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"The campaign to make everything culturally bland, boring and sterile continues" - Summit News.
James Bond 007 has succumbed to the woke mob, or at least the owner of the literary rights to Ian Fleming's novels has.
Of all the idiotic things in recent years, this one really takes the cake. Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels are being censored (this is what's really going on) so that people won't get offended by racial, sexist and other "politically incorrect" terms and attitudes.
Summit News reported on a story in The Telegraph that the James Bond novels of Ian Fleming are to be edited by "sensitivity readers".
They wrote, in part:
And then the woke mob came for Bond.
According to a report in The Telegraph, “sensitivity readers” are being employed to scour the original James Bond books to look for and remove any ‘outdated’ content including ‘racist’ comments.
The latest publications of the books, written by Ian Fleming, will also reportedly contain a trigger warning notifying readers that they may find some of the storylines hurt their feelings.
The warning will read “This book was written at a time when terms and attitudes which might be considered offensive by modern readers were commonplace.”
The editing of the books is to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the first ever Bond book Casino Royale.
What exactly is ‘offensive’ is yet to be determined, but presumably it could extend to the fact that Bond is a straight white man who likes to fratenize with multiple women at any one time, drinks heavily and doesn’t have a single simp cell in his body.
The report notes that ‘sexual descriptors’ have been edited or altogether removed, including one scene in Live and Let Die where a group of men watching a stripper are described being “like pigs at the trough”.
At this rate, they will have to completely rename Octopussy.
Here's what The Telegraph posted, in part:
James Bond novels have been rewritten to remove a number of racial references from Ian Fleming’s work, The Telegraph can reveal.
All of the author’s thrillers featuring 007 are set to be reissued in April to mark 70 years since Casino Royale, the first book in the series, was published.
Ian Fleming Publications Ltd, the company that owns the literary rights to the author’s work, commissioned a review by sensitivity readers of the classic texts under its control.
The Telegraph understands that a disclaimer accompanying the reissued texts will read: “This book was written at a time when terms and attitudes which might be considered offensive by modern readers were commonplace.
“A number of updates have been made in this edition, while keeping as close as possible to the original text and the period in which it is set.”
The changes to Fleming’s books result in some depictions of black people being reworked or removed.
Dated references to other ethnicities remain, such as Bond’s racial terms for east Asian people and the spy’s disparaging views of Oddjob, Goldfinger’s Korean henchman.
References to the “sweet tang of rape”, “blithering women” failing to do a “man’s work”, and homosexuality being a “stubborn disability” also remain.
This is just plain sheer stupidity. What's wrong with, "Don't like it, don't read it"?
Will "Pussy Galore" be soon known as "Penelope Galore"?
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