"Ugly" and "Fat" no Longer

The Sensitivity Police rewrite Roald Dahl's Books

Roald Dahl died in 1990 but his stories live on in the more than 250 million copies of his books that have been sold worldwide. “Matilda” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” are two of the popular films based on his books.

Now the Roald Dahl Story company is publishing new editions in partnership with “sensitivity readers” (aka language censors) so the books are “inclusive and accessible.” The company claims the changes made — focused on gender, race, weight, mental health, and violence — were small and carefully considered. It turns out there are actually hundreds of changes. Author Salmon Rushdie accurately calls it “absurd censorship.”

For example, the greedy child of Gustus Gloop in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” is now enormous rather than fat. Willy Wonka's Oompa Loompa workers are now gender neutral, small people replaces small men. Wonderful parents become wonderful family. The same happened to the mysterious figures living in the sky, the Cloud-Men, in "James and the …