‘Welcome to the modern times we live in’: Offensive words removed from Roald Dahl's books 

What an insult to his memory

If an author's book is changed, it is no longer that author's book. I wouldn't buy anything but the original work done by that author.

We are becoming truly pathetic. Yet you can trust that there is someone, somewhere that takes great pride in this.

We're witnessing the destruction of language

Let’s hope they flop

This is the beginning of thought control.

Boycott and cancel the publishers who's done this

I was beginning for George Orwell's 1984 to be fiction again. Now we need Fahrenheit 451 to be fiction again. Very sad times.

If you don’t like someone’s book or art simply don’t buy it or read it or look at it. So over people trying to recreate this world in their image.

There is a question here concerning the infringement of copyright laws. If you copy and redistribute the original, are you infringing upon the laws, given the publishers are distributing adulterated copies, not true to the original works of the author?

This can only end in war or dystopia.

Well I’ll stick to me old ones. That say horrid words like HE SHE WOMAN( the worst of all ) . I hope sales of the new book fails miserably it’s insanity what’s going on . When is someone gonna tell the king he has no clothes on

But remember they don't care about this stuff because its not important. They justwant to rewrite history.

I was wondering when they’d get to him. He’s wonderfully blunt and he’s not for every child. But, he’s not easy if you’re “sensitive.”

Enormous in my opinion sounds worse than fat

The ministry of truth is alive and well in the year 2023. Words are being replaced in real time. By the time I finish this sentence words I have not yet considered will be replaced by words not yet thought.

When did they stop putting the novel 1984 into the English Curriculum at high school?

Truly disgusting. It's just getting worse and worse.

Next they'll have a shot at re-writing Isaac Newton's 'The Principia'. Heavenly bodies will be thrown off their orbits and dynamical chaos will ensue.

I remember someone else that enjoys piling literature and burning it.

I'm fat and ugly so I approve of this censorship, I can now show my enormous, beastly face to the world each day with confidence knowing children will never learn those two adjectives.

So ridiculous, who in the hell is so pathetic they're offended by these things. They're the ones who should be changed or cancelled

If ‘ugly’ must be removed, so should be, ‘beautiful’!

1984 is really starting to look like a prophecy rather than a thriller.

Is there not something illegal under the copy right laws to stop this defacing of works of art.

Does this mean we can call gender neutral people Oompa-Loompas?

I love offensive words, they release a lot of frustration when I use them. I’m a female born a long time from yesterday and grew up with these books. Oh get a grip show me someone who doesn’t say offensive words even if they don’t share it aloud. No never this little black duck ain’t caving in for anyone 🫵

Mediocre people messing with works of art they could never come up with.

It's unbelievable that drag queen transvestites can do storytime for kids but they can't read Roald Dahl unless it's been Post Modernised by language fascists.

Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me. Stuffed up snowflakes.

anything kids should be watching can be found on vhs

Harrison Bergeron should be required reading in elementary schools. Brave New World should be mandatory in middle school. And Heathers (the original) should be mandatory in high school. 2 books and a movie could end wokeness overnight.

Ah crap it's only February... I was hoping this was an April Fool's prank. What complete and utter rubbish. Thank goodness my kids have the originals already because I won't ever buy the new ones. Wow I never thought I'd live to see a world where free speech was a thing of the past.

Change one thing and another and in the end everything will be changing... Where is the trouble?? Everything works fine and already need to change ... Something reminds me ?? It already was. And everyone knows the ending. And so it starts with small steps. . People never learn.

This world has gone down the shitter!

Enormous and beastly are still 'offensive'. Actually, beastly seems to be more harsh. Well done 👏

This should be banned.

The world is crazy what is wrong with the things my children grew up with. Then they can’t be called books by the people that wrote them. We have gone mad thank God I am really old and nearly out of the madness

Feminists rewriting classics to suit their ideology. What he really meant to say was this. Change text to suit desired woke ideology. I remember watching George RR Martin talking to a group of fans and this rapid feminist on the front row badgering him on why he wrote his characters the way he did and why were women protrayed this way and that, why there wasn't more woke ideology in the script . I was thinking go write your own material with all that female rubbish in it.

Ridiculous. This world has gone completely mad!

Changing August Gloomp from the Fat kid to Enormous surely that’s more offensive. ? How does making the Oompha Loomphas identify as “they-them” when they are a fantasy character. Are we going to have to have every book ever written change all males and females to they-them, because changing an Oompha Loompha seems an enormous stretch of the imagination. I’m trying to think of the song they sing to see if it actually has any gender pronoun in it and I can’t recall. Does it mean their face makeup for future films and plays will have to be done to make sure none of them look male or female. Next we will have Christmas Elves will be TheyThem and the ToothFairy will be cancelled because the word fairy generates the imagination to think of a tiny female flying around with wings and a tutu. Will Jack Frost become a theythem. I’m guessing Thomas the Tank Engine has cancelled or removed or renamed The Fat Controller - is he now a theythem called the Enormous Controller. Making all these changes will impact the story, it will impact how sentences flow. In The Witches it’s removing “they turned white with fear” apparently using colour of white or black is banned. It’s also adding in a sentence to explain that it isn’t just witches who wear wigs to cover their bald heads, but someone’s women wear wigs for all sorts of reasons without being a witch. Hmm, yes reading that within the context of the story will make perfect sense…not… The world has gone mad, mad I say, utterly mad.

That's ridiculous

We are truly living in the last days!

Bloody ridiculous

Look, just keeping getting boosted and trust the science !

Beat go change Shakespeare as well

This is from the UK not from the NZ.

Offensive to say certain things however it’s still fine to call people with red hair names which can affect mental health in young children for years

This is on a par with the Nazis burning books by authors they did not like

TRUNCHBALL!!!

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