You can't say that!

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(NOTE: THE INTREPID SAMBO WHO DEFEATED THE BEAST AND CAME HOME SAFELY WAS AN INDIAN LAD, not african: there are no tigers in africa)

I’ve been reading with horror the rise of “sensitivity readers” over the past decade or so, woke idiots who screen manuscripts before publication and demand that authors make changes in their writing to avoid offending similarly-idiotic woke readers. Incredibly, although publishers are responsible for much of this phenomenon, young woke authors are willingly and enthusiastically doing it themselves, even hiring multiple sensitivity readers to ensure that they haven’t offended any one of the thousands of victimhood classes, from blacks, to women, to transvestites, paraplegics, and obese albinos suffering from an anxiety disorder.

But what was a mere trend fifteen years ago has now become standard practice. This week, Roald Dahl's children’s books have made the news because with the consent of his heirs, the publisher and holder of the copyrights to his entire opus has bowdlerized them, and rewritten entire passages to meet the new standards of the woke.

Here’s an example of what the publisher has done:

It’s ironic, maybe, that the same people who are imposing a modern Hays Code on publishing are also screaming about the “rights” of pre-teens to have books with graphic illustrations of gay sex in school libraries. “No censorship!” they cry, when they really mean “only we shall control”. Bah.

Books like “Gender Queer”.

Or “Perfectly Normal”

Warning: the movement has metastasized to the fashion industry: shield your eyes.