Rewriting history

[Blue Maverick]

First Dahl and now Fleming, really getting stupid now, its history it’s of it’s time, what next rewrite the bible? I watched Rocky last night and tbh I’d never noticed before Creed gets called a jig! It’s set in the 70s that’s how people talked and things should be learned from this not scrubbed because that means people won’t know what things were like in the past and how things were wrong.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

First Dahl and now Fleming, really getting stupid now, its history it’s of it’s time, what next rewrite the bible? I watched Rocky last night and tbh I’d never noticed before Creed gets called a jig! It’s set in the 70s that’s how people talked and things should be learned from this not scrubbed because that means people won’t know what things were like in the past and how things were wrong.

Just watching this & chatting to Mrs Moon, it's bollocks...roll on the re-writing of Shakespeare, Dickins, Bronte sisters etc.

Only then will all be right with the world.

 

[ell]

Is there a demand for this sort of thing? I've never heard anyone in the pub demanding books are rewritten

 

[Kompany Car]

I can understand kids books to some extent so that would include Flemings Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

But the Bond books were never written for a child audience considering how they depict torture and violence. Im sure that when you become an adult you're intelligent enough to understand that they reflect the times when they were written, warts and all.

As for Shakespeare plays like Othello, depending on the need to be perpetually offended or not, they can be interpreted as very racist or a commentary on racial injustice.

 

[Bluemanc100]

First Dahl and now Fleming, really getting stupid now, its history it’s of it’s time, what next rewrite the bible? I watched Rocky last night and tbh I’d never noticed before Creed gets called a jig! It’s set in the 70s that’s how people talked and things should be learned from this not scrubbed because that means people won’t know what things were like in the past and how things were wrong.

Just suggest that we re-write the Quran... that'll put a stop to it

 

[BimboBob]

Dahl was a weird one, changing fat to enormous. As if no one will be offended by that.

"That dress makes you look enormous."
"Thanks love, especially for not calling me fat."

Mind you, one of my mates has a rule for his kids in his house, the word fat is banned as its derogatory. Next party..."hey Jay, is this full FAT coke?"

Shakespeare won't get touched. He invented hundreds of words.

As a previous poster said...who is asking for these changes?

 

[Innsbruckblue]

It’s all about making money.
Rewrite the stories, re-publish them, and people will buy them.

 

[level_two]

The Bible has been rewritten a few times to be fair..

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Dahl was a weird one, changing fat to enormous. As if no one will be offended by that.

"That dress makes you look enormous."
"Thanks love, especially for not calling me fat."

Mind you, one of my mates has a rule for his kids in his house, the word fat is banned as its derogatory. Next party..."hey Jay, is this full FAT coke?"

Shakespeare won't get touched. He invented hundreds of words.

As a previous poster said...who is asking for these changes?

Eamonn Holmes doesn't like being called fat so I blame him

 

[JASR]

Re-writing, although not great, isn’t the same degree of censorship as carried out with book banning (or even burnings).
As ever it’s the RWNJ of the US who lead on book banings in the western world.
Classics of modern US and western literature like - to kill a mockingbird, animal farm, 1984, the handmaidens tale are regularly banned by school boards run by RW ‘Christian’ religious nuts.

The historical offensive use of characters/caricatures in literature and their removal/alteration, has been happening for years.
Just from my youth, Tintin in the Congo, is pretty offensive with its caricatures, other Tintin books have similar albeit generally lesser caricatures of other non western cultures.
Another comic book from my youth ‘lucky Luke’ - a cowboy - has had another subtle re-adjustment with his previous ubiquitous cigarette hanging from his lip replaced with a hay straw in reprints.

So, small re-writing is.. a reflection of adjustment of attitudes and progression. As long as the reason for it isn’t lost to history, eg whitewashing the past of its badness, then I see no issue.