Woke word police SCRUB books by Agatha Christie

The woke word police are at it again, this time scrubbing very popular books by Agatha Christie of what they deem as ‘offensive language’.

One absurd change was the removal of the words ‘Nubian people’ and replacing the word ‘native’ with ‘local’.

Here’s more via Deadline:

Agatha Christie is the latest bestselling novelist to get the rewriting treatment for 2023 readers, according to a British newspaper.

The bestselling novelist in the world, Christie created enduring popular sleuths Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, and the Daily Telegraph reports that new editions of both these series have had original passages amended or removed by publisher Harper Collins.

The Telegraph states that digital versions of new editions of the books written between 1920 and 1976 (the year of Christie’s death) include text stripped of “descriptions, insults or references to ethnicity, particularly for characters Christie’s protagonists encounter outside the UK.”

For example, in the book Death on the Nile – published in 1937 and recently remade for the big screen by Kenneth Branagh – references to “Nubian people” have been removed, as have several references to non-British characters’ physiques. The word “local” replaces “native”

A line in Christie’s debut novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles which has Poirot commenting on a character being “a Jew” has gone. And Christie’s narration and sections of dialogue uttered by unsympathetic characters have also been cut, according to the newspaper.

This is ridiculous. These radical revisionists have no right to scrub books by any author, much less books by someone as popular as Agatha Christie. In doing this they are destroying the intent by the author.

Also why not just let people decide whether they choose to buy these books with these so-called offensive words in them?

I just wonder how far these radical revisionists will go. It was reported recently that not only were certain books scrubbed by book publishers, but the same books already purchased by readers were also scrubbed on their kindles.


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