Let’s talking about Roald Dahl…

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Hello Everyone!!

Sorry for the disturbance and the absence but today I wanted to talk about a topic that It’s very personal to me and because is related to one of my favorites authors: Roald Dahl.

Honestly, this is my personal opinion and I don’t want to offend or irritate anyone and if you don’t agree with me that’s fine, I am not judging you, but the fact some people, in particular Netflix and Puffin Books who owns the rights of Dahl’s works now, have heavily censored and distorted his bibliography because they find offensive is a bit a joke.

I don’t agreed to this fact because first they didn’t ask to the author (Dahl died in 1990) or his heirs to modify his or express his opinion about this fact and create a healthy confrontation about it, and second everyone, even a child, can distinguish what is wrong or right in a book If you give an exhaustive explanation and contextualization.

If you find a topic or something that you think is hurtful, even that is from a different era, censorship without discussion or reflection is not the solution.
Talking about this argument and explaining, with patience and tolerance, of why this fact is offensive now is the best option.

I’m so sorry about this argument and I deeply apologize If I’ve offended someone with this blog, I will delete it, if so.
If you have an opinion about this fact or you disagree about it, you can write and discuss about it, with tranquility.
There is not judgement here.
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atram:
@franie No problem, I can explain here. In particular the major changes they made in the Roald Dahl’s works are in “The Witches” who the grandmother tell to the child to do not pull the hair of every woman he meet to verify is a witch, in the original edition. In the modified version the grandmother said to the child that every woman have theirs motive to wear a wig. They made this change because they thought that phrase instigated violence against women. Another important modification have made in “Matilda”, when in the original version It said that the main character, Matilda, read Rudyard Kipling’s books, they put in the modified version that she read Jane Austen instead. They made this change because Kipling’s works was deeply influenced by the colonialists’s mentality of 1800s, and they thought that was not good for children
atram:
@franie Honestly, I think this changes are useless because every child can understand that pull someone hair to verify is a witch or not, isn’t a good thing to do and I haven’t heard about a person who become violent against women because they read things. The same thing goes to Matilda’s changes of readings. I think the best thing to do with a child when they read something about Kipling or the hair pulling is sit and talking to them about about this argument, with patience and tolerance, and don’t underestimate their intelligence and comprehension.

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