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Telling the Brits to pound sand on censorship
French, Dutch, and US publishers have told the Brits that they will not be changing Roald Dahl’s books to make them more ‘sensitive’. A spokesperson for Dahl’s U.S. publisher Penguin Young Readers told PW that there are no plans for similar revisions in the U.S. “Roald Dahl books published by Penguin Young Readers and distributed… Continue reading
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Irony is certainly a bitch…
You never know what you’re going to find when you shake your ancestral tree. I’m sure Angela Davis, a Marxist professor at the University of California wasn’t expecting what she found. “Davis is one of the founders of Critical Race Theory as an academic subject and discipline. She is widely quoted in newer books from… Continue reading
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Erasing literature
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… Continue reading
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Speaking out against the stupidity of men in women's sports
In England and Wales, they are allowing a middle-aged man to play cricket against girls as young as 12 years old. This guy has already injured two people, including an umpire and another player, who was out of the game for months. Hopefully good sense will win out in this case like it did in women’s… Continue reading
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WTF in Spain?–And I mean that literally
Spain has decided that bestiality is okee-dokee as long as the animal being raped doesn’t have to go to the vet. And yes, I use the word rape instead of some other euphemism. Because animals cannot give consent anymore than children can. in 2019, 8.2% of Spanish veterinarians had seen suspected examples of sexually abused… Continue reading
(A.K.A. Non-Original Rants)
–Co-opting good stuff from all over the ‘Net and maybe some original thoughts—ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE
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