MAO-STYLE CULTURAL REVOLUTION: Roald Dahl Children’s Books Rewritten to Delete References to ‘Fat’ Characters, Add ‘Inclusive’ Gender Terms

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‘The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron–they’ll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually changed into something contradictory of what they used to be’ – George Orwell, ‘1984’

Ideological butchery.

How is this any different than Mao’s cultural revolution sparked by Mao’s concerns about his genocidal vision of communism. Mao eventually t down China’s schools (the Democrats are overthrowing ours) and his Red Guards attacked all traditional values and middle class things and to test party officials by publicly criticizing them.

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“Many elderly people and intellectuals not only were verbally attacked but were physically abused. Many died.”

“The resulting anarchy, terror, and paralysis completely disrupted the urban economy. “(Encyclopedia Britannica)

Roald Dahl children’s books rewritten to delete references to ‘fat’ characters, add ‘inclusive’ gender terms

The changes are part of an effort by the publisher to ensure the books ‘can continue to be enjoyed by all today’

By: Kyle Morris | Fox News February 19, 2023;

A publisher has altered children’s books by Roald Dahl – the author of several well-received children’s books that were later made into hit movies, including “Matilda,” “James and the Giant Peach,” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” – to remove language now deemed offensive.

Puffin, the publisher of Dahl’s classic works, has hired sensitivity readers to make changes to certain portions of the author’s wording in the U.K. editions as part of an effort to ensure the books “can continue to be enjoyed by all today.”

The publisher’s rewrite, first reported by The Telegraph, altered numerous descriptions of certain characters’ physical appearances, removed references to some characters being fat, and changed some language to be gender-neutral.

Augustus Gloop, the chubby character featured in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” is now described as “enormous,” while Mrs. Twit, a character from “The Twits,” is described as just “beastly” instead of “ugly and beastly.”

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Roald Dahl, the author of several popular works, including Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Roald Dahl, the author of several popular works, including Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. (Tony Evans, E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service)

In “James and the Giant Peach,” the character of Miss Sponge is no longer described as “the fat one,” Miss Spider’s head is not “black” anymore, and the Earthworm has given up its “lovely pink” skin for “lovely smooth skin.”

In Dahl’s “The Witches”, first published in 1983, a paragraph noting that witches are bald beneath their wigs includes a new line that reads: “There are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs and there is certainly nothing wrong with that.”

Another passage from “The Witches” that originally described a “fat little brown mouse” has been changed to “little brown mouse” and a section that used to be, “‘Here’s your little boy,’ she said. ‘He needs to go on a diet’,” has been altered to read: “Here’s your little boy.”

In “Matilda,” the description of Mrs. Trunchbull’s “great horsey face” has been changed to simply “face,” and “eight nutty little idiots” now reads “eight nutty little boys.”

The changes have also resulted in the inclusion of gender-neutral language.

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T D
T D
1 year ago

“…every book rewritten,…every statue and street building has been renamed… History has stopped.”
-George Orwell, 1984

Snowedin
Snowedin
1 year ago

More indoctrination to destroy the children by the progressive commie demos who always are crying that it is for the children.

vinnynewyork
vinnynewyork
1 year ago

No problem … as soon as possible, we will burn these books. Those scatterbrains who make changes will put these books to memory, and finish as those in the end of ‘Fahrenheit 451’.

fir1
fir1
1 year ago

I believe they are envious of the communist Chinese

w, a, carr
w, a, carr
1 year ago

All this madness starts in the good old USA. Next they will create a new agency to go around libraries and even people’s homes to ensure none of the original editions of those books still exist

Glen
Glen
1 year ago

What a disgrace even to get approval from whoever owns the rights. After an authors death to change wording is to create whole new works. I bet any author would be disgusted by this.
The new changes becomes the work if someone else and must be stopped. I am working in story ideas and would never agree while alive or after I am gone to changes.

ישועת ה' כהרף ע
ישועת ה' כהרף ע
1 year ago

Yes, the good old US of A has gone through a communist revolution in 2020, by the little mutt Hitler Yuogand youth the Anarchist revolutionary guatd college “profesdors” have been indoctrinating behind closed doors, class rooms in Universities and colleges all over America.
This is what happens when you leave your impressionable mind children, in the hand of evil minded revolutionary old farting morons and go to work 24/7 to fulfill a luxurius out of touch with reality life style.

IntrepidD
Intrepid
1 year ago

During WWII Dahl was a member of the Baker Street Irregulars, a British spy organization that included Ian Fleming. Their job was to keep track of the Communists that had infiltrated the Roosevelt administration and report back to William Stephenson at British Security Co-ordination (BSC) in New York who directed the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), MI5, Special Operations Executive (SOE).

I know nothing of his children’s books and really don’t care other than the Woke Left is now sanitizing them. Apparently he also had a problem with Israel’s existence after 1967.

Last edited 1 year ago by Intrepid
T D
T D
1 year ago
Reply to  Intrepid

very interesting.

So if Dahl was fighting Marxists through spying; it is ironic that his works are being sanitized in the Marxist tradition.

Dennis
Dennis
1 year ago

I needed a reference from Confederacy of Dunces and it was gone rewritten .No wonder it’s never been made into a movie ?

Jedothek
Jedothek
1 year ago

No isolated phenomenon: Kenneth Clark’s book from 1969 also has been scrubbed since his death, from “To the Negro imagination it is a world of fear and darkness, ready to inflict horrible punishment for the smallest infringement of a taboo” to “In the imagination of some….” Some readers may think that this is an improvement, but it’s the process more than a particular outcome that is frightening.

Andrew
Andrew
1 year ago

The Book 1984 was meant to be a Book of fiction but today it appears to be a handbook for The Left.
FYI Pamela, I have been blocked from opening ANY Article of Robert Spencers Website Jihad Watch.
I sent him a reply but Im not 100% sure it will reach him, maybe you can let him know.

Donna
Donna
1 year ago

What incentive do authors have if the novels they write are changes beyond recognition after they sign onto a publisher? What then does the movie production company do to employ the ‘politically incorrect’ people to play these roles? Our imagination and that of children will be boxed in, like a wild horse that was free and is caught and corralled and fenced in until it is retrained and whipped into submission.
I can’t believe it’s legal to do it but obviously it must be or they couldn’t. I bet his daughter Sophie Dahl would not be happy that her fathers thoughts, imagination and creativity is erased and rewritten by the unbalanced leftist twits who gave the nod. I most certainly won’t be buying any more of these books so reading will oneday be just another memory. Absolutely insane.

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