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<\/a><\/p>\nThe late Roald Dahl<\/a> was a popular children\u2019s writer, the author of such classics as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/a> and James and the Giant Peach<\/a>.\u00a0 Children love them because they are funny and have a deliciously (but innocent) rebellious edge.\u00a0 Parents like them too because, unlike many children\u2019s titles, they are not insipid and preachy, but are instead fun for all.<\/p>\n But Netflix, which purchased the rights to Dahl\u2019s books from his estate, is taking away that rebellious edge by rewriting the books to make them more politically correct!\u00a0 Not only are words like \u201cfat\u201d and \u201cugly\u201d removed, whole passages are revised so as to change witty writing to blas\u00e9 preachiness.\u00a0 Here<\/a> is a Twitter list of specific changes, among which are these, from Incunabula:<\/p>\n These revisions of Dahl\u2019s books The Witches<\/a> and Matilda<\/a> were obviously made (1) to protect the feelings of those undergoing chemotherapy (2) to encourage girls to pursue the top professions (3) to cancel a great author who wrote in the context of the British empire, replacing him with a pretty-good writer who wrote in the context of the Great Depression.<\/p>\n Setting aside the artistic vandalism, is there any evidence that children are actually bothered or triggered or badly-influenced by the original wording?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t this just an insertion of progressive indoctrination into works that are intentionally non-didactic?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t this an assault on the work of an author who has been called\u00a0 \u201cone of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century\u201d?<\/p>\n And if progressive parents don\u2019t want their children to be exposed to Dahl\u2019s naughtiness, why don\u2019t they just find other books for them to read?\u00a0 There are certainly plenty of others written to their standards, such as virtually every children\u2019s book published today.<\/p>\n Here<\/a>, by the way, is the source of Incunabula\u2019s tweets, from the Telegraph in the UK.\u00a0 You can click a book and see all of the changes that were made to it.\u00a0 Including in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the complete removal of a reference to a boy playing with guns and changing \u201cShe needs a really good spanking!\u201d to \u201cShe needs a really good talking to!\u201d<\/p>\n The estimable Mark Hemingway writes about the fiasco in his article for The Federalist<\/em> entitled\u00a0The Censorship Of Roald Dahl Shows The Left\u2019s \u2018Book Banning\u2019 Accusations Are Utterly Disingenuous<\/a>.\u00a0 In which he asks, \u201cThe same people who say it\u2019s OK to expose young children to sexually explicit material also think kids\u2019 books need to be censored to stop calling people \u2018fat\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n