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.
I'd suggest that it is a new religion being satisfied here, that of 'wokeism'.
Who is “we”? Those of us who remember the stories of, say, every English edition of Mein Kampf (every one of which either deleted from or added to, often both, the German edition for propaganda purposes, whether it was making the Nazi program more palatable to the West or less), did not.
Me? Rural northern Arkansas. Dry county. Unaffected by these edited/abridged version of media.
In other words, Han shot first in my day, sonny.
It certainly is a cult since it works exactly like one, it has rules, a unquestionable creed ("diversity and inclusion"), struggle sessions where members have to admit their "crimes" in public like "their privileges", a hierarchy between its members (the pyramid of oppression), a caste that is above any criticism whatsoever, blasphemy, lists of forbidden words, and shunning of its members when they do something deemed "insensitive".
In any case, you must at least remember Wal-mart’s role in demanding “clean” versions of rap and hip hop content (and punk) as those genres went mainstream. That was happening at a national level and persists to this day in all of our streaming services.
The genres had underground roots and artists were not devoted to satisfying the word or theme preferences of the Walton family’s target demographic, but producers and studios knew that obliging them with alternate versions was a compromise that paid worthwhile dividends.
“Adjusted for television” or for play over the radio were broadcast standards that still exist.
Hell, I’m somewhat thankful for them. We had an issue at one of the youth sports games last fall. Music played between innings. The quote that came out of that one was, “I thought E meant ‘everyone’.
Yes, I know stuff is adjusted for broadcast, “find a stranger in the alps” still cracks me up. That’s not the same as not being able to describe tractors as black, or fat people as fat.