Even Augustus Gloop ain't safe (Dahl being censored)

“It is our responsibility to write our history,” said the home affairs minister, Amit Shah, in a 2019 speech.
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That imo is fine, but you HAVE to include all of the facts that come with it.

But I guess this is no different from how history has treated the bible.
 
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bigmike20vt said:
not saying at all I agree with it but it's not that unusual is it?
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It is somewhat seeing as its a change in school textbooks away from the established facts.
Basically propaganda.
I remember back to my first history lessons in high school, ww1, and it was basically a study of how stupid it all was including the arrogance and failure of the British government and generals which were symbolic of the class structure.
It was great!
 
yes - higher moral standards from that author - if you heard interview with him suggested he would try and write into his will 'rules', so no adaption in future years

The playwright Martin McDonagh has said theatres have refused to revive his work because he would not allow changes to the language.
He blames "petty outrage" for some venues wanting to make his plays more "palatable".
It is a "major problem", he told BBC Radio 4's Today, and a "dangerous place" for writers.
McDonagh's film The Banshees of Inisherin was nominated for nine Oscars earlier this year.

His 2003 play The Pillowman, which concerns a writer imprisoned by a totalitarian state, is being revived in June on London's West End starring Steve Pemberton and Lily Allen.
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McDonagh has long courted controversy with his fictional work.
In 2006 he told the New Yorker magazine that his play The Lieutenant of Inishmore was the result of "trying to write a play that would get me killed".
The play satirised an IRA paramilitary returning home and violently avenging the death of his cat
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lot's of irony for the content of his plays - haven't seen his film.


censorship - on the other hand I think the stupid labour party needs censoring for their social media junk, we don't need another clown as pm/keir; today, trying to double down pretending it's an advert strategy
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Dis86 said:
It is somewhat seeing as its a change in school textbooks away from the established facts.
Basically propaganda.
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i could be wrong but my understanding is that is literally what huge sections of America have done WRT science in schools.

and whilst I have not seen it..... I doubt classic teaching of communism was covered objectively in America back in the day (I am no communist but it's not the devilish practice that some people seemed to think it was not that long ago imo
 
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bigmike20vt said:
i could be wrong but my understanding is that is literally what huge sections of America have done WRT science in schools.

and whilst I have not seen it..... I doubt classic teaching of communism was covered objectively in America back in the day (I am no communist but it's not the devilish practice that some people seemed to think it was not that long ago imo
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America didn't really re-write. They just neglected to put the correct bits in in the first place! India are actively re-writing.
 
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