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Originally Posted by GoldHeart
Like I said by all means alter racist words etc, but alot of the changes are just to be overly PC ....and who else is going to be targeted next? Dickens? ,these books were of their time. You can't change the mind of a dead Author from the past .
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They'd better leave my bae Dickens alone
Overall he's fine tbh. The only thing that might need to be changed (and in some editions, it is) is that Fagin is often not referred to by name, but as The Jew.
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Originally Posted by GoldHeart
Also it's about education ...why don't parents just talk to their kids , why is there an overly sensitive attitude towards the bald witches?. These are caricatures descriptions to easily be formed in your imagination..... especially as a child . it's not about mocking people with cancer or alopecia  . |
Sometimes things get internalised.
As an adult reading the book it might not occur to some to make it clear that not all bald women are witches or whatever, and no it's obviously not about mocking them, but I can see why some might think a line like that is needed.