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<\/p>\nIn the George Orwell novel \u201c1984\u201d, the protagonist\u2019s job is to identify doubleplusungood news and proclamations and have them rewritten to a more contemporary understanding of the truth while the old versions go away down the \u201cmemory hole\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Rewriting past publications and hiding the fact that they are re-writes, effectively \u201cmemory holing\u201d, is going on now, and at the behest of the woke mob and \u201csensitivity readers\u201d. \u00a0 The stealth \u201ccorrection\u201d<\/a> of Roald Dahl\u2019s works caused quite a stir.<\/p>\n \u201cAugustus Gloop is no longer fat, Mrs Twit is no longer fearfully ugly, and the Oompa-Loompas have gone gender-neutral in new editions of Roald Dahl\u2019s beloved stories.<\/p>\n \u201cThe publisher, Puffin, has made hundreds of changes to the original text, removing many of Dahl\u2019s colourful descriptions and making his characters less grotesque.<\/p>\n \u201cThe review of Dahl\u2019s language was undertaken to ensure that the books \u2018can continue to be enjoyed by all today\u2019, Puffin said.<\/p>\n \u201cReferences to physical appearance have been heavily edited. The word \u2018fat\u2019 has been removed from every book – Augustus Gloop in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory may still look like a ball of dough, but can now only be described as \u2018enormous\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the same story, the Oompa-Loompas are no longer \u2018tiny\u2019, \u2018titchy\u2019 or \u2018no higher than my knee\u2019 but merely small. And where once they were \u2018small men\u2019, they are now \u2018small people\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cPassages not written by Dahl have also been added. In The Witches, a paragraph explaining that witches are bald beneath their wigs ends with the new line: \u2018There are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs and there is certainly nothing wrong with that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Puffin was caught red handed and promised<\/a> to undo this. They aren\u2019t sorry for what they did\u2026 just that they got caught.<\/p>\n And this is hardly an isolated incident: James Bond will be going politically correct<\/a>, at least as far as they can get away with it:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cJames Bond novels have been rewritten to remove a number of racial references from Ian Fleming\u2019s work, The Telegraph can reveal.<\/p>\n \u201cAll of the author\u2019s thrillers featuring 007 are set to be reissued in April to mark 70 years since Casino Royale, the first book in the series, was published.<\/p>\n \u201cIan Fleming Publications Ltd, the company that owns the literary rights to the author\u2019s work, commissioned a review by sensitivity readers of the classic texts under its control.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Telegraph understands that a disclaimer accompanying the reissued texts will read: \u2018This book was written at a time when terms and attitudes which might be considered offensive by modern readers were commonplace.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018A number of updates have been made in this edition, while keeping as close as possible to the original text and the period in which it is set.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cThe changes to Fleming\u2019s books result in some depictions of black people being reworked or removed.<\/p>\n \u201cDated references to other ethnicities remain, such as Bond\u2019s racial terms for east Asian people and the spy\u2019s disparaging views of Oddjob, Goldfinger\u2019s Korean henchman.<\/p>\n \u201cReferences to the \u2018sweet tang of rape\u2019, \u2018blithering women\u2019 failing to do a \u2018man\u2019s work\u2019, and homosexuality being a \u2018stubborn disability\u2019 also remain.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the sensitivity reader-approved version of Live and Let Die, Bond\u2019s assessment that would-be African criminals in the gold and diamond trades are \u2018pretty law-abiding chaps I should have thought, except when they\u2019ve drunk too much\u2019 becomes \u2013 \u2018pretty law-abiding chaps I should have thought.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n You can bet that this is happening to other works of literature, and non-literature as well. \u00a0 With electronic libraries you \u201cborrow\u201d that can be stealth deleted or changed secretly without notice, the only way to defend against this will be old physical copies.<\/p>\n Pictured: A Refuge from Wokeness.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the George Orwell novel \u201c1984\u201d, the protagonist\u2019s job is to identify doubleplusungood news and proclamations and have them rewritten to a more contemporary understanding of the truth while the old versions go away down the \u201cmemory hole\u201d. Rewriting past … Continue reading \n
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