Penguin House Publishing, among others, are rewriting and replacing words from classic novel in order to cater to modern easily-offended sensibilities.

“The author of books like James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, The Twits, and numerous others. What happened was, Dahl’s publisher, Puffin Books, hired a little clutch of “sensitivity editors” to substantively rewrite his books, purging words like “fat” and “ugly,” and Dahl’s descriptions of characters as “bald” and “female,” and inserting their own ham-handed, “sensitized” language”.

https://open.substack.com/pub/cjhopkins/p/the-war-on-insensitivity?r=qvzmb&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Truth doesn’t stand a chance of being honestly disseminated through time if it is altered contemporarily

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