{"id":1856336,"date":"2023-02-22T09:35:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T14:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1856336"},"modified":"2023-02-22T09:37:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T14:37:34","slug":"heres-why-roald-dahls-books-are-getting-an-extreme-woke-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-why-roald-dahls-books-are-getting-an-extreme-woke-makeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Why Roald Dahl\u2019s Books Are Getting An Extreme Woke Makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fheres-why-roald-dahls-books-are-getting-an-extreme-woke-makeover%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1856336&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Roald-Dahl-Willy-Wonka-books-censored-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>These days, it&#8217;s rare for the Left and Right to agree on anything.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yet news that author Roald Dahl&#8217;s books are getting an extreme woke makeover did the trick \u2026 to a point.<\/p>\n<p>Together with the publisher who published the works of the late author, The Dahl Estate agreed to improve the master&#8217;s work to make it more inclusive and less triggering.<\/p>\n<p>This British writer is the author of many beloved books, some which have been made into famous films like &#8220;Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory&#8221;  &#8220;James and the Giant Peach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dahl&#8217;s altered language is laughable, there is no doubt. Piers Morgan, a British pundit whose ideology can be hard to pin down, is Piers Morgan. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/20\/roald-dahl-censorship-more-akin-to-chinas-cultural-revolution-than-supposed-democracies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gives some chilling examples<\/a> The new &#8220;improved&#8221; Dahl passages.<\/p>\n<p>Dahl&#8217;s 1983 novel &#8220;The Witches,&#8221; A young boy grows up in a world controlled by witches. There have been 59 modifications.<\/p>\n<p>The word &#8220;chambermaid&#8221; It is &#8220;cleaner,&#8221; &#8220;great flock of ladies&#8221; It has been changed to &#8220;great group of ladies,&#8221; &#8220;You must be mad, woman!&#8221; It is now &#8220;You must be out of your mind!&#8221;  &#8220;the old hag&#8221; It has been modified to &#8220;the old crow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even &#8220;foul bald-headed females&#8221; To &#8220;foul females&#8221; Despite the fact that the witches in the book are all bald.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the image.<\/p>\n<p>The usual suspects \u2013 conservatives \u2013 are outraged at the woke censorship. While the Right stands united against modern-day censorship while the Left cheers it on, many on both sides of the aisle are supportive.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives are in good company this time around.<\/p>\n<p>Salman Rushdie was a literary titan who literally gave his life to defend free speech. He slammed revisionist editing. Rushdie, who survived the attack. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2023\/feb\/06\/salman-rushdie-update-first-interview-fatwa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An attack brutal last year<\/a> resulting in him losing sight in one eye, and chronic nerve damage. He was called the move &#8220;absurd censorship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Roald Dahl is not an angel, but this is absurdcensorship. Puffin Books, the Dahl estate, and all of their censorship should be shamed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sdjMfBr7WW\">https:\/\/t.co\/sdjMfBr7WW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Salman Rushdie (@SalmanRushdie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SalmanRushdie\/status\/1627075835525210113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where things get interesting.<\/p>\n<p>The far-Left Nation similarly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/roald-dahl-edited\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decried the censorship.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The beloved author&#8217;s books are being edited by their publisher to suit contemporary sensibilities. That robs us of the author&#8217;s vision\u2014and any sense of history.<\/p>\n<p>The culprits behind the changes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/02\/21\/1158347261\/roald-dahl-books-changed-offensive-words\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refuse to comment<\/a> on the matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Puffin and The Roald Dahl Story Company, which manages the copyrights of Dahl&#8217;s books and works with publishers, didn&#8217;t respond to NPR&#8217;s requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>That cowardice is common for modern censors. They can&#8217;t defend their actions.<\/p>\n<p>The bigger question remains.\u00a0Why is anyone surprised?<\/p>\n<p>Sensitivity readers are now an entrenched part of the literary world. Works in other media have been censored or removed entirely, from sitcoms with blackface moments to films like &#8220;Song of the South&#8221; and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Love_You,_Daddy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;I Love You, Daddy.&#8221;<\/a> At best, challenging art now arrives with &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/trigger-warnings-explained\/\">warning labels<\/a>&#8221; to make sure we don&#8217;t fall under their deep, dark spell.<\/p>\n<p>And, when the woke mob erased some of Dr. Seuss&#8217;s canon two years ago, western culture collectively yawned.\u00a0Some, like the execrable Stephen Colbert, actually\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/stephen-colbert-rand-paul-richard-marx\/\">cheered the move<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t anyone think censorship would get better in this environment?<\/p>\n<p>It may be encouraging that Dahl&#8217;s book sales are spiking at the moment, with consumers eager to snatch up his work before the Thought Police has its way with it. That doesn&#8217;t change the fact that Puffin Books will produce watered-down versions of Dahl&#8217;s work moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>And, for many, those stories will be the official Dahl language.<\/p>\n<p>The woke revolution is getting so strong, so unavoidable that others on the Left are starting to sound the alarm. The film festival circuit is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/woke-film-festivals-problematic-sundance\/\">feeling the censorial heat<\/a>, drawing concern from the typically liberal Variety.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times recently published a vigorous op-ed from former Book Editor Pamela Paul calling out woke&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/26\/opinion\/american-dirt-book-publishing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nefarious impact on the literary world.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only thing surprising about the Dahl extreme makeover is that it didn&#8217;t happen already. 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