People on the left are apoplectic about banning books for kids, yet here they are literally rewriting them. That is every bit as bad as what they claim is happening with banning books.
The worst edits IMO are the ones just marked removed
Yet the original versions are still around for those who prefer them.
Is it not okay to be able to pick a 2023 version, or a 1960s version depending on your own preferences?
How is that nearly as bad as banning a book?
The only problem I have with changes like this is if there's a lack of transparency, which I would to some degree agree is the case here.
This reads like a side-note tacked onto the end of your thoughts.
To people that have a problem with it, it's the entire goddamn point. I'm fully aware when I'm picking up a greek tradegy I'm reading a translated interpretation. Now the reader is being denied the chance to see how the author wrote and talked straight from their writings. If the author's use of language isn't pleasant or moral by my standards today, I don't want to be misled to think that the new way is how they've always written.
It's immoral to sanitise the past for children and lead them to believe that we've always had today's moralities figured out, to children unaware of the edits, they're being deprived of the fact that society evolves and fights and works these things out.
If they're unaware that society can update it's morals (because some nitwit decided to slyly change language in a book in a way that's not transparent), maybe they'll think they don't have the power to change anything themselves.