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Exactly -- it's bowdlerisation, pure and simple. This is a behaviour that the left used to abhor, but they've finally found reason to adopt the behaviour themse
by jwestbury 4y ago
Exactly -- it's bowdlerisation, pure and simple. This is a behaviour that the left used to abhor, but they've finally found reason to adopt the behaviour themselves.
- cyclecount 4y agoAmericans on the right seem incapable of seeing the difference between the dominant liberal institutions in power today, and "the left" which holds basically no power in the western world today.
- defrost 4y agoTo be clear this is the attention seeking behaviour of capitalist publishers .. there are no "the left" involved here. They promote the changes, stoke the outrage via press releases, stir up support for "the originals" and make bank from two highly talked about simultaneous releases of the same old product. For context: Dahl’s publications are extremely lucrative. In 2021, his literary estate was bought by Netflix for £500m. So, despite the writer himself being more than three decades dead, his market share must not be allowed to diminish. [1] Absent any of this it'd just be just another release with zero fanfare or intereest. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/26/updating-roald-dahl-same-old-story-david-mitchell https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/26/updati...