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>>GavCo+(OP)
I'm a gay man and I think we are going to far with this PC nonsense. I had a hard time growing up in the 90s knowing I was different and being tormented by my peers, so I'm happy to see gay "normalized" in current pop culture more because I think it teaches the younger generation to accept themselves and others. However I feel that it's going to far, for example I started reading a novel the other day but gave up a third of the way through because every character was some form of LGBT or interracial or something. It made the story seem fake and unrealistic. I think editing classic books is wrong even if it is covering up something like hate or bigotry. History forgotten is history bound to repeat itself.

>>double+ls1
In the world of Fahrenheit 451, Captain Beatty explains to Montag why books were banned. He says that before books were banned, they caused many societal problems. Beatty claimed that because there were so many different types of people in society, almost any book could be seen as offensive to any particular group of people. For this reason, authors began to water down their content so it was innocuous, and offended no one. Over time, it slowly evolved to censorship and eventually their firemen started regular book burnings.

When I was younger, I found Bradbury’s book to be boring and mundane. I thought it was ridiculous to mainly blame political correctness for censorship. Yet, years later here we are now seeing Dahl’s work being slowly being destroyed. Ray was very prescient. We live in interesting times.

The only thing Bradbury didn’t see was that one of the incentives of this type of censorship is to help maintain copyright.

>>chaost+3O1
It really ought to be illegal to rewrite a book and portray it as the original authors work.

If you want to make your version ... assuming copyright allows ... sure ... just don't pretend it is the work of the original author.

Imagine if people did this to laws: "we re-wrote it to suit our prejudices, but since we published it as if it was the original work ... thats all ok ... right?"

>>pg_123+CU1
Agree, although it gets tricky with translations.

For childrens litterature there is a tradition of re-tellings of classics. But this seem to present as the original, which is problematic.

Some jurisdictions have the concept of moral rigts, which mean you cannot alter an original work even if you own the copyright or it is public domain.