Wat. Keep your imagination away from me.
Do you know who Allan Bloom is?
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- Yes…wait…no, I thought you meant Harold Bloom.
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I admit it looks like I was partially wrong about your POV tho. My bad. On edge lately
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I probably read most of the series
My favorites were Time Machine and Robinson Crusoe
I didn’t understand why the illustrations of Friday gave me butterflies. And the illustrations and descriptions of the sharply dressed, cigar-smoking gentlemen in London
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get my fainting couch with this Huck Finn bullshit. yes, it is correct to take out language and lines that doesn’t sit well in the modern times. that’s actually fairly common occurrence, and collectively we treat it as a compromise, somewhere in between outright banning the entire song or poem, and continuing to use hateful and harmful language.
e.g. the freaking national anthem cutting three quarters of star spangled banner, for good fucking reason! the full version is still available wherever you want to read it.
Shocking, so the Dahl holders get a week of 24/7 promotion and will make more money than they have been with his back catalogue. Fair fucks to em, they played the outrage media like a fiddle
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Another W for keeeeeeeed!
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Seems like this got enough of a public backlash that we won’t have to worry about revised versions of Harry Potter any time soon.
You’re going to need your fainting couch sadly.
“His name is Jim, right? Just Jim, doesn’t need any modifier. What’s so hard about that?”
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The language didn’t sit well with people in Twain’s time!
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don’t make me cancel becky thatcher!
The difference between Twain and Dahl of course is that Twain was anti-racist and the language in Huck Finn exists as a way to showcase the troubled culture of that era. Getting rid of it would indeed be whitewashing and distorting his message.
What purpose does the racism in Dahl’s works serve? Particularly as the value of his books are whimsical children’s stories, not cultural period pieces.
Here is the better analogy to Dahl:
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A great reason to not read them anymore. Rewriting a racist guy’s books to take out the racism so that his great grandchildren can get even more rich is bad.
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That’s a poor analogy. Everyone understands that this is a loose adaptation of the original story. --It’s got “Walt Disney’s” right there to let you know!
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Doesn’t matter to me. Yes Dahl was a racist. His works shouldn’t be rewritten. No dead artist’s works should be rewritten without comment and presented as if that’s how they were originally written. I’m for freedom of speech, artistic freedom, academic freedom. If you’re for those sorts of freedoms, they must apply equally to views, art, and scholarship you despise. Otherwise you’re not for freedom of expression. Goebbels was in favor of freedom of expression for artists he agreed with. So was Stalin.
Urban Jim
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It’s offensive to me that people want to teach our kids that Dahl wasn’t racist and Francis Scott Key isn’t racist and the country wasn’t founded on racism
The arguments of “you can find out those things if you really want to” are so bogus. People believe the simple, rosy things they’re taught as kids, and come up with rationalizations later when they find it isn’t true. Actually just dig in harder and more radically. That is blatantly obvious when it comes to things like patriotism and the gender = chromosomes mouthbreathers.
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i learned about star spangled banner controversy in high school. are you saying they should teach it earlier? ok, i’m not opposed to that. are you saying they should teach something else? or teach it differently? but for the time being people can just sing the first stanza at ballgames?