Never one to go a little bit over the top, Piers Morgan has compared the editing of Roald Dahl's books to make them less offensive to 'the cultural purges enforced by communists and fascists throughout history.’
Among the hundreds of changes,
is now ‘enormous’ rather than ‘fat’ and the Mrs Twit of The Twits is no longer ‘ugly’ – but rather ‘beastly’.‘For all of the people, products, books, brands, movies, meals, songs, ideas, and dead historic figures that have been outlawed by the cancel culture vultures, I never thought they’d be feasting on this,’ he began on Wednesday’s Uncensored.
Piers continued: ‘Does your skin crawl as much as mine does when you hear that phrase – sensitivity readers, to ransack the great Roald Dahl’s legendary books.’‘The thought police have taken a meat cleaver to some of the best-loved stories of all time, literally hundreds and hundreds of words and phrases have been cut or completely re-written,’ he went on, saying that it wasn’t ‘offensive to start with’.
The broadcaster went on to ridicule some of the new phrases, saying: ‘In James and the Giant Peach for example, the cloud men are now cloud people, presumably to avoid offending non-binary clouds. ‘The Oompa Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory were described by Dahl as small men, and now they’re simply small people, in case there are any small men wanting to become small women or small non-binaries.“The thought police have taken a meat cleaver to some of the best-loved children’s stories of all time.”
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