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1. faerie+dT[view] [source] 2023-02-19 00:41:32
>>GavCo+(OP)
Of every change the ones to Augustus Gloop not being called "enormously fat" and instead being called "enormous" are the most jarring as his story is a moral parable about the dangers of gluttony. Even if you think such moral parables are wrong, the phrasing change isn't simply just aesthetic, it's fundamentally changing the story's narrative.
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2. PKop+K41[view] [source] 2023-02-19 02:20:40
>>faerie+dT
You're making a general argument against revisionism but you seem to miss the point that the specific critique of gluttony / being fat / "fat shaming" is an aspect of the current morality that is imposing itself in many corners of culture.

It is forbidden to say being fat is unhealthy, undesirable or to pathologize it at all.

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3. max_en+zi1[view] [source] 2023-02-19 04:23:33
>>PKop+K41
Well this is blowing up. Future historians might have to revise the name of the Fat Man device.
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