Roald Dahl books rewritten to remove language deemed offensive

[I Am A Swede]

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/18/roald-dahl-books-rewritten-to-remove-language-deemed-offensive

 

Any thoughts? Personally I think changing in someone else's work is very questionable. Put a disclaimer before perhaps, but not alter what someone else has written. It feels like a dangerous precedent to set, and who'll be the judge of what is considered "offensive" enough to change?

[AbcNbc247]

Agreed.

This does set a dangerous precedent 

[Faulkner]

 

[Joseph]

It's like "Ten Little Niggers" by Agatha Christie Being Renamed "And then there was none" and even changing parts of the book, I understand that this word can be very offensive in the English Language but it's not exactly fair judging the writing of a Writer who happens to have been White, British and Who wrote that before WWII!

It's Stupid To Just Rewrite a work that isn't intended to offend someone, You can't treat all books like it "Mein Kampf"