{"id":1918544,"date":"2023-04-24T10:26:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T14:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/censors-come-for-p-g-wodehouse-proving-they-dont-actually-want-to-learn-from-the-past\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T10:28:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T14:28:23","slug":"censors-come-for-p-g-wodehouse-proving-they-dont-actually-want-to-learn-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/censors-come-for-p-g-wodehouse-proving-they-dont-actually-want-to-learn-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"P.G. Wodehouse Under Fire From Censors: A Reminder That History Repeats Itself."},"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\">24<\/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%2Fcensors-come-for-p-g-wodehouse-proving-they-dont-actually-want-to-learn-from-the-past%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=1918544&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--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Hold on to your hats, folks. The woke censors have set their sights on P.G. Wodehouse, the comedic genius of the last century. His publisher is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/penguin-removes-unacceptable-words-from-p-g-wodehouse-novels-adds-trigger-warnings-for-outdated-language\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">editing<\/a> some of his books, including the beloved &#8220;Jeeves and Wooster&#8221; series, to remove content that might offend modern readers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a sad day when even the likes of Jeeves can&#8217;t save Bertie from the censors. I had hoped that the humor in Wodehouse&#8217;s writing would be enough to deter these miserable scolds, but alas, they have infiltrated the publishing industry and are determined to sanitize the past.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-933293460\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1b3211453740bc451ba1fdf2ed8db556 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1b3211453740bc451ba1fdf2ed8db556\"><\/div>\n<p>But fear not, dear readers. I have already secured the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBlakeEPPC\/status\/1647313632466972674\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complete collection<\/a> of Wodehouse&#8217;s works. They can&#8217;t rewrite what&#8217;s on my shelves. However, I worry that this is just the beginning. The woke censors have a tendency to go too far, as we&#8217;ve seen with their clumsy rewrites of Roald Dahl&#8217;s books. They always find new sources of offense to erase, and there&#8217;s no telling where they&#8217;ll stop.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Wodehouse&#8217;s Works Should Remain Untouched<\/h2>\n<p>Wodehouse&#8217;s books should be left as they are, not only because of their comedic value, but also because they provide an opportunity for an honest discussion about the history of racism. Wodehouse&#8217;s use of the n-word, for example, illustrates how the word&#8217;s meaning has evolved over time. In his books, the word was used casually and without malice, reflecting the norms of the time. This is an important point to consider when discussing the history of racism.<\/p>\n<p>Wodehouse&#8217;s treatment of race is nuanced and much more complex than the woke censors give him credit for. His characters may use racial stereotypes and tropes, but there is little animus in them. In fact, Wodehouse&#8217;s works could be used as a starting point for a thoughtful discussion about the history of racism, if only the censors were willing to engage in such a discussion.<\/p>\n<p>But alas, the woke scolds would rather denounce and erase the past than try to understand it. They claim to want to learn from the past, but their actions suggest otherwise. They are more interested in lecturing others than in engaging in a meaningful dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope that we can hold on to the unedited works of Wodehouse and other great authors, and that future generations will be able to appreciate them in their original form.<\/p>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-f2362c74923410afcbd9b737e9fe7b9a fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-f2362c74923410afcbd9b737e9fe7b9a\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">   Nathanael Blake is a senior contributor to The Federalist and a postdoctoral fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/british\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">British<\/a><\/li>\n<li class \n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not even Jeeves could save Bertie this time. The censors have come for P.G. Wodehouse, the greatest comic author of the last century. His publisher is rewriting some of his books, including books from the iconic \u201cJeeves and Wooster\u201d series, to excise content deemed offensive to modern readers. I feared this was coming, but hoped<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":1918545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[6041,4919,11062,25047,18134,11715,25048],"class_list":["post-1918544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-censors","tag-history","tag-itself","tag-p-g","tag-reminder","tag-repeats","tag-wodehouse"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1918545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}