Where are the Oompa Loompas when you need them. Willy Wonka’s helpers asked “who do you blame when your kid is a brat? Pampered and spoiled like a Siamese cat?” The same question could be asked about publishers after Puffin Books hired sensitivity readers to “update” portions of Roald Dahl’s classic books. The changes include dropping references to Augustus Gloop being “fat.” Yet, unlike the Oompa Loompas, who found sanctuary “from hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles,” there is no safe place from woke whangdoodles today.
While European publishers have refused to rewrite Dahl’s classics, Puffin Books believes that it is perfectly acceptable to change books after an author has died. Puffin simply could not abide references to things like the weight of Gloop. So they changed “fat” to “enormous.” (It is not clear what Puffin Books will do with Walter Tevis’ character “Minnesota Fats” in The Hustler. “Minnesota Enormous” just doesn’t quite have that same authentic gritty quality in a pool hall drama).
WARNING THE FOLLOWING VIDEO SHOWS OOMPA LOOMPAS REFERENCING A WORD DEPICTING A BODY SHAPE:
French publishing house Gallimard told The Telegraph that it will not rewrite such works and the revisions “only concern Britain.”
Yet, many believe that it is perfectly acceptable to rewrite the work of great authors. We previously discussed how publishers rewrote portions of Twain classics like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn because people found the original writing to be offensive.
With writers and editors supporting blacklisting, it is little surprise to see support for simply changing the work of others to fit your own values. It is the reign of literary Lilliputians swarming over great works to conform them to their own vision and preferences. Rather than cancel writers, they are simply forcing them (including those long deceased) to speak in a different voice or use different words. These authors become ventriloquist puppets for others speaking through their works.
The silence of many writers and academics is deafening. People who claim to support free expression are just looking at their shoes rather than risk being targeted as reactionary or insufficiently sensitive to contemporary mores. After all, Dahl is not objecting, why should we? Of course, he died in 1990, but most writers and editors today either support such violations of creative expression or they are entirely intimidated by the flash mobs that target critics.
So Puffin Books will change these works to the thrill of activists. These woke apparatchiks will take a masterpiece that they could never have written themselves and change passages to fit their own values. It is an attack on the independence and free expression of artists and writers alike, but there is not even a single Oompa Loompa still around to object:
Oompa Loompa doompadee doo
I’ve got another puzzle for you
Oompa Loompa doompa dah dee
If you are wise you’ll listen to me… Why don’t you try simply reading a book?
Or could you just not bear to look?
When anyone other than the original author makes changes, its called FanFiction. Look it up on AO3 or Fanfiction.net. Sequels are fanfictions also.
So let me get this straight….being called ENORMOUS…. is BETTER than being called fat???? 🤔
From my iPhone, a test.
Cannot connect from my iPad.
Leftist Genderists first changed the AA’s preamble’s phrase::”men and women” to “people”; then they came for Biological Science saying men can get pregnant and men can be transformed into women; now they’re coming to mangle the English Language and Laws and the Constitution, next they’ll be rewriting Literature, Dickens and Shakespeare, next philosophy, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and then they’ll be rewriting Scripture. And all that is necessary for these evil Leftists to triumph is for good Conservative people do and say nothing., Psychobabble and Orwellian Newspeak will rule
I highly doubt that you read the original version of scripture.
It’s not the same as rewriting scripture, but my very liberal church, part of the United Church of Christ denomination, began using a hymnal quite a few years ago that rewrote pretty much all of the classic hymns. Most of them rewrites were by a woman named Ruth Duck, They took all of the poetry out of these beautiful hymns and replaced it with phrases like “first let’s tackle poverty “. My daughter and I couldn’t stop laughing as we tried to get through the words, but no one else seemed to see how absurd it was.
Leftist Genderists first changed the AA’s preamble’s phrase::”men and women” to “people”; then they came for Biological Science saying men can get pregnant and men can be transformed into women; now they’re coming to mangle the English Language and Laws and the Constitution, next they’ll be rewriting Literature, Dickens and Shakespeare, next philosophy, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and then they’ll be rewriting Scripture. And all that is necessary for these evil Leftists to triumph is for good Conservative people do and say nothing., Psychobabble and Orwellian Newspeak will rule.
It’s rather ironic that JT illustrates his column with video in which the Oompa Loompas were modified vis-a-vis the book, for similar reasons.
“It’s rather ironic . . .”
It’s rather ignorant you don’t know that Dahl disowned that movie.
Why do you assume that I didn’t know? It doesn’t affect the irony of Turley’s choice. JT wasn’t using it to comment on Dahl’s choice to sell the rights and subsequent unhappiness with the results.
“These woke apparatchiks will take a masterpiece that they could never have written themselves and change passages to fit their own values.” (JT)
And that is the fundamental evil in this story.
They are hijacking a man’s artistic creation to propagandize for an irrational ideology. Evil is impotent. To persist, it becomes a parasite on the good.
I wonder how many drafts they had. I know for me I go through hell and back in drafts. Before I create my master piece. Free speech is stifled….if pre thought is dampened or work products are curtailed. Here the take published was good enough. How much earlier? How much thought went into it? And they then didn’t think they’d offend anyone. Yet now later ppl act offennded. They are not. They are just rent seekers. In tax payer dime to boot!
Reminds me of inscoe getting the deal for the ymca….his first draft…..screw the tills out a their land….his second draft….get a good deal for the ymca….put himself as recipient for all rents….rent it to the government. Bypass all the normal rules with a facist ….public private partnership! Let’s see his rough drafts!
Because Mike till is dead. And he socially isolated ….while the closing ppl whose kids were in quarantine didnt. And he’s dead. By his word he traded a arce worth 50k for one worth 10.? Took advantage of. ? Totallly. they got my pal on his word. Let’s see their draft…as they brag getting till property for “penny’s on the dollar….let see are their drafts!. Their open meetings they do serially in group texts do.. and don’t really deliberate in open as evidenced by unanimouse all the time.. Let’s see their thoughts. That are suppose to be legally public….before you indict me for mine private – work it out thinking!! Let’s see what you were thinking!
You can’t be surprised….ikn same up to the facts. 22 vets a day kill themselves because it’s worthless to fight the ‘powers to be”…. That’s right 22 vets would rather die ….than put up a fight…we would rather put up a fight! then let you mock is with your counselors to death. You don’t get our fourth amendment…..you have to blatantly take it. And you can’t after tlo…. Which was a search….take it without me fighting …..for my oath. I’m not stolkholm….I’m an american! Your he’s did is meaningless to me in public education ….we your dog kicking via yonder is over. The only th I g that saves it is Gilroy 44% minority at send and denying your own policy….meanwhile fuller has a realtor meeting? Why? Your fixing on. Depressing our property values even more? What are you thinking? What is your deliberation?
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A federal judge, Amy Berman Jackson, has granted an effort by ex-FBI officials Pete Strzok and Lisa Page to depose Trump and Chris Wray for two hours each in a suit about Strzok’s firing in 2018 and invasion of privacy.
Open question: will Joe Biden assert any privilege over the testimony? Will Trump attempt to assert privilege even though he’s no longer President? ABJ has given the DOJ a month to assert privilege.
Will Trump be able to depose Strzok, letting general Flynn ask the questions?
Trump isn’t a defendant in this particular suit. Perhaps you’re confusing it with suits in which he is a defendant.
So the traitors, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, are allowed to conduct a Coup D’etat in America against Real President Donald J. Trump and not go to jail or be Drawn and Quartered?
The left edits the oompa loopas but they sit and laugh their arses off when Dave Chapelle uses the “N” word. He does it just to rub their noses in it. They’ve gotten used to the smell.
Estovir, show us documentation that the left laughs when Dave Chappell uses the ‘N’ word.
This is a good example of the ridiculous nonsense you post 200 per day (under different names). Just sweeping, mindless generalizations for utterly mindless readers.
God bless anonymous! Sorry you have to wade into this world of Turley and his yahoo acolytes but glad you take the fight to these members of booboisee so much more dangerous than any proudboy foot soldier.
Rather than spray insults at those whose politics you disagree with – why not make an argument ?
Contribute to the discussion, the debate.
ATS show us documentation that Estovir posts 200 times per day (under different names)
As to documentation that there is no problem when some people use the N word – you can find that on You tube, or at any of the events of black comedians or Rappers.
No one is obligated to provide you proof of the obvious. Of what is well known. Of the fact that the sun rose today.
This is the result when everyone hires Veruca Salt.
People must adapt to the outcomes of freedom.
Freedom does not adapt to people.
Dictatorship does.
The Constitution provides freedom.
The Communist Manifesto provide the “dictatorship of the proletariat.”
provides
Equity is freedom, equality is nonexistent, and only 9,000 out of 8 billion people graduate from Harvard.
The impossible mixture of oil and water requires emulsifiers.
The political emulsifiers required to mix political oil and water are unconstitutional dictatorship.
People must adapt to the outcomes of the freedom of speech…
lest all people suffer the “dictatorship of the proletariat.”
The Soviet Union published classics of Russian lierature, unaltered. When I was stationed with the US military in Berlin, I bought several such books from a local German bookstore.
The John Birch Society still gets it right.
All these Commie/Nazi Aholes need to be dealt with & shut down at.
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NY Times Editorial Board Member Questions Free Speech on Internet: ‘I don’t think we can allow it to go on’ (VIDEO)
by Mike LaChance Feb. 23, 2023 10:00 am440 Comments
Mara Gay of the NY Times editorial board appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe this week and questioned the idea of free speech on the internet.
She whined about so-called ‘hate speech’ and disinformation, which is classic leftist talk for, speech I don’t like.
Remember, this woman works for a newspaper that pushed the Russia collusion hoax for four solid years. She is appearing on a network that did the same, but now she is worried about disinformation?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/ny-times-editorial-board-member-questions-free-speech-on-internet-i-dont-think-we-can-allow-it-to-go-on-video/
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MUST SEE: Anti-White Marxist Professor Angela Davis Is Dumbfounded When She Receives The Shocking Truth About Her American Ancestors
by Cullen Linebarger Feb. 23, 2023 9:45 am80 Comments
This is one of the most amazing videos you will see, especially considering the noxious figure at the center of it.
Angela Davis is one of most infamous communists in American history. For over five decades, she has advocated for the abolition of capitalism in America and for Marxist dictatorships around the globe.
In addition to her communism, she was one of the founders of critical race theory, which teaches that white people are responsible for America’s sins and ongoing problems. Prominent critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi has quoted her at length in his hate-filled books.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/must-watch-anti-white-marxist-professor-angela-davis-is-dumbfounded-when-she-receives-the-shocking-truth-about-her-ancestors/
Americans still have a God Given Right to Defend themselves from these Aholes Attacks.
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Vaccine Mandates Did Nothing to Stop Spread of Covid, Study Finds
Frank BergmanFebruary 23, 2023 – 8:36 am3 Comments
Vaccine mandates that were implemented across the United States did nothing to stop the spread of COVID-19, a new study has found.
In a study conducted by George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, researchers analyzed data to examine the efficacy of citywide Covid vaccine mandates in 2021.
https://slaynews.com/news/vaccine-mandates-did-nothing-to-stop-spread-of-covid-study-finds/
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Pfizer found to have covered up injuries and deaths of study participants in their clinical covid-19 vaccine trials
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-02-22-pfizer-covered-up-injuries-deaths-study-participants.html
Woke Whangdoodles, Woke Whangwackos. When I was fifteen I read to kill a mockingbird. It was my first realization that racism was happening in America. It showed that even if a man was innocent if he was black he was guilty. The white man who defended the black man, even though his livelihood was on the line showed great courage in following his conscience. The left don’t like the book because it shows that a white man cared about the fait of a black man. They had no such trepidation when the white man was Jack Kennedy. https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-florida-schools-to-kill-a-mockingbird-201081596097. The Whangwackos are out in full force this morning. It is the Whangwackos on the left who want eight graders to be banned from reading this book. It was a tough day of revelation when I finished this book but I am thankful that that day came to pass.
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Missouri AG fires Soros-backed St. Louis prosecutor Gardner for missteps
“Instead of protecting victims, Circuit Attorney Gardner is creating them,” the Missouri attorney general said.
The driver in the weekend accident, Daniel Riley, “is a dangerous gunman who should have been in jail,” Bailey said. The suspect was charged in 2020 in connection to stealing a firearm at gunpoint, and since that time he has violated his bond conditions more than 100 times and he never even had a driver’s license, local outlet KMOV reported.
“The St. Louis Circuit Attorney has a long history of failure to prosecute violent crime, with a backlog of at least 3,000 cases.”
https://justthenews.com/government/state-houses/missouri-ag-demands-soros-backed-st-louis-prosecutor-resign-or-be-removed?utm_source=breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
The black news outlet, The Grio, white washes Gardner’s ineptitude. No surprise there. Blacks hate taking responsibility for anything blacks do that is corrupt while blaming whites for, well, everything.
https://thegrio.com/2023/02/23/pressure-grows-st-louis-circuit-attorney-resign-car-crash/
“Pressure grows on circuit attorney to resign after Black teenager critically hurt in crash.
“This incident and others have highlighted the fact that some improvements need to be made in her office,” St Louis Mayor Tishaura O. Jones said Wednesday, according to The Post-Dispatch. “And she really needs to do some soul-searching of whether or not she wants to continue as circuit attorney, because she’s lost the trust of the people.”
The Dutch and French publishers gave a finger to the changes.
Quoting in part from Bliss Perry’s ‘The American Mind’, “The jokes are in the vernacular, but in a vernacular as spoken in a certain social medium.”
The morons who wish to either remove or modify words or meaning of words to fit their felicitous utopian views must be erased. These morons and their utopian paradise fantasy are oblivious to the rule “never give an inch, for that inch could become a mile” or Martin Niemoller’s “First they came for…”. Of course, morons never look past their conceit, righteousness or feeling of superior intellect? The past is written, the present is being written, and the future is an unknown, we must not allow morons to rewrite the past, change the present, or write the future.
Giving definition to vernacular: [spoken as one’s mother tongue, not learned or imposed as a second language] from Bing.
Niemoller himself was misquoted for political reasons. What he had said was “First they came for the Communists” (German: ” Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten, habe ich geschwiegen. Ich war ja kein Kommunist.”) But, as I was growing up in the Cold War, I kept hearing instead “First they came for the Jews.”. ” First they came for the Communists” had and has the virtue not only of being what Niemoller said, but also of being historically accurate. The very evening of the Reichstag Fire, a bunch of Communists were arrested.
But during the Cold War, people were reluctant to say anything that sounded sympathetic to Communists.
“The question I have is what do they do when there is a shock to the system and they are forced to deal with reality?”
Isn’t that a hint of what is happening now?
Are those questions being asked, seriously, by leadership?
Are enough serious people asking such questions?
Can people see reality? It all still seems surreal. And, honest assessments, at all levels and arenas, is hard–not just the truthfulness but also to consider the details and complexities.
Prairie Rose,
Good questions.
Kinda reminds me of the video of that . . . person . . . who is crying, and then screams into the air when it is announced that Donald Trump has been sworn in and is president.
Hot dogs, Armour Hot dogs, what kind of kids eat Armour hot dogs?
Fat kids, skinny kids, kids that climb on rocks.
Tough kids, sissy kids; even kids with chicken pox love hot dogs.
Armour Hot Dogs. The dog kids love to bite.
“Enormous” is a fat improvement. Thank you so much, you entirely reasonable and not at all weird people.
Copyright: “1) the copyright holder can make any changes they want,” Dahl is dead
If one goes to one of his books they will see the copyright in the name of the author, Roald Dahl. Dahl is dead but anonymous is errantly making assumptions. Who has the copyright after his death? What is the law? I assume Penguin complied with the law but it is an interesting question.
A bowlderization is a derivative work, so the copyright holder has to give permission. You’re right in saying a copyright doesn’t disappear when its holder dies. It is property which is passed down through a will or through a state’s intestacy laws. The copyright could have been assigned by the owner to someone else, such as the publisher, which seems likely what happened here, otherwise the publisher is violating the Copyright Act, no?
Bowdlerizing is proper, but I am unsure who has the copyright, a company owned by an independent party, or the publisher.
It is a sign of dishonesty to change words unless properly noted. If words are changed without the author’s permission, the new words should be written in a different font and explained. One should also have reasonable access to the author’s original words.
Leftists hate originality because they feel they have a right to change words at will and do it when they can. They disliked Scalia because he was a textualist and originalist trying to preserve the Constitution.
The copyrights were passed to his family heirs, who sold The Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd (a British company) to Netflix: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/58651623
Go to and frequent old and used book stores. I usually get the original or an earlier reprint if it is substantial in history and other certain fields or is accepted as important literature. Otherwise the digital is easy to use and basically a throw away when you have read it. Also build a library and double joist the floor area under the library. You may overfill and your library might start to creak so this is a way to be sure.
So the old warning to Snowflakes about the contents being unsettling or even offensive is no longer enough. Rewrite them now and then in the future just burn ‘em. Shades of Fahrenheit 451. Teach the snowflakes to be firemen.
Don’t throw away your old encyclopedia. Just like the search engines on the net change and things written on the net change, entire articles in one’s encyclopedia can change as well even when the facts didn’t.