Re:The rewriting of Roald Dahl is an act of cultural vandalism
by maeil on Monday February 20, 2023 @04:45PM
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That's some bubble you live in, even in the US there's certain regions and industries where some of those words are almost encouraged (so much for "literally anywhere"), let alone the "Western world".
Whatever microcosm you may be in, it's on a very extreme end of the western world and it would be useful to realize this.
Re:The rewriting of Roald Dahl is an act of cultural vandalism
by thiht on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @09:19AM
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> anywhere in the US or western world
Banning words is a very US thing, not "western world". In most countries it's normal to use the words we want to talk about, the words themselves are not "cursed" like Voldemort. Honestly the "x-word" thing is really childish.
There's a difference in using the words as a way to illustrate and using them as insults or bad words. Context matters.
Sometimes it's really a wonder to imagine the world some people here seem to want to live in.