Seth Abramson

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@krippler Thank you! So am I — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyone who has ever published a book (I have published 18) knows that it is an *industry*, not a tea party, and 99% of the time it is *living* authors being told to change their precious words for money A dead author? Word changes are like a *daily occurrence* for outdated books — PolitiTweet.org

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I bet all the people angry about the Roald Dahl thing today were *incensed* when they made movies from Dahl books and changed words to make money in *exactly the same way* the book rights-holders are now changing words to make money 😒 It’s all *capitalism*, folks, not leftism — PolitiTweet.org

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@woodsz33 @equaleyes1 So you want the government to step in and force businesses to publish the words the government wants? Just want to make sure I understand the brand of fascism you are sponsoring here — PolitiTweet.org

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@karenmccandless @equaleyes1 See the full thread — PolitiTweet.org

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@GottaLo74831194 @equaleyes1 Not dying and it is an anthill — PolitiTweet.org

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@ronniebeck68 Bingo! — PolitiTweet.org

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Exactly! Apparently all those people who worked on the Bible are now politically correct leftists lol This is all so silly, and so obviously a new product (as fraudulent as all the others) from Far-Right Outrage Inc. Those who know publishing and literary history aren’t fooled — PolitiTweet.org

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Exactly! Apparently all those people who worked on the Bible are now politically correct leftists lol This is all so silly, and so obviously a new product (as fraudulent as all the others) from Far-Right Outrage Inc. Those who knows publishing and literary history aren’t fooled — PolitiTweet.org

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@Sweordbora Oh, I know! I didn't mean to give that impression. I really appreciated your comment and wanted to highlight it! Thank you for it! 😁👍 — PolitiTweet.org

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@ConnorW564 Literally not censorship, a word whose meaning you need to Google — PolitiTweet.org

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@algingersmith Read the whole thread sport — PolitiTweet.org

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I know. On top of everything else, I worked in publishing for years. I’m just so angry that ideologues have made an issue out of nothing for the sake of their culture war, dragging really serious concepts like “censorship” and “fascism” into basic publishing (capitalist) conduct. — PolitiTweet.org

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Just so I'm clear, what would you call the government entity that you would erect to overrule the rights-holders and force them to market the book with the words you want? I mean obviously that’d be a Nazi-like fascist operation, but what would you call it if you were running it? — PolitiTweet.org

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@mizhong Just so I'm clear, what would you call the government entity that you would erect to overrule the rights-holders and force them to market the book with the words you want? I mean obviously that’d be a Nazi-like fascist operation, but what would you call it if you were running it? — PolitiTweet.org

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Who changed the words? The rights-holder? And why did they change them? To continue to make money off the book? Then that’s *exactly* how all this works and has *always* worked. Anyone *overruling* the rights-holder and demanding a work stay the same would be the fascist here. — PolitiTweet.org

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When a tempest-in-a-teapot like this crops up just to advance a far-right “culture war” I really wish all those who fall for it would just write on Twitter “I AM VAGUELY SCARED AND SAD AND ANGRY ABOUT THE WORLD CHANGING” so we could all instantly see what this is really all about — PolitiTweet.org

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And when stupid people start declaring that they care deeply about “censorship” without realizing that by falsely calling capitalist rights-holders voluntarily updating a product to keep it lucrative “censorship” they’re proving they don’t even know what censorship is, I lose it — PolitiTweet.org

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What it comes down to is that some people value their own nostalgia over the books or authors they claim to love *or* the children of today they claim to care about, so they claim as “principle” what is actually an emotional response that hurts books’ posterity *and* today’s kids — PolitiTweet.org

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But here’s the main thing people are missing: this was a decision made by *capitalists* who want the lifespan of a lucrative property extended, this wasn’t some fascist government action imposed upon an artist, and if you don’t understand the difference *that* is the real problem — PolitiTweet.org

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And if what you got from Roald Dahl’s books was that Augustus Gloop was “fat” but not the *nearly synonymous* “enormous,” or that the Oompa Loompas were “little men” with nary a single woman among them, I’d say as a former English professor you *missed the point of what you read* — PolitiTweet.org

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Virtually every book any of us read as kids that meant a lot to us has already been lost to time completely—if they even exist in print anymore hardly anyone reads them—so the idea that changing a few words in Dahl books so that *they* can live on is a major crime is preposterous — PolitiTweet.org

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Dahl was a bad man and there’s no one alive today unrelated to him who particularly cares about his feelings—what we care about is finding a way to have words that meant something to us continue to mean something to kids living in a very different time, and this is how that works — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m an author, editor, English PhD, avid reader, and lover of the work of Roald Dahl, and if after I die someone wants to change a few words in a book I wrote so many more generations will read my words, my heirs can still make money, and my words can remain relevant, *fantastic* — PolitiTweet.org

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@equaleyes1 Except that in a sense it’s not—because to care about war and pandemic and climate and fascism is to have a sense of history and scope and context and consequences, whereas to be worked up over minor updates to an old book is to lack perspective on basically anything that matters — PolitiTweet.org

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The way we speak and the way we raise kids changes over time and *always has*, so if the options are for beloved authors from long ago to cease to be read at all or making the most minor imaginable changes so that their work can live on, that’s an *easy decision*, not a melodrama — PolitiTweet.org

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If you think that the rights-holders to Roald Dahl’s work changing the adjective to describe Augustus Gloop from “fat” to “enormous” matters *at all* in the face of a land war in Europe, a global pandemic, an ever-devolving climate disaster and rising fascism worldwide, *grow up* — PolitiTweet.org