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>>GavCo+(OP)
Those of us who grew up near various religious communities in the second half of the twentieth century are familiar with the edited and abridged versions of media made to be more palatable to the morals of whichever community, as well as the scandals over media which were an affront to them for whatever reason.

Obviously, a publisher committed to those communities and who can get the rights to do so will make a “clean” versions for them. For better or worse, it happens all the time.

The only news here is in whose morals are behind expressed in the edits, because we had gotten used to it just being a religion thing and forgot that secular morals can run just as puritanical.

>>swatco+MR
> and forgot that secular morals can run just as puritanical

I'd suggest that it is a new religion being satisfied here, that of 'wokeism'.

>>oska+mY
'Authoritarian Progressivism' is a better term going forward I think. It better specifies the set of beliefs and the formality is harder to dismiss.

>>boppo1+LY
Cheers. I put the word in quotes to indicate my use was not necessarily an endorsement of the term. And even though it is the most commonly used label and probably the one that's going to stick, I do like your alternative. Yours is probably a better one for discussion of the movement in more academic or formal contexts.