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Progressive activists
by fullshark 4y ago
Progressive activists
- idontwantthis 4y agoBut who, specifically? I haven’t heard of anyone demanding this.
- serf 4y agoa guess : the conflict inherent with the decision creates renewed interest in older franchises. might be a way to trade some short-term public outrage into revenue.
- zoklet-enjoyer 4y agoThese nutcases worked on the Roald Dahl edits https://www.inclusiveminds.com/ https://www.inclusiveminds.com/
- hackernewds 4y agoWhat was non-inclusive about Ronald Dahl?
- tohnjitor 4y agoApparently everything
- hellisothers 4y agoYea man, if you’re trying to prevent children from being uncomfortable and scared then you’re going to love Roald Dahl brand kindling. The books a great, but they’re scary and unapologetic in a slow burn way.
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- monero-xmr 4y agoYou are hired for a DEI role, you need to fill up the hours of a full time job. After policing everyone internally such that nothing interesting is mentioned anymore, you make yourself useful by getting out the sharpie and censoring words.
- BuyMyBitcoins 4y agoThere is probably no publicly known figurehead or group demanding this. But this kind of thing doesn’t require that. All it takes is a group of likeminded and ideologically motivated employees at publisher pushing to have it done.
- asfarley 4y agoManufacturing consent
- defrost 4y agoUnlikely. It's literally Scholastic middle management editors making busy work for themselves and to justify Scholastic taking a percentage on Yet Another Edition Release. There's a long history of publishers kicking popular works down the road again and again to keep extracting $$$'s and "cleaning up" potentially offensive language is just another manufactured reason to pretend to be brushing up and fettling old works as new again.
- junofan 4y agoThese books came out coincident with a movie in 2018. No other excuse needed to re-release. I also think you underestimate how organized these activists are.
- defrost 4y ago> I also think you underestimate how organized these activists are. By all means do please link to the lobby campaign demanding changes to R.L.Stine.
- hackernewds 4y ago> It's literally activists making busy work for themselves ftfy. they need something to protest as well, as an occupation
- miguelazo 4y agoBS. This a very narrow, extreme and ahistorical extrapolation of identity politics.