OPINION: 'Yes – make sure books in schools are age-appropriate. Yes – make sure parents are aware of what is there. But no – don’t ban, censor, whitewash or outlaw books just because you don’t like the ideas in them,' writes columnist Ted Diadiun.
with discipline or dismissal for teaching it or quoting its language that includes the N-word.
In the case of Dahl’s books, the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph combed through titles such as “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Matilda” and “James and the Giant Peach,”“Language related to weight, mental health, violence, gender and race has been cut and re-written,” the newspaper reported. “Remember the Cloud-Men in ‘James and the Giant Peach?’ They are now the Cloud-People. The Small Foxes in ‘Mr. Fantastic Fox’ are now female.
The changes were wrought by “Inclusion Ambassadors,” whose job it was to make sure there remained nothing in the books that might offend anyone. But then there is author Bill Konigsberg, who has written five books for teenagers, about suicide and labels and LGBTQ+ issues, and advocates the freedom to read books, even when they make some uncomfortable. Konigsberg, who is gay, said he didn’t have those kinds of books when he was a kid, but having them would have helped him.
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