The woke censors and book burners have thus far slashed and burned their way through Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels. They outright banned a number of Dr. Seuss’s books. How far were they going to push it?
Next up is Agatha Christie. Like Fleming, she’s the author of a fairly popular fictional protagonist and some popular novels in general. So it was time for some super-inclusive censorship.
Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries have had original passages reworked or removed in new editions published by HarperCollins.
HarperCollins is NewsCorp, which is to FOX News, the Daily Mail and other Murdoch properties.
Digital versions of new editions seen by The Telegraph include scores of changes to texts written from 1920 to 1976, stripping them of numerous passages containing descriptions, insults or references to ethnicity, particularly for characters Christie’s protagonists encounter outside the UK.
The author’s own narration, often through the inner monologue of Miss Jane Marple or Hercule Poirot, has been altered in many instances. Sections of dialogue uttered by often unsympathetic characters within the mysteries have also been cut.
This seems to be even more comprehensive and slash-and-burn than the Dahl cuts.
Christie’s first Poirot novel was written in 1916. That’s over a hundred years ago. So the retroactive censorship is moving further back in time. (There have been some rewritten woke versions of Shakespeare but no one pays much attention to them and they haven’t by any stretch of the imagination replaced the originals.)
When will the first 19th-century book be censored? What about an 18th-century book?
Considering the massive body of literature, the censors will be kept very busy. Unless they outsource this to AI and with the clumsiness of the cuts, they probably have.
Next time you’re in the market for an Agatha Christie novel, make sure it hasn’t been published in the last 5 years.
There’s a woke perfessor at some college who’s been adulterating Shakespeare. The bard of the ages! Leftwing lunacy and fascism has no limits.
She’s black, of course. She’s probably mad that Shakespeare is more revered than tribal tales of people pounding on logs and boiling other people in cooking pots.
Censorship is bad. Agreed.
By the way, describing Agatha Christie as “the author of a fairly popular fictional protagonist and some popular novels in general” is hilarious.
Agatha Christie is the second bet-selling fiction author IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. Just behind W. Shakespeare.
You’re not a fan, I guess.
I didn’t even mention her, dumbass. I love the movies based on her novels.
Just so long as you have something to disagree about.
Next on the list will be the cave paintings by the European Cro-Magnons, and the hieroglyphs on the pyramids in Egypt and Central America. And don’t forget the Navajo rock paintings in the Southwest.
Ban them all!!!!
I think it’s safe to say it will never end.
It could end tomorrow if these efforts were widely met with the scorn and ridicule that they deserve. Nothing succeeds better than laughter to end lunacy.
They already did it to the great anti racist novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by You Know Who.
So when do the Woke pinheads start burning books like the nazis did? first it was Dr. Suses then Shakespear now Agatha Christy just wait the Woke Nazis/Commies will target Dick & Jane
Oh, they’re so WHITE! It makes POC’s feel threatened.
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I suggest that Robert Louis Stevenson will be on the doc soon, and that they will go after Mark Twain with a vengance.
The new rewritten and entirety inoffensive Twain will be great.
Especially when all the protagonists are trans
And the Berenstain Bears.
Try reading Panic in Needle Park in the Reader’s Digest Condenced Book edition.