Changing the words in Roald Dahl's book to remove offence strikes me as...

[Glaurung]

I've never read any of the author's books but this move still upsets me a little. The nihil obstat of a progressive activist class. This move is blatantly ideological and their justifications are contrived.

If an author wants to write nice, safe, socially acceptable pabulum they are free to do so. But leave old works alone. I don't want the past sanitized of its "insensitive words and opinions".

 

[pearl]

I still listen to Zippity Do Da on occasion and I still like it. No regrets for liking it either.

Yes, such songs may have been endearing for many, including me, without recognizing the reality of its affects on others.

 

[Rival]

I guess we ought to revise the Book of Common Prayer before some popish person gets offended by its derogatory language for Roman Catholics.

 

[Kathryn]

 

[Yerda]

Infuriating and shameful. Echoes of 1984 and how the Ministry of Truth would redact old books and articles to control perception.

More like profit motivated vandalism than big brother, imo.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Okay, the owners of the work have the right to change it. Unfortunately. I almost wish that there was a law where when that is done to a text that there would have to be a warming label: