Jeg har ikke ord for at udtrykke hvor meget jeg hader woke-bev\u00e6gelsen i alle dens afskygninger.
Seneste offer for idiotien er Roald Dahl, hvis b\u00f8rneb\u00f8ger nu i forbindelse med nyudgivelser er blevet gennemg\u00e5et af “sensitivity readers”, som har omskrevet og fjernet adskillige passager. De seneste dage er nettet flydt over med eksempler, mange af dem s\u00e5 groteske at man t\u00e6nker “Det her M\u00c5 v\u00e6re satire!”. Men nej. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her er nogle eksempler. De to f\u00f8rste er fra The Witches<\/em>, det tredje fra Matilda:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n F\u00f8r: Efter: F\u00f8r: Efter: F\u00f8r: Efter: Ubegribeligt! Andre \u00e6ndringer best\u00e5r i at fjerne ord som “crazy” og mad”, “white” og “black”, og selvf\u00f8lgelig “fat”, for guderne forbyde at det skulle traumatisere nogen at st\u00f8de p\u00e5 disse adjektiver. Denne \u00e6ndring er fra Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n F\u00f8r: Efter: Beskrivelser af personers k\u00f8n bliver systematisk \u00e6ndret i ligestillingens navn: “Okay, girls” bliver til “Okay, folks”. “Fully grown women” bliver til “Fully grown people”. “mothers and fathers” bliver til “parents”. Og Mr. Fox fra Fantastic Mr Fox<\/em> har nu tre d\u00f8tre istedet for tre s\u00f8nner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jeg ville \u00f8nske, jeg kunne n\u00f8jes med at betragte de ansvarlige mennesker som spild af kulstof, men det kan jeg ikke. Revisionisme af denne type besidder en destruktiv kraft, der er sv\u00e6r at overvurdere. Disse anonyme idioter er et symptom – et blandt mange – p\u00e5 den vestlige civilisations d\u00f8dsdans. Deres historieomskrivning svarer til Talebans statue-destruktioner. De har min dybeste foragt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For nylig fremf\u00f8rte en vis Rhiannon Lucy Cosslet i The Guardian <\/em>(hvor ellers?) det synspunkt, at det at eje en stor bogsamling er et tegn p\u00e5 at man er “smug and middle class”. Nuvel, Dahl-revisionisterne her har lige leveret det bedste argument for at holde sig fra eBogs-l\u00e6sere og holde sig til b\u00f8ger af papir – i de oprindelige udgaver. Jeg vil l\u00e6se det mine yndlingsforfattere faktisk skrev<\/em>, s\u00e5 jeg beholder min store bogsamling. Tilsvarende er jeg glad for min store DVD-samling – jeg vil for fremtiden aldrig have tillid til at en gammel film vist p\u00e5 en streamingtjeneste vil v\u00e6re ucensureret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jeg har ikke ord for at udtrykke hvor meget jeg hader woke-bev\u00e6gelsen i alle dens afskygninger. Seneste offer for idiotien er Roald Dahl, hvis b\u00f8rneb\u00f8ger nu i forbindelse med nyudgivelser er blevet gennemg\u00e5et af “sensitivity readers”, som har omskrevet og fjernet adskillige passager. De seneste dage er nettet flydt over med eksempler, mange af dem … <\/p>\n
“Don’t be foolish,” my grandmother said. “You can’t go round pulling the hair of every lady you meet, even if she is wearing gloves. Just you try it and see what happens.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Don’t be foolish,” my grandmother said. “Besides, there are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs and there is certainly nothing wrong with that.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even if she is working as a<\/em> cashier in a supermarket or typing letters for a businessman.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even if she is working as a top scientist or running a business.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
She went to nineteenth century estates with Jane Austen. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and California with John Steinbeck.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
A nine-year-old boy who was so enormously fat he looked as though he had been blown up with a powerful pump […] Great flabby folds of fat bulged out from every part of his body, and his face was like a monstrous ball of dough.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
A nine-year-old boy who was so enormous he looked as though he had been blown up with a powerful pump […] Great folds bulged out from every part of his body, and his face was like a monstrous ball of dough.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n