Monday, March 13, 2023
‘Shut up’ is out: sensitivity editors come for Blyton's Famous Five
The phrases “Shut up”, “Don’t be an ass”, and “Don’t be an idiot” have been quietly cut from Enid Blyton’s Famous Five, in the latest example of children’s literature being rewritten to suit modern sensibilities.
The move comes less than a month after UK publisher Puffin was forced into a backdown after attempting to remove words such as “fat” and “ugly” from Roald Dahl classics including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
An audiobook of one of the Famous Five’s adventures, The Famous Five Short Story Collection, has been edited in recent months to delete the phrases, uttered by the child characters beloved by generations of readers.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/shut-up-is-out-now-the-famous-five-are-being-censored/news-story/be87c2c08957e29d5707d94141410988
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Hey, want to milk a beloved franchise rather than create your own stories, while signaling how woke and virtuous you are? Welcome to the "DEI Rewrite!" Starting with beloved, commercially successful product, we infuse the latest in wokie woke values, producing generic fluff that is neither beloved nor up to the quality of the original, but that we can market to those who loved the original as "progressive!"
Look, we know that making up new content is HARD - that some of these works of literature are subtle works of genius that cannot be replicated by the current mediocre writers trying to push the woke agenda on the world - and we have a fix! Take a classic, rewrite it to resemble what the parents' loved but the kids REALLY need to hear, and foist it on an unsuspecting public!
We make money, you get virtue points - it's a win-win all around!
Secondhand bookstores will do a booming business selling copies of the originals which are being sanitized by the wokies.
Too bad their now trying to rewrite books to appease to the sensitive little snowflakes that come out of these liberal run collages they did a a few years ago with The Night Before Christmas they edited out THE STUMP OF A PIPE,HE HELD IN HIS TEETH,AND THE SOME ENCIRCLED HIS HEAD LIKE WREATH
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