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[return to "Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books"]
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. slotht+XY[view] [source] 2023-02-19 01:36:26
>>bko+h5
> not calling people crazy

Wait until they realize that every single fucking insult in existence is equally "able-ist", by definition, or otherwise offensive in some way. Is the expectation that we slowly disallow insults in culture? No, it's going to be arbitrary whitelisting. Stupid (there I go being ableist).

A change like this doesn't work as intended without fundamentally changing the narrative. If a character was insulting someone, they should still be insulting someone. Want the story to be different? Write a different fucking book.

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3. soheil+7F4[view] [source] 2023-02-20 12:00:22
>>slotht+XY
If you're right then "able-ist" itself would be an insult and won't be allowed, thus it won't be possible to disallow insults. qed
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4. slotht+li5[view] [source] 2023-02-20 16:35:40
>>soheil+7F4
Able-ist is a criticism.
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