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>>GavCo+(OP)
This is fucking outrageous!

This is precisely the sort authoritarianism that I was taught to fear around the time I first read his books. Editing old books to comply with the current regime was one of the things that the bad guys did. That was one of the things our ancestors fought against in two world wars.

What would Ronald Dahl say about this? How would you feel if they did this to your writing long after you are gone?

Erasing Rudyard Kipling? WTF did he do wrong? His poetry was inspirational to me, as a child.

Good people cannot allow this to go unchallenged.

Edit: forgive me for expressing emotion.

>>irthom+Pm
I agree that they shouldn't have removed it, it's up for rational thinking human beings of all ages to confront the reality of the past even if we don't like them. It's how we learn and grow (also like a kid would actually understand or conflate them in this modern time).

But to answer your question, I assume it's because Rudyard Kipling wrote "The White Man's Burden" (1899). It drives people apoplectic, although anyone with any history knowledge would realize that post wwI the Japanese applied an even stricter interpretation of this philosophy to Micronesia (obviously the white part wasn't the important part.