someone in a podcast was saying that one needs to collect paper books, not ebooks, to preserve the book before the censors destroy them.
I thought that sounded a bit paranoid but now I am reading that someone decided to censor Ronald Dahl's children's books to make them politically correct and not hurt the feelings of the kids.
'I’d knock her flat' becomes the much more diplomatic 'I’d give her a right talking to,' for instance." "'You saucy beast!' becomes 'You trickster!'
Best comment to her blogpost:
J L Oliver said... The queen has declared, “Let them read about sex acts and gender unicorns! But save them from the saucy beast!”
This is on top of censoring Dr. Seuss for racism.
so wait till they come for Shakespeare. Oh someone already has.
Mr Bowdler, as in Bowdlerism:
verb (used with object),
to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
So even in those days, there were Karens willing to censor stuff they did not approve of.
Or maybe I should say Henriettas. From the ChapelHillBookBlog:
in his book, Dr. Bowdler’s Legacy: A History of Expurgated Books in England and America, Noel Perrin convincingly argues that the 1807 edition was actually edited by Thomas’s sister, Henrietta Bowdler (1750-1830), whose name was omitted from the title page.
By the time the first edition of The Family Shakespeare appeared, Henrietta was already a published author and a well-known bluestocking. Perrin estimates that Henrietta excised about ten percent of Shakespeare’s words, taking special care to eliminate any hint of religious irreverence.
yes. the more things change the more they stay the same.
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Update: it's worse in the UK where an anti terrorism taxpayer funded group has a list of bad books:
Yes Minister and The Thick of It were among the satire programmes flagged by beleaguered counter-terror Prevent scheme for 'encouraging far-right sympathies'
And now they came for comedies like Yes Minister, and classics like Shakespeare, the Lord of the Rings, 1984,Chaucer, Milton, Tennyson, Kipling and Edmund Burke.
The report even highlighted the BBC’s 1990s political thriller House Of Cards, John le Carre’s seminal spy trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and Sharpe, the ITV drama set in the Napoleonic wars.
Other books, shows and films on list Beowulf The Canterbury Tales The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare Paradise Lost The Four Feathers Lady Hamilton The Dam Busters The Bridge On The River Kwai The Great Escape Zulu Civilisation Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy House Of Cards Trilogy Sharpe Ray Mears’ Bushcraft Survival David Starkey’s Monarchy.
It said the works of fiction were ‘key texts’ for ‘white nationalists/supremacists’.
Like these two:
headsup Instapundit.
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