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Re:Roald Dahl: Original books to be kept in print following ... by wellthisisgreat on Friday February 24, 2023 @12:03PM (#34926741)
From the link:

> Known as sensitivity readers, or sometimes authenticity readers, consultants like Sally are a growing part of publishing, hired to correct the pre-publication missteps of authors who don't share the same traits—or "lived experience," to use a favored buzzword—as their characters.

God, what kind of a horrible person would take up such a job. Jesus Christ I mean just don't publish the book don't hire some couch sjw to "fix" it. I guess the author can still choose to not publish

Re:Roald Dahl: Original books to be kept in print following ... by slg on Friday February 24, 2023 @12:25PM (#34927027)
>God, what kind of a horrible person would take up such a job.

Take a job as an editor? That is all this person is doing. It is something that publishers have done forever except this editor has a more narrow scope of what they are editing.

Re:Roald Dahl: Original books to be kept in print following ... by wellthisisgreat on Friday February 24, 2023 @09:30PM (#34933211)
It doesn’t sound like those “sensitivity readers” are editors, more like some weaponized Twitter outrage mob.

I get that the publishers want to preemptively strike down / appease those outragers, but Jesus Christ, to like reading and to become a full-time “holier than thought”-er. This is so depressing

Re:Roald Dahl: Original books to be kept in print following ... by Veen on Friday February 24, 2023 @12:27PM (#34927052)
Lots of people want to work in publishing, especially middle-class English Lit graduates who are most likely to be politically aligned with this sort of editing work.
Re:Roald Dahl: Original books to be kept in print following ... by throwaway12245 on Friday February 24, 2023 @12:21PM (#34926976)
>what kind of a horrible person would take up such a job https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bowdler
Re:Roald Dahl: Original books to be kept in print following ... by cld8483 on Friday February 24, 2023 @12:31PM (#34927097)
Those who can't write, edit.