And Then They Went After Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple Mysteries Are Being ‘Rewritten for Modern Sensitivities.’
American Thinker | 03/27/2023 | Rajan LaadJust yesterday, The Telegraph reported that Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries are being ‘rewritten for modern sensitivities.’
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The following are some examples.
The 1937 novel Death on the Nile is mostly set in the African continent.
At one point in the novel, a character complains about a group of children pestering her as follows:
“…they come back and stare, and stare, and their eyes are simply disgusting, and so are their noses, and I don’t believe I really like children.”
The above text was altered as follows:
“They come back and stare, and stare. And I don’t believe I really like children”.
Descriptions of a black servant, who is originally described as grinning as he understands to stay silent, is now described as neither black nor smiling but simply “nodding.”
References to the word ‘Oriental’ has been removed, and so have references to the Nubian people.
In a new edition of A Caribbean Mystery from 1964, Miss Marple’s musing that a West Indian hotel worker smiling at her has “such lovely white teeth” has been removed, and other references to teeth have been removed.
… James Bond’s voodoo nemesis in Live and Let Die will be replaced by a white Catholic priest.
… James Bond in “Diamonds Are Forever a Symbol of Patriarchal Wealth Inequity”
One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest will be replaced with
One Flew Over the Mentally Challenged Patient’s place.
Other changes to literature from the past:…
“Odd Job” will be known as “Differently Enabled”.
Other changes to literature from the past:…
Hermione Granger is Trangender.
and everyone thought being a mudblood was shocking enough.
Other changes to literature from the past:…
Moby Dick is decidedly toxic masculinity. We are still trying to figure out what to do with it.
For one thing, the first sentence will read, “Call me Queequeg.”
In the end, Queequeg will be saved by Ishmael’s casket…
The movie ‘Mandingo’ will be replaced with ‘The Biggest Damn African I’ve Ever Seen’.
Othello gets away with it…
The story is moved to NYC and Alvin Bragg refused to prosecute.
Other changes to literature from the past:…
“The African Queen” is troubling on so many levels.
Blazing Saddles will have to be altered to just the opening credits immediately followed by the closing credits.
In Animal Farm, Boxer successfully stages a rebellion, and they celebrate with lots of bacon…
Height Challenged Wymynx (xe/xir)
Old Yeller is saved by a miraculous new treatment created by Anthony Fauchi.
In Charlotte’s Web, Wilbur the pig is killed because meat production causes climate change. Charlotte the spider lives and is allowed to reproduce many times though her offspring become a replacement food source for humans.
I honestly never understood why the word Oriental became ungood. I always thought it meant “far eastern.”
Oh yeah, well, how would you like it if you went over there and they called you a “North American”? Huh? Huh!?
Even if it is Occidental?
We need to reoriental?
The name Almira Gulch is changed to Nancy Pelosi. Dorothy is indicted in NYC for a thought crime for killing the witch. The indictment mentions no statute, and the DA is presenting as evidence a photoshop picture of Dorothy wearing a hat saying “Make Oz Great Again.” L. Frank Baum’s descendants are sent to the DC gulag for making these updates.
Other changes to literature from the past:…
they will be classified as an organic heating source when the power grid fails.
Other changes to literature from the past:…
Little Women henceforth to be known as Little Don’t You Dare Assume My Genderlings
Other changes to literature from the past:…
…Don Quixote will now only tilt at non-renewable sources of energy.
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish becomes
One Fish Two Fish Dumb Fish Blue Fish