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1. bko+h5[view] [source] 2023-02-18 18:42:51
>>GavCo+(OP)
Here's a good list of changes. Most are about removing any references to ugly or fat. But also other strange things like changing the author's Matilda likes to read to include Jane Austin and John Steinbeck, not calling people crazy, swapping screeching to annoying, removing brothers and sisters to favor "siblings" and using "folks" instead of "ladies and gentlemen"

https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1626860237104857089

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2. bitwiz+IM[view] [source] 2023-02-18 23:50:36
>>bko+h5
Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling wrote favorably about colonialism; they were replaced with more agreeable authors.

Use of gendered language is marginalizing to nonbinary people.

It's easy to figure out why these changes are being made in particular, once you take a position of empathy.

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3. twoodf+wQ[view] [source] 2023-02-19 00:19:39
>>bitwiz+IM
Joseph Conrad wrote favorably of colonialism?!

Have you read Heart of Darkness?

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4. photoc+u11[view] [source] 2023-02-19 01:54:54
>>twoodf+wQ
Well, he said the British were not as bad as the Belgians, I guess... so he must be censored? It's all become satire piled on satire to the point I was entertaining the notion that this story was some kind of early April Fool's edition or something like that.
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