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The Woke Mob Will Change All The Classics Eventually

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Matt Margolis
Feb 19, 2023
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For years now, Mark Twain’s novels have been revised in recent editions to remove problematic language, and despite the controversy of altering classics, the practice continues and is getting worse. Puffin Publishing, a children’s book imprint of Penguin Random House, is revising the children’s novels of Roald Dahl to r…

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