We need lawsuits — and we need them yesterday — against publishers like Amazon who are hiring snot-nosed college grads to “edit” classic books by retroactively removing “sensitive content.”
Dr. Seuss, Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming — even George Orwell, who warned us about this kind of crap — I really don’t care if their descendants are fine with “sensitivity readers” censoring these books. Leave the damn stories alone.
It’s especially egregious to alter an e-book (talking about you, Kindle) after it’s been purchased:
I suppose this means nothing is safe. Music, movies, TV shows … all of them subject to the whims of woke “editors.”
Lawsuits, please. Yesterday.
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Poker Face
I am going back and forth on this show. One of the early episodes, 2 or 3, had a completely arbitrary bit of MAGA-bashing, when the heroine is listening to the radio in her car. There was no narrative reason for the scene, other than to trumpet to Trump supporters: We here in Hollywood think you suck.
On the other hand, the fourth episode, with Chloe Sevigny as an aging rock star, had a truly brilliant final reveal.
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Scott Adams has been cancelled. OK, he’s one guy.
But if this poll about race relations that Adams was referring to is accurate, how is that not a much, much bigger story?
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Yup, what she said.
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