Publisher Rewrites Passages in Roald Dahl’s Books to Promote Feminism, Fight Fatphobia
Passages in the books by children’s author Roald Dahl have been extensively rewritten by its publisher to align with a woke agenda.Hundreds of changes to Dahl’s celebrated children’s books, including the likes of Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, and The Witches, have been identified by Ed Cumming, Genevieve Holl-Allen, and Benedict Smith in an article for The Telegraph, some of […]
Passages in the books by children’s author Roald Dahl have been extensively rewritten by its publisher to align with a woke agenda.
Hundreds of changes to Dahl’s celebrated children’s books, including the likes of Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, and The Witches, have been identified by Ed Cumming, Genevieve Holl-Allen, and Benedict Smith in an article for The Telegraph, some of them changing passages of the works in question virtually beyond recognition.
“The wonderful words of Roald Dahl can transport you to different worlds and introduce you to the most marvellous characters. This book was written many years ago, and so we regularly review the language to ensure that it can continue to be enjoyed by all today,” publisher Puffin Books says of the changes — in other words, it is regularly rewriting those “wonderful works” to suit modish sensibilities, much as ‘Minitrue’ (the Ministry of Truth) continuously rewrote books and other records to suit the narrative of the powers that be in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
“Words matter,” Puffin stated by way of further explanation.
Dahl, born in 1916 in Wales to Norwegian parents, has in recent years been accused of harbouring anti-Semitic sentiments in later life, complaining shortly before his death in 1990 that “[t]here aren’t any non-Jewish publishers anywhere, they control the media,” for example.
