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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 4

    Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Skeptic Indus

    She's been sanitised, I discovered when I read her with Lucy. It makes some of the sentences quite odd. 'Spanking' got replaced by 'scolding'. golliwogs disappear, non-European xenophobia has gone but they kept the depiction of the Spanish as fiery & the French as unscrupulous.https://twitter.com/Charvakya/status/981604323825147904 …

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    Has Enid Blyton been banned in the UK now?
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      1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 4

        I do find Enid Blyton's xenophobia fascinating. It was so entrenched. In her books, Parrots in England mimic English accurately but just babble in mimicry of other European languages because those are real languages.

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      1. T.J.‏ @tjaffry Apr 4
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        Any idea when they were sanitised?

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      2. T. Hinker‏ @thought4day2 Apr 4
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        I had a discussion with someone about a potential remake of "The Damn Busters". He was all fired up that they should keep Gibson's dog and it should be called "ni**er". I said I thought that was silly as it would just upset people and really wasn't an important part of the story

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      3. T. Hinker‏ @thought4day2 Apr 4
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        If it was a Guy Gibson biography it would be different and we would discuss his broken marriage and love-affair with an RAF nurse but those details are not important to the story of the Dam Busters raid itself. I guess I'm pretty sanguine with sanitising Enid Blyton too

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      4. T. Hinker‏ @thought4day2 Apr 4
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        Though I have to say I would not be OK with the idea of sanitising the "N" word from Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn. Where I think the language is important to the story

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      1. Kev Pike‏ @KevPike87 Apr 4
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Jail someone for owning a golliwog and Britain will grumble and mutter how ridiculous the country has become, but take away our right to be xenophobic to the French and this country will BURN!

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      1. Skeptic Indus‏ @Charvakya Apr 4
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        Haha, the British don't miss a chance with the French 😉🤣

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