[ SECRET POST #5908 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5908 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Tombstone - Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer]



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[The Other Boleyn Girl]



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[Mass Effect]



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08. [SPOILERS for Iron Widow]




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09. [WARNING for inevitable JKR wank]




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10. [WARNING for discussion of antisemitism]




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11. [WARNING for possible discussion of sexual abuse]


































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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

NA but.... it's really not censorship and it's not erasing the past. It's not a case where people are banning the old books, and it's not a case where the old books are going to be impossible to find. In fact I believe they're still going to be sold by the same company. It's a private company choosing to make edits to the books and sell new editions of them.

And to be clear I'm not particularly in favor of it, I think it's just sort of a silly exercise and a money grab. But really, I mean - it's really not that big of a deal either way. People making changes to new editions of books they own the rights to is just a thing that happens. There are benefits to reading old versions of books that haven't been edited to reflect the times; there are also times where people just want to read a dang book and not have to deal with things like slurs showing up in the book. Both of those things are pretty reasonable to me. It's OK for people to want different things from books. We just don't need to treat it like the end of the world if people print a new version of a book. It's fine. It just doesn't matter that much.

[(Anonymous)]

Clearly you are not a creator of any kind :/
And no, the prior editions weren’t going to still be printed and sold. And there were exactly zero slurs getting erased. They were simply changing the words to reflect contemporary sensibilities. Because apparently that’s easier than teaching children to read critically.

[(Anonymous)]

I just absolutely guarantee you that there are many, many creators out there who disagree with you. Just an absolutely huge number.

And there was about 4 days between the revisions being announced and them announcing they would continue to sell the original versions (and IMO there's almost no chance that they were ever going to stop selling them entirely). Again I don't really think it makes sense to change the language either, I just don't think it matters much, especially when these companies are clearly willing to continue selling the old versions, which are extremely easy to find if you want to. It's just not that big of a deal.

[(Anonymous)]

Several authors have decided to change their own works, which is a different thing to someone else changing the work. Several authors expressed horror at an estate changing the works of a deceased creator. Some of those were the same people. I wouldn’t be surprised if some trusts/estates have been redrafted to prevent this happening to works created by contemporary, living authors.

The plan was to change the books and then a few days later they scrapped that idea because of the backlash. There was never any intent to sell both versions side by side.

[(Anonymous)]

according to this they're selling both versions

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Family/proposed-roald-dahl-books-spark-backlash/story?id=97350999

"The Roald Dahl Classic Collection" from the Penguin imprint will feature the original texts of 17 of Dahl's children's books while the publisher said they would also keep the recently published and separate Roald Dahl books for young readers under the Puffin imprint. The Puffin versions of Dahl's books are meant for younger readers who are new to reading.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah I hadn’t seen that! What I saw was they were changing them and then they backtracked and were leaving the originals up for sale. I think this is a soft step and it still leaves a bad taste because it wasn’t the author’s choice but at least they’re not erasing his word choices completely yet.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

A push against being able to edit old books would be as bad a push for requiring it (i.e. censorship). It's an attempt to control people's freedom to choose what they read. If some people want Roald Dahl stories without casual reminders that the author hated them, and there are publishers willing to give it to them, that's simply them being able to choose their reading experience more freely. If other people want the original versions because they're purists or want to use them as a teaching tool about bigotry (or ya know, they agree with his views which makes them suck, but hatred still isn't and shouldn't be illegal), that's also their choice and no edited versions of the books existing alongside them is taking it away.

[(Anonymous)]

>I wouldn’t be surprised if some trusts/estates have been redrafted to prevent this happening to works created by contemporary, living authors.

Oh, I hope so.