Midwest Chick's Place

 Something that’s more insidious that just outright banning books is rewriting them.  That’s what’s happening to Roald Dahl’s books.  They are being reworked by ‘sensitivity’ experts.

Roald Dahl’s famed children’s books are being scrubbed by so-called sensitivity experts to remove language they deem offensive, including “fat” or “ugly” characters — and making the beloved Oompa Loompas of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” gender neutral.

Publisher Puffin tapped sensitivity readers to rewrite hundreds of sections of the late author’s texts to ensure his work can continue to be enjoyed — and not offend — today’s more woke audience, The Telegraph reported.

So Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Matilda have all been hit with the stealth banning, aka, sensitivity rewrites.

It’s why paper books are still important.  Dictionaries, encyclopedias, literature.

First they came for Dahl, who’s next?

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”–George Orwell