.piersmorgan: Censorship of Roald Dahl is more akin to China’s cultural revolution than supposed democracies
“Words matter,” begins a publisher’s note appended to the copyright page of the latest editions of Roald Dahl’s iconic children’s books.Dahl knew that better than anyone as he was one of the world’s greatest wordsmiths ever and took extraordinary care over every word he wrote.
In perhaps the most egregious example yet of book publisher censorship, “sensitivity readers” were hired to trawl through his entire body of work and identify hundreds of his words and phrases that might be triggering to the easily offended.newspaper revealed that “language relating to weight, mental health, violence, gender and race” has been edited, cut, and in some cases, completely rewritten.
The word “chambermaid” becomes “cleaner,” “great flock of ladies” is changed to “great group of ladies,” “You must be mad, woman!” is now “You must be out of your mind!” and “the old hag” is altered to “the old crow.” The Telegraph reports that in “Matilda,” Miss Trunchbull’s “great horsey face” is now just “face,” “eight nutty little idiots” has been changed to “eight nutty little boys,” and a reference to a character “turning white” has now become “quite pale.”Why? Are kids not allowed to be told there are mothers and fathers in the world anymore?
For instance, the character of Augustus Gloop from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” is no longer described as “fat.” Now he is referred to as “enormous,” as if this is less likely to cause upset.
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