No author's work should be edited like the planned Puffin edits unless he is still living to approve or deny them. This is a horrible precedent. And while I suspect Adams was speaking outrageously to make a point, and not necessarily one he subscribed to, he came across as promoting the views as his personal ones. People are not seeing the snark. But while I don't use Tik Tok, I regularly see examples of racial videos by people who do subscribe to outride hate, and they are not removed or dealt with the way he was.
The Dahl controversy forced me to read more about the context of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." The Oompa Loompa's originally being Black and enslaved by Charlie likely represented the state of racial inequality at the time the book was written. It was not necessarily Dahl's belief on how Blacks should be treated. In the '70s, Dahl changed the Oompa Loompa's to white "hippies," as I've read. Here, too, he reveals a cultural dynamic of the times.
No author's work should be edited like the planned Puffin edits unless he is still living to approve or deny them. This is a horrible precedent. And while I suspect Adams was speaking outrageously to make a point, and not necessarily one he subscribed to, he came across as promoting the views as his personal ones. People are not seeing the snark. But while I don't use Tik Tok, I regularly see examples of racial videos by people who do subscribe to outride hate, and they are not removed or dealt with the way he was.
The Dahl controversy forced me to read more about the context of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." The Oompa Loompa's originally being Black and enslaved by Charlie likely represented the state of racial inequality at the time the book was written. It was not necessarily Dahl's belief on how Blacks should be treated. In the '70s, Dahl changed the Oompa Loompa's to white "hippies," as I've read. Here, too, he reveals a cultural dynamic of the times.