Roald Dahl books being censored

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Sarah75 Mon 20-Feb-23 11:24:44

I gather the language in some books by Roald Dahl is being altered, as the words are considered inappropriate / offensive nowadays. What do you think about this?
amp.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/20/roald-dahl-books-rewrites-criticism-language-altered

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BlueBelle Mon 20-Feb-23 11:27:15

There is actually a thread about this in News and politics Sarah just in case you don’t get many answers

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GagaJo Mon 20-Feb-23 11:28:24

Rather than have the books pulled from publication, I'd say changing the wording to fit modern belief systems is probably sensible. Dahl was a known anti semitic and probably a racist too. However, I use his work in my teaching and agree it would be a shame to lose some of his writings due to unacceptable language.

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Sarah75 Mon 20-Feb-23 11:29:00

Oh! Sorry. Hadn’t seen that. I’ll pop over there!

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Sarah75 Mon 20-Feb-23 11:32:24

Already a thread about this -

www.gransnet.com/forums/news_and_politics/1321418-Censorship-or-rewriting

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BlueBelle Mon 20-Feb-23 11:33:58

Easily done Sarah done it myself more than oncec

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