Does it make you feel like a big man to use incorrect terms?

They will kill your school children DUUUH

Kill yourself

Yeah but what if a (poeTV approved race/gender specification of the week) has their feelings hurt?

ya'll are pro censorship whenever it makes you feel like a big whatever gender you choose.

"i'm for the marginalized and downtrodden people of the world unless i have to admit i've been wrong on the internet before or it doesn't cater exclusively to my narrow, self-serving vision of what revolution would entail"

-boatman von clowndick, esq

I support poor and working class people, not "the marginalized" which apparently is an extremely broad category that includes bronies, sexual fetishists, and people obsessed with niche internet gender nonsense.

Personally, I'd want children to grow up knowing that people thought A Lot differently 100 years ago.

You can tell kids that things used to be different without forcing BIPOC children to read course material with racial slurs.

They listen to rap...

Pillager pillages his mom's pussy

"You can tell kids that things used to be different without forcing BIPOC children to read course material with racial slurs."

Or the word "fat," I guess.

Spike preps bulls.

Got any other racial stereotypes about BIPOC kids you’d like to use Pillager?

I don't want to see Mark Twain, Richard Wright, or Any One Else censored.

just to be clear, BIPOC stands for "bisexual people of color"

“BIPOC stands for Black, Indigenous, and people of color. Pronounced “bye-pock,” this is a term specific to the United States, intended to center the experiences of Black and Indigenous groups and demonstrate solidarity between communities of color.”

There is nothing you can be right about

Because the best way to learn from the past is to cover up it ever happening!

Yes, thank you. This absolutely should not be happening. But it KEEPS happening. A new author rewritten every week. Who's next, I wonder?

The Bible

I hope Disney losing Steamboat Willie to public domain starts the ball rolling.

"studied by finding the original works..." They want the original works destroyed. They want them to fade out and disappear so these "corrected" versions can exist in their place.

Agatha Christie and Ian Fleming weren't targeted at younger audience. One assumes that audience is made up of adults who are supposed to be able to think for themselves.

As far as the YA books, the what racism? What casual bigotry? The "sensitivity readers" these companies hired recommended getting rid of words like "fat," and they "fixed" it so Matilda is checking out Jane Austen from the library instead of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Because this dead author's character needed her reading habits "corrected?" The current and future generations are going to "think" and "decide what's best" for her now?

The "unacceptable bigotry" in your hypothetical disclaimer would be entirely, subjectively up to the person contracted to mark up these books. It could run the gauntlet from an outdated slur to the description of a tree being too phallic.

But you do touch on one good point, though. Words matter, don't they! Authors often choose those words very carefully: for alliteration, satire, allusion, rhythm, metaphor, callback to an earlier part of the text, etc.

But good God, he used the word 'amorous' here. That is completely unacceptable here in 202X because of buzzword, buzzword, buzzword, buzzword, and buzzword culture buzzwordism.

This isn't white people clutching their pearls. This is something nobody asked for, that is going to have ramifications down the road that are far worse.

https://rethinkingschools.org/articles/rethinking-agatha-christie/

‘A review of the 2004 book version of Ten Little Indians, now published by St. Martin’s Griffin as And Then There Were None, reveals that editorial revision is still needed. Page 57 includes the statement “natives don’t mind dying.” Anti-Semitism is also expressed on pages 5, 6, and 124, when a Mr. Morris is referred to as “little Jew” and “Jewboy” with “thick Semitic lips.”’

"How about editing the content and add a disclaimer that the book was edited for unacceptable bigotry"

These are great books for children, if you edit out all of the unacceptable bigotry.

"delicate white people clutching at pearls about the writing of dead white people"

I see the insistence on editing books as white people wanting to have their cake and eat it too. Rather than give kids completely different books of at least equal entertainment and literary value (without checking, I know there are plenty), people are just rewriting books that are being called offensive because they refuse to let them go. We could actually set a good example for children and say, "these books have no place in an enlightened society," and stop reading them, stop promoting them as good culture, stop distributing them, etc., but instead we go with, "I support equality and inclusion, but not at the expense of sacrificing things I like. Can we just paper over the parts people are complaining about and maintain the cultural status quo?"


"they aren’t political treatise, religious text or philosophical ponderings that need protecting."

I guess the history of culture doesn't need protecting. Or the history of any individual. If you've spent your entire life contributing absolutely nothing, I suppose it can be hard to care if someone comes in after the fact and redefines your existence, but I find it pretty fucking offensive that we're doing that to people. I don't care if people stop reading these books, or discourage others from doing so, or write all kinds of critiques, or lobby publishing companies to stop publishing them. But rewriting someone else's thoughts to make them more suitable to your own? Fuck off.

"Most of the people you’re all crying about wrote books to make money. "

Fuck off again with this. Everybody needs to make a living, as if earning a paycheck off of doing something you like invalidates any artistic integrity. I'll also point out that these books are being edited solely so the corporations publishing them can make continued profit, not because they give two shits about social issues (see: the complete history of business).

Most of these writers would give zero fucks about editing out some racist terms while preserving the narrative.

And the ones who would consider it vital to degrade minorities as part of a story aren’t worth defending. And I’m specifically talking about casual racists, before you shit yourself about books that cover racism as a bad thing.

"It's the greedy authors who wrote these books to eat, not the saintly publishing companies, who are the REAL insincere money grubbers here!"

is the best SolRo lack of self awareness moment since claiming that it was the west who was blinded by crying "Nazis!" when it comes to Russia.

SolRo is still hoping MSNBC will hire him if he makes enough dumb statements.

I’ll phrase it differently; if they are so adamant about preserving racism then I don’t give a fuck what they want. Same as i don’t give a fuck about burning every inch of tape and wiping every byte of data that has tucker Carlson on it.

But the euro McDonald’s are higher quality than the American ones. Not even mentioning the Japanese ones.

Utterly incomprehensible, mat god have mercy on your soul.

I’m going to Italy in 3 weeks and I’ll eat at McDonald’s just to pop your monocle