Censorship in Roald Dahl books considered ‘cultural vandalism’: Piers Morgan
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- Опубликовано: 20 фев 2023
- Puffin’s decision to censor phrases and words within Roald Dahl books has been reviled on all sides as “cultural vandalism," says Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan.
The changes include swapping Cloud Men to Cloud People in ‘James and the Giant Peach’, a line describing tractors as black in ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ has been deleted, and the removal of the word fat as an adjective for characters in ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’.
He says the changes are an attempt to “re-write history” in a way that does the publication a disservice.
“It’s insidious the way that these ‘wokies’ are gradually airbrushing the world and re-drawing it in their own image, with their own world view.”
Exactly right. I’m buying as many of the original books right now to preserve them from the butchers. That the authors estate agreed to this travesty is appalling.
Good idea, Marnie. I already have the whole set, and so has my daughter. I read Dahl's books to my granddaughters. And now this bullshit by the sensitivity idiots is in play, will continue to do so...reading them the old versions.
the body snatchers have got them
You’re not doing that at all you slobbering fool
We who believe in liberty and free expression need to secure our heritage so it can be passed on to future generations (assuming that is if the new Puritans ever do actually reach puberty). If the wave of revolutionary zeal ever passes, we needs to preserve copies of the originals and eventually destroy the censored versions, or better still put them in a museum dedicated to Woke Puritanism so people can see where indoctrinated madness can take them .
@@billyliar1614 The only puritanical idiots are on the right.
Cultural vandalism.... Great term
Changing other people's intellectual property should be punishable on the same level as perjury.
EXACTLY!
The thing is though, it's not Roald Dahl's intellectual property any more....
@@woopimagpie The fact that Roald Dahl is dead, or that rights may have been transferred to others, does not change the fact that it is Roald Dahl's intellectual work.
I have felt sick all day after hearing about this.
Try to cope
You and me both. This is absolutely disgraceful.
@@Kelly_Kapowski don’t tell me u support this crap
@@lucy2766Pierse Morgan spoke in support of the great classics and exposed pernicious and devious woke cancel culture.
@@lucy2766 Funnily enough, acceptable behaviour and standards change over time. It used to be acceptable to call indigenous people racial slurs. It used to be acceptable for women to be banned from voting.
*If you’re so tiny minded that you can’t understand that also applies to this Ronald Dahl story, then educate yourself.* Embarrassing. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Why are they listened to, and allowed to get away with all of this? The world has gone mad, and I'm so glad I won't be around to see what happens in years to come, if this is what the next generation is all about.
They'd be far better putting their energy into things that really matter, instead of trying to rewrite history because they've nothing better to do!! It makes me so sad.
This is INFURIATING. All these pea-brained censors destroying the works of great authors. Let us identify these villains and publicly shame them.
No one is destroying anything you pearl clutching, hysterical cretin.
Let's lock them up!
Let's feed them to the Hornswoggles and vermicious knids!
@@littlegojira7930 Perfect solution! Great suggestion!
@@GeoCoppens Or, put them in stocks in public squares so we can throw rotten produce at them.
I read all his books before I was 12 ....in a time when we weren't pathetic
its all relative
Same.
Couldn't have said it better myself
No just openly racist and hateful
@@Deondre_Clark that’s why they are not pathetic.
I’d rather be called fat than enormous! My kids loved the books and won’t be getting woke replacements!
"Cuz every woman would be quite happy being called a beast...just don't call them ugly!" 🤣
The Augustus Gloop in the 1971 film looks almost slender compared to some kids today.
Kids today are absolute porkers
😂😂😂😂😂
Is it fair to take them to court over false advertising? I mean, if they label it as written by Roald Dahl? It no longer is his words so it isn't accurate to sell it as such. Just wondering...
Interesting idea.
I think it all depends on whether they have permission of the owners (the family?) to do so.
A very good point.🇨🇦🇬🇧
@HS Christina well shame on them too!
Good point. We should all try it
Wouldn't it be nice if we could cancel those who cancel, or try to cancel, our culture.
All they are trying to do is cater to those oversenstive wimps.
Given that this is a marketing ploy by Puffin (they aren't even deleting the originals, they're just offering these updated versions for those who might prefer them) I'd say it's working rather well given the amount of publicity it's getting. Just watch all the originals fly off the shelves now, Puffin's marketing dept will all be getting a payrise.
@@woopimagpie But read my last reply about cancelling the cancel culture once and for all.
@@brianmorris8045 But nothing is being cancelled. Puffin are just offering these new versions AS WELL as the originals, for those who might prefer them. And wouldn't it be a surprise if the new ones outsold the originals? Has it not occurred to you that the marketing Dept at Puffin might have researched this and done something very clever? You appear to have fallen for it quite thoroughly.
@@brianmorris8045 Further to your idea on cancel culture, the ones who get cancelled are insensitive selfish hypocritical assholes. If you're finding yourself on the wrong side of that, perhaps you might need to look in the mirror and ask a few questions, the first of which is: "Am I the asshole?"
@@woopimagpie The fact that people through that terrible disease, political correctness, want to change anything in books to please the oversensitive twits, is alarming. Whether you say Puffin did it as a publicity stunt or not. Leave literature as it is. A lot of books, when I was a kid, gave me nightmares, so good was the writing, but I couldn't, and wouldn't even think of changing anything of it. A lot if kids in today's society, are wimps. If you can't handle the book, close it, and put it down. Give it it to someone else to enjoy. But don't destroy the content. That's what I'm on about.
Fahrenheit 451 was not supposed to be an instruction manual.
I wonder when they will be ban that. Far too thought-provoking to be left alone. It might offend people who can't or won't think for themselves.
So true! Crude rewrites are just other versions of destroying books.
@@jenniferneil2438 Ironically, Fahrenheit 451 was originally banned just because one of the books burnt in the book was The Bible.
Just boycott Puffin, until this ridiculous decision is rescinded.
They can’t do that! I reject these versions! Defiled!
It's basically '1984' coming to light.
It’s offensive for fat people to guzzle down junk food 24/7 and then expect us to see that as “normal/healthy” eating habits…
Always amuses me when they blame genes...
But that doesn't make them evil and that's what Dahl always does.
@@stephenreeds3632 no it’s a story, just exaggerating gluttony as a sin, which it is a sin to hurt your own body!!!
@@stephenreeds3632 So authors can only right happy non fiction stories now, to appease the woke culture… how controlled and boring we have become, under dictatorship…
And literally 99.99% of them will say
“Um i have a health condition”
Which statistically speaking is COMPLETELY wrong
Clever: Now everybody will be looking for original copies, and the price will go up.
As long as we boycott Puffin of course. How many will continue their principles expressed here when there is money to be made?
God help us! It’s out of control!
I'm sick when they attack literature. A bunch of peeps with such boring lives, they've got nothing better to do, than censor books. I feel sorry for kids, today. AND adults. 😒
If this none sense continues , the children of today’s children will no longer be capable of thinking for themselves....it’s extremely sad.🇨🇦🇬🇧
Ye gods you people do go on with a load of guff. They aren't even removing the originals, they're just offering these updated versions as well for those who might prefer them. It's purely a marketing ploy by Puffin, and given the amount of mock outrage and publicity it's attracting it's working rather well.
@@woopimagpie of course they're not removing the originals. Yet. If you really think the original Grimms Brothers Fairy Tales are available ANYWHERE, I'd love a copy!
@@samhelfrich2901 Try your local second hand bookshop, there are plenty circulating in the secondhand market. Ask me how I know 🤫
They targeted children’s TV and books a while ago, magic roundabout, the flowerpot men, Janet and John books etc, etc. Censorship is dangerous, we’re slowly becoming North Korea. It is frightening. I do wonder what is going on in the brains of these people, their minds are worrying to say the least. Seeing sexual connotations in the most innocent of books, TV or films. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory shows children that are very greedy, spoilt and selfish and it’s a good moral message. Where do these people originate? Who are these people???
Who gives these Woke people the power to do what they do ?....these fraudulent editions of classic books should all be banned....The majority of people are sick & tired of having this Woke doctrine forced down our throats.... this topic should be debated in every upcoming political debate.... Maybe starting with “What is a biological WOMAN ?” & What is a biological MAN?”....As a granny I’m so sick & tired of all of these idiots telling everyone else what to do...There must be real men & women ( gay or straight) out there with intelligence & common sense who could get things back to normal.I’m so beyond sick & tired of the inmates being handed the keys & the authority to run the asylum....
IMO 🇨🇦🇬🇧
The Government stick their heads firmly in the sand and the media fuel the flames. Plus there are people who follow the woke “like lemmings to the Sea” without any consideration of the affect on our young and on our country. Companies eagerly jump on the bandwagon, including some in the film industry. They need to stop and take stock of the affect the propaganda is having/will have on our younger generations, to placate the woke, without any thought of the toll it will take on their mental health. Censorship is a very dangerous game to play and it begs the question, who is benefitting from this action? Ultimately it all boils down to cold hard cash and power. It’s a slippery slope to a country run by dictators. Britain voted for Brexit to take back control of our country, not to turn the country into a dictatorship.
Spoilt brats
Read Fahrenheit 451, shows what we’re heading towards
@@thecatpersonuk9962 only if we follow like believe the media and follow like lemmings and let it happen.
Sensitivity readers = thought police = "department of truth" - We are living in a dystopian novel.
What will they do to the Brothers Grimm?
Exactly! That's what I have thought of. I read them as a child and thought they were part of folklore. There are scary elements in folk tales of all the countries. Sanitizing literature is horrific!
they'll get banned.
Love those books. My kids love those books ...what utter nonsense is this ..they was never anything wrong these books...loved world wide .well known author ..🇿🇦
Words are carefully crafted things , they can’t be changed without destroying a book, because words have their own life and they matter to a curious audience
The publishers today said they WILL NOT change the books original text. they have listened to British public outcry over censorship.
Francesca Dow, managing editor of Penguin, which owns Puffin, said: "We've listened to the debate over the past week which has reaffirmed the extraordinary power of Roald Dahl's books, and the very real questions around how stories from another era can be kept relevant for each new generation."
Our new Queen has said : the Queen Consort told an audience of writers and publishers: "Please remain true to your calling, unimpeded by those who may wish to curb the freedom of your expression or impose limits on your imagination. Enough said."
Idk how someone could think to rewrite the stories because the language itself is harmful, and not realise that it was never an issue just a few years ago. The language used has never been a problem and it's still not a problem. The problem is that parents nowadays don't know how to raise children without covering them in bubble wrap and trying to hide them from adversity, instead of teaching them how to confront it. Thank god my parents were never this overprotective.
Does this mean that those with the surname Black may have to change it.
I can just imagine, "Jack Black is racist!!! because his surname is black and he's white!!!!!!!!"
Schhhh, don’t give them any ideas… 🤫
Hahah
@@StranaHyena Hahahah. No, but it would be racist to call him white because color doesn't matter. xD
cliffedard.....cafe au lait perhaps😀
I have a double chin & I’m very offended that “double chin” has been removed by the thought/ literature police.🇨🇦🇬🇧
yeah, the book literally says you can have a double chin or stick out teeth and still look lovely... (i'm starting to get a double chin too)
I am happy we have the complete collection of the original Roald Dahl’s books in hard copies. Soon “they” might change parts of books without notice.
“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
That is the original quote. Dahl was saying it doesn't matter how you look, if you have good thoughts you will always looks lovely.
How is that offensive ?
I’d prefer to be called Fat than enormous that’s a much bigger insult pun intended! I’ve bought a book set so I keep the original version of the books I loved as a child
I'm on the hunt to find and buy the originals to read to my kids. Not this new crap
Are they now offending green haired oranges faced people who are short?
If this is possible to do then copyright rules need to be changed to protect authors.
The altered version should not be marketed as written by Dahl. Legal action for fraud should be taken in such cases. Censored versions were not written by Dahl.
I feel like we have done another circle in history with book burning. Sigh......................
'Cancelling' Jane Austin ...bloody hell they have gone mad. I did Jane Austin for my English A level, "Emma" loved it. Love Roald Dahl as well..he's brilliant..Get a life Wokers...🥵
PS and Love Noddy and Big Ears 😜
I did Emma for A level too. Complete cultural vandalism.
This generation is getting ridiculous. They get offensive about every little thing. Get a frigin grip.
Piers - Netflix now own the rights to all Dahl's work inc publishing. People should cancel their Netflix subscriptions in protest until these changes are reversed
Thank goodness my grandchildren will be able to enjoy reading my well worn copies of original texts of classical authors...save your paperbacks for future generations!
l was fortunate to read a copy of the original Grimm's Fasiry Tales as a child...and although that volume is not in my possession l remember how different the stories were when comparing with the way Disney destroyed, and continues to destroy them. Same happened to Hans Christian Anderson's stories. Disney thought 'and they all lived happily ever after' was the message....and thus began the distorting of the truth.
I am so glad I got the complete works of Shakespeare years ago. It stinks what''s happening
@Joy Martin Me too Joy...got plenty other classic authors too....which apparently have been sidelined by universites....imagine shunting the Bronties and Austen to the rubbish pile????
Who gave them the authority to make these changes? Who are these individuals, who are their leaders? They will rewrite the bible next.
well technically the bible has been re-written thousands of times
What an absolute joke. Why do they think they can butcher a genius's work?
The ministry of truth!!!🤢🤢🤢
Where can we get them originals? Before they changed them!!!! This is stupid.
imagine a world with this much governance but we let children run our educational system
Utterly disgraceful
Didn't all this kind of nonsense also happen in the Dark Ages?
It happens in every single tyrannical system of any place and time.
I absolutely love how Piers is just so done with all the woke garbage that he is literally trolling an tearing them apart as he reports the news 🤣 good lad
You forgot to put "news" in inverted commas. This ain't news. It's a very clever marketing ploy by Puffin. I wouldn't mind betting Piers is getting a sly little kickback from them too. Nothing like a bit of mock outrage to create some publicity. Now wouldn't that just ruin your little illusion?
Lmao! The bit about non-binary clouds had me laughing so hardddd
For Western Nations to continue to cede the fruits of the Enlightenment, National Sovereignty, personal autonomy, beliefs. freedoms, principles, values, traditions, cultures, arts. literature, technologies, countryside and great cities to these people for the sake of social cohesion and green delusions is in truth, surrendering and submitting to a form akin to dhimmitude, we have in effect, become willing participants in our own ethnocide.
Spot on. How much more will we take before it is too late. Time to protest about not only immigration and before we become TOTALLY pathetic.
Let's rewrite Charles Darvins "Origin of Species" so that it no longer offends many millions of Christians.
Haha
No, but rationally this would be right. It's a fact, the same as the fact that there are multiple genders. These goddamn hypocrites.
Interesting isn't it how 'Christians' are put in this category.
Perhaps when blaspheming you could say allah or buddha or any other but no, always the Christians to be mocked.
ha... don't give ''em ideas😊
@@AnnieGrace777
A majority of Christians accepts the theory of evolution so I said many millions instead of a billion. I will only mock Christians who are opposed to science. Mostly I mock Christians who think that the Earth is flat but there are not that many of them. I do not know what status the theory of evolution has in different muslim or buddhist groups.
When do we make this shit stop. Agree we are like sheep
Insulting to sheep. In your case - braindead.
I feel sorry for todays children 😮
have they already made these changes because if they have not im buying the originals before they butcher a cultural icon
Not the Puffin versions I hope?
This is soo infuriating!! I am fine with being called fat, but calling me enormous?? That will not stand. G dammit people. Can stop with the censoring of everything!!
What these people fail to understand is when these books were published, things were different at the time. People talked, thought, behaved and acted differently, these books were products of their time
Physically ugly means evil or stupid or worthy of getting what they deserve? Is that what you mean?
Shut the fuck up and go to Korea. Use your fuckin brain for once before writing garbage like that online
it is funny how terminology changes over time. Now days especially online, curvy means obese
I’ve downloaded Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and they’ve already gotten rid of the word fat.
Stop the world, I'm getting off 🤦♂️
Soooo... to rewrite EVERYTHING, cross check Shakespeare, Austen, Dickens etc.... these people obviously need a life with REAL problems....
Puffin are illegally changing Dahl's words as they are copyrighted by Dahl
Wow, who could ever have imagined how bizarre this would become. It's one thing to offer some additional "abridged" version for immature audiences. It's quite another to mutilate the original work completely so that no one is allowed to read it anymore. There is nothing remotely "inclusive" in such blatant book-burning.
Common sense is not that common any more.
The problem is that it opens Pandora's box, because then the editing never stops. What is and is not offensive can be changed constantly, and the government can also redefine what is and isn't. So we end up in a situation similar to the one in George Orwell's book 1984, where people are employed to constantly re-write books and articles forever, according to what the government says.
This is disgusting. That they are changing these legendary books.
some things shouldn't change!
1984!
V for Vendetta !!!!
I'm disgusted.
I wonder, the people who make these decision's (and its only a small amount of them) have actually read any of Dhal's books or any book from front cover to back cover... I suspect not!
Thanks Piers, for this. I am so glad I have the original books. My grandchildren love Roald Dahl. They are 11, and 13. I am quite sure they wouldn't support this. Thank you for speaking out againsy this woke Nonsense.
"To avoid offending non-binary clouds" 😂
that makes laugh, because they called them smart
How did we get to this point where the absolute tiny minority are calling the shots and making the rules.
i'm sick and tired of this, and yet they don't ask what the people want
I was a Roald-Dahl book addict when I was 8. I knew when reading 'The Witches' that the whole point of witches wearing gloves to hide their ugly hands, wigs to cover their bald heads and shoes to disguise their toeless feet is because it's teaching kids how looks can be incredibly decieving, and for kids to recognise that they need to use their intuition, think rationally & distinguish between what is genuine & false. I swear, If they come for the Chronicles of Narnia or the Hobbit & Lord of the Rings I'm gonna scream.
This policy is so contemporary Canadian.
It's not just cultural vandalism, as that's bad enough: it's also a violation of copyright and the author's intentions and created material. Imagine you write a book, a part of which several people object to. They then change your book to their tastes, instead of simply leaving it alone or not reading it. This is just like robbery; it takes away from the original unjustifiably. There is no control then as to how many or what changes will be subsequently made by the pirates... it's very bad news for civilization in general.
Has Dahl's family responded to this? They must still have some form of copyright ownership over the written material.
Wasn't the whole point of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that the kids were monstrous creations of their parents? Nothing to do with fat shaming. It was a moral story against greed, bad manners, rudeness etc etc
Why has no one been offended by NWA then? The next one will be THE SIMPSONS !
I would think that the original authors would be extremely offended that people had the audacity to inerfere with their original words. I find it disgusting!!!
As someone who is fat I’ve always loved his books and stories.
I've started buying or rebuying older versions of books, cds, films etc i love now whilst i can because i dont know if and when this insanity will end and every day we seen to be getting closer to the events described in Fahrenheit 451 and 1984.
They'll prob rewrite those soon too.😒
It’s all too ridiculous and enough is enough
You can just see these woke muppets now, reading to a bunch of boys and girls and making sure they do the jazz hands instead of an applause at the end of the story just to ensure they double down on “sensitivity”😂
This is an an UTTER DISGRACE - what is wrong with people ? Why is this even in discussion?
“Come with me, and you’ll be, in a world of - No imagination”
Why are we putting up with this??? Down with Puffin!!
Newspeak 🤐😔
What was it we used to call people who burned books
Also where do you get the audacity from to change someone's works of art? Especially someone who can't agree or disagree about the changes! And language captures a spirit if time and history, which is fascinating to see. I read books from the 50s and 30s when I was little and I was intensely happy that I was in the 80s and not in the 50s. Teachers calling kids dumb imbeciles and ridiculing them. Was something I had never seen. But that's what happened in the 30s in some schools! Books, films, music, plays are a time capsule with all the good, the bad and the ugly. Don't touch that but take the good and learn from the bad and the ugly!
yet, they won't go after theose vulgar rap/ hip hop videos
...has anyone actually read any of the original fairy stories? I grew up with the fairy stories from Hans Christian Anderson ,& they are somewhat horrific...Children shouldn't be coddled from the horrors of this world. Facing dangers & completing seemingly impossible tasks makes for a strong individual. We are raising a generation of namby-pamby, spoiled, entitled ,future adults who cannot deal with the real world...
I grew up reading Pinocchio getting his feet burned off, the gingerbread man getting freed after the wolf’s stomach gets cut open and the prince (or thief or whoever he was) in Rapunzel getting blinded by thorns. I had no problem with any of these stories.
Don’t give them an inch!
The only book which children need to read is "1984"
Write your own damn books if these offend you .. good god I cannot believe this is what it has come to.. stop the world I want to get off
They're still keeping the originals in print for the 'normal' people of the world who enjoyed Dahls books & still do before the cancel culture lefty woke snowflakes started spoiling things. Im sure the kids would prefer the original books than the new mamby pampy p.c. rewrites & i hope parents buy the original versions for their children.
The reason, Roald Dahl included those words was because he used descriptive language (one of the things I like about him). If Augustus Gloop is to simply be enormous & not enormously fat, that would be so bland. If you don’t like his writing because you cried about 1 word added, easy. Just Don’t read it! If you have a problem about his legendary writing pieces, stop reading! It’s fine because nobody is forcing you but that doesn’t give you the right to write disrespect his unbeatable talent! But thankfully, I have the real thing. 100% Unedited, 100% Original & definitely not killed by the Woke editing.
This is so sad as a Roald Dahl fan (the books that got my kid reading in both portuguese and english fluently way ahead his peers, just because he enjoys them so much)... but there are also larger implications and I think comparisons to China aren't farfetched at all. The world we're living in...
#amwf
I wonder what the new title for Moby Dick will be. 🤔
For the record, I'll continue to use phrases like "black as the ace of spades" and "calling the kettle black" and I don't apologise.
Sad. I hope you find peace.
It's okay, universities and colleges are next to be cancelled.
They've already been. For ages now.
This madness is offensive to sane people.
I'll make sure our child reads an original version of Roald Dahl's books!
If you can get hold of them!
I can imagine a Fry and Laurie sketch about this kind of thing 😂