Roald Dahl books censored: 'You should be ASHAMED' - David Starkey clashes with Rebecca Reid

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[@noelward8047]

If Dahl's books are so 'bad' how did those of us that read, unsupervised ever survive !?! This woke nonsense has to stop.

[@jennyj0007]

Her agreement has no logic.

[@michaelcoward1902]

You know you can still freely buy the original right? It's not been taken off the shelves, they've just made a new edition...it really is nothing to get worked up into hysterics about...

[@LiveFromLondon2]

@@michaelcoward1902 thin end of a wedge.

[@Whiskey0880]

Coward by name, coward by nature.

[@beecat9951]

​@@michaelcoward1902we can be worked up by the intention behind censoring children's books, with or without your permission thanks!

[@jackiestewart3651]

David is 100% correct..authenticity is being banned by the look of things

[@stuartmenziesfarrant]

Not on my watch!

[@tomwright9904]

I think she's 100% wrong instead. The concept that a publisher should take on the role of a parent and rewrite fiction is disturbing. My point of agreement is that perhaps the content of a book should be made clear to the parent.

[@oldshiny3012]

he def out foxed her at the end lmao

[@romulus3345]

It's called Cultural Marxism.

[@eawe]

Leave our classics alone.

[@bjorklive2379]

I read Roald Dahl when I was a kid. Devoured it,every book over and over again. I'm not a racist,I'm not nasty,I'm not a phobe of any sort. I just thank god I grew up then and not now.

[@sadhappy8860]

Even If you were a racist, nasty, phobe, or whatever we are called, etc... I doubt it'd be Dahl's influence.

[@pocalypsetours]

I said the same as this. This utter madness has made me produce videos looking at how we solve this problems. Kindle will AUTOMATICALY edit the works of Roald Dalh. This is first. Today I read the UK Government want to ban Orwell 1984 and other works as they "promote" extremism This madness must stop as what comes next is literally everything 1984 warns us about.

[@sadhappy8860]

@@pocalypsetours How does anyone think "Shall we ban 1984" without thinking "hang on a second"? World is nuts.

[@njerzynek]

why thank a fictional person some believe live in the sky but I'm glad I grew up in the 80'3/90's!

[@paulinegallagher7821]

Exactly. I read the Witches, it scared the shit out of me, and i moved on with my life

[@AdAstra78]

That Rebecca woman is infuriating on a level seldom seen. What a genuinely disturbing mindset.

[@richatlarge462]

To use one of their replacement words, she is "enormously" fervent. 😂

[@matthwe3468]

She should just lock herself in a room with Postman Pat books which the only "safe" books I can think of off the top of my head.

[@Cactuscupholder]

When you don't challenge children, you get adults like Rebecca Reid

[@julienewman1761]

So true. Obviously "karen" wasn't told no by her useless parents and now we ha0pve overgrown spoilt kids.

[@lindapullan6937]

That's a frightening thought

[@robbothegreat1368]

Spot on

[@bellesblues]

Indeed. Soft, indulgent and weak adults.

[@Scripture-Man]

Yeah, I bet her parents never smacked her. That kind of neglect leads to this level of foolishness.

[@alanmackinnon3516]

The only person who has any right to change these books is the Author.

[@greyvoice7949]

Surely if the author changed the book it would need a new title as it would no longer be the same as the original and thus break some kind of law to market it as the same? James and the giant peach. Woke edition...

[@johnwade1095]

​@Grey Voice I don't thing so, but they might want to label it as amended for clarity.

[@witchygal2703]

This. 100%.

[@greyvoice7949]

@Iflyfree always I was wondering if that was possible if the people doing it owned the rights?

[@Hiddenronin]

She outed herself talking about "The Twitts" “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” The opposite of how she was trying to characterize it. Absolutely vile person.

[@The_Mighty_Fiction]

Also Snow White. The grief-stricken prince believed she was dead. He was kissing her goodbye, not forcing sexual advances on her. How is this halfwit unable to understand stories for barely literate children?

[@dantewilliams2757]

I was about to say

[@johnwoods7650]

You are right. It is figurative. People such has her can't tell the difference between what is real and what is figurative, nor can they tell the difference between make believe and reality. They should not be allowed within a million miles of an imaginative child.

[@vin8754]

Its such a shame to see such a fun idea/concept get absolutely defiled.

[@brahmbandyopadhyay]

_Exactly_ , right?

[@weepingangel6805]

I love how David trapped her at the end asking her if she wanted the Koran censored - she was too shook to answer because she knows what would happen next haha well done Starkey!

[@foreverhungry7777]

Really? I thought it under-handed and nefarious, just like how editing Roald Dahl's stories is nefarious. Just goes to show each extreme side hates the other because they are more alike than not.

[@jamiesimms7084]

@@foreverhungry7777 The part where you said "each extreme side hates the other because they are more alike than not" is the a true statement and can be applied to many things, especially in today's world, but sadly not for what you wrote it for. Weeping Angel 2 is right, the question and and comparison was good because it exposes her fallacy and is not even remotely under hand or nefarious. Maybe you were confused.

[@franceskronenwett3539]

She was too scared to answer that question as she knew she would be the sitting target for radical Muslims.

[@The_Mighty_Fiction]

@@foreverhungry7777 I thought it was revealing of a double standard. She's very secure in her convictions until she's called to risk her fat neck for them.

[@gwangi64]

@@foreverhungry7777 Utter BS. When has Starkey ever suggested censoring anyone's books?

[@wendyhall8182]

David Starkey is totally correct! This woman doesn't realise how utterly ridiculous most of her arguments were. Kids are mollycoddled too much these days, emotionally stunted and unable in a lot of cases to deal with life.

[@Scripture-Man]

All her arguments were either wrong or just plain lies. The most notable one is that she accused Roald Dahl of saying that ugly people are all bad and beautiful people are all good. That is an absolutely outrageous misrepresentation of what Mr Dahl said - in fact, he said quite the opposite in The Twits - he said that it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, if you have a good heart then this will shine out and make you look lovely! So Ms Reid is, with all due respect, a foolish woman who has been indoctrinated by foolish people.

[@lavienestpasunlongfleuvetr2559]

Precisely - she evidently wants to raise naive adults who cannot think for themselves because 'Mummy' has controlled their every waking moment, and even their minds, since birth. Her children certainly won't be the better for it.

[@iohnxxxx]

@@Scripture-Man well said she is a typical brainwashed fruitcake a example of left wing education

[@cliff.p.resnick823]

@@Scripture-Man Rebecca Reid an example of filling quotas in education

[@rileyperkins2724]

Go to America where everything is sugar-coated. You don't adopt, you 're-home; ' you don't talk to someone, you 'share' with them; you don't convert anything, you 're-purpose' it; an illegal alien is 'undocumented;' a connection is a 'nexus;' a janitor is a 'sanitary engineer;' someone who is crippled was first 'handy-able' but at last count was 'physically disadvantaged;' the list goes on and on, becoming more and more delusional and ridiculous as time passes.

[@bryanbelshaw7725]

But they claim that a child knows if they're 'transgender', but need guidance over a children's book??? Contradictions galore.

[@benfisher1376]

Haha great point.

[@samysam645]

Exactly

[@beecat9951]

And Rebbeca is thoroughly pro transgenderism. What an awful hypocrite she is!

[@harrygraham5810]

Kids can't read words but grooming them to be trans is ok lol 😂😂 these clowns make clown world interesting but dangerous

[@stevebird7265]

I bet she is all for pervy cross-dressers reading their version of books to little children!

[@-Princesse-]

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.” ― Heinrich Heine

[@zazaiwon87]

Why the hell is she so triggered by children's books?? 😂

[@paulelroy6650]

She has nothing else going on in her life

[@chrispywilliams1992]

Look at her…..

[@garyconyers-davies5781]

She's a children's author. She cares. She's right - the world changes. Do you really think the original sleeping beauty story is okay for children?

[@chrispywilliams1992]

@@garyconyers-davies5781 yea it’s ok. Get over it.

[@garyconyers-davies5781]

@@chrispywilliams1992 The original story is of a king who falls for a young girl who he can't wake up. So he rapes her. You think that's okay for children to read? The modern version, where he kisses her to wake her up, no problem.

[@johnpaulnash8144]

I love that "You adjust to the classic, the classic should not adjust to you". Thank you Dr Starkey.

[@mreale2811]

I’m a granny & Totally 100% agree with Mr Starkey , I’m quite a bit older than him....He may not have children but he knows what he’s talking about....As for the young woman in the blue dress, all I can say is “What nonsense!” If she has kids, she’s teaching them to grow up to be ‘spineless’ by wrapping them up in tissue paper & cotton wool. .... So instead of ERASING THE PAST TO FIT THE PRESENT, how about monitoring all of the crap that young kids are allowed by their CONCERNED parents to watch on the internet...Maybe read out loud the classics to their children while stopping to explain the BAD words.... If a parentless child takes a classic book out of the library & doesn’t understand a particular word ....do what millions have done before...Ask the librarian or a teacher to explain ...or look it up in a dictionary. Maybe this ignorant woman is unaware that going back to the 1940s in U.K. after World War 2 ,( if there was a library still standing) this is what children did after being deprived of one parent or another, either from bombings or being killed in action....this obviously is still going on all over the world today....IMO 🇨🇦🇬🇧

[@hittitecharioteer]

🎯👏🏻

[@georgieboy1958]

We shouldn’t be censoring any books people can make their own minds up

[@mrnice7570]

👏👏

[@Pieguts123]

I am an avid reader and have been since I was at primary school. My mother was also very well read and the only time we discussed reading material was to recommend to the other, but even then it was only in my adult years. What I read as a child was whatever friends recommended and I needed no help or influence from a parent. My interpretation of material was, and is, my own; this skill I have is from a lifetime of practise in thinking for myself. This woman is talking out of the place where the sun don't shine.

[@webbsfan1]

Exactly,she's talking as if children today are incapable of thinking for themselves,which I think is wrong.

[@AOK342]

I don’t think the average person on the left or right wants this to happen. Someone is stoking this culture war for power.

[@roslewis9923]

Correct the thin edge of the wedge, big brother comes for children, a short step then to censor adults

[@matthwe3468]

The sad thing is that poor Dahl isn't here to defend himself.

[@Hascienda27]

Least he died being loved than alive to see himself twisted into something we all know he isn’t anyway

[@jessieweitman-willich6345]

A millennial here and I take David's side. He was so well spoken and had many great points. The "silly and pathetic line" had me laughing..

[@thatbooknerdoverthere7899]

A man with great points and he uses words like "silly" and "pathetic"? Sounds like he doesn't have many great points after all.

[@jameshogg601]

@thatbooknerdoverthere7899 well he says exactly why it's silly and pathetic.

[@oliverleahy6348]

Gen z (sadly) and same here

[@juliemulligan8473]

Go David go, a man with common sense.

[@joycegibbs5267]

fewer and fewer of them terrifyingly !!

[@belledecaucase]

Yes!!! Long live David!!!

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

He has both a frighteningly powerful intellect and considerable common sense. Why else would he have been cancelled?

[@BeeBee10]

Yes and very rare these days!

[@palerider955]

I love how she was terrified to answer the Qur'an question, what a dishonest fool she is.

[@MsDidi38]

No, it was just a stupid question

[@mavericmorph5358]

@@MsDidi38 Why?

[@pneron2032]

Well, who wouldn't be terrified to answer that question. Do you want to be bl*wn up?

[@alistairmaclean6548]

@@MsDidi38 It wasn't that stupid, it showed her up for the cowardly fool she is

[@nowayjose9786]

@@MsDidi38 It was a great question, and it uncomfortably exposed her.

[@jamesg6319]

This man is a life saver, pure common sense, how can you disagree with him.❤

[@aaronmatthews1236]

I feel sorry for her children 😢

[@traceyjohns3490]

That woman is everything that's wrong with the world today. How absolutely infuriating.

[@jamesrobert4106]

I wish George Carlin was still alive. He would have a field day with these freak show idealists.

[@MissClassix]

She also looks like someone who has been insulted many times.

[@brianmeen2158]

I truly despise people like her

[@robertmac9057]

She works for The Guardian. Nuff said.

[@MissClassix]

@@robertmac9057: Says it all.

[@quatz1981]

People like her are what is wrong with this world. We are descending into complete madness.

[@timecapsule.]

We are not descending into madness... We have reached peak madness.

[@quatz1981]

@@timecapsule. Think you are right.

[@frankgradus9474]

She should write her own books for her children then, and keep them, her children, away from Dahl's books. I'm sorry for her kids. Wokery is a state of mind. Twisted mind.

[@realMaverickBuckley]

Look at the vitriol on her face.

[@bitcoinisfreedommoney.fckt2663]

Stop whining and buy Bitcoin. It solves this nonsense

[@jamesbentall3984]

Read all the Roald Dahl as a child and never thought that it's ever affected my life . I remember watching the exorcist uncut as a child and instead of the cut version because it was better !! She's a prime example of the mampy pampy frightened generation

[@Dhruv_Dogra]

The old gentleman is very courageous indeed. He isn't politically correct st all. Very rare in today's generation

[@proworlduk4233]

No, no, no censorship, stop changing things to protect feelings, it is ridiculous.

[@greyvoice7949]

People need their feelings to be challenged!

[@milly4556]

The whole point of a book is people have these personalities/differences etc. why should we censor that?? It’s a STORY!!!

[@johnnycalvino7490]

It's not even about other's feelings, because no one is genuinely offended. It's all about virtue signalling.

[@angelaeastwood3938]

I agree it's the people themselves that has the issues of being offended with all things . 🙄

[@anthonytaylor9232]

@@milly4556 personalities and differences are not confined to stories and books. They exist within the human condition, and are usually the sources for STORIES !

[@El.Cid17]

Does Rebecca understand these are stories, and are not real life?

[@greyvoice7949]

Nope she is just one of those people that takes offense for the sake of taking offense...

[@user-zm9eb6rg4e]

The woke interpret everything as real life

[@rickjensen2717]

No....next question...

[@Kyle-sr6jm]

Woke hate everything that counters their ideology.

[@paulmcnicholas3846]

​@@greyvoice7949 she takes offence because its very lucrative at the minute.

[@iveneverseenahealthyvegan.9885]

Freedom of speech should be the same as Freedom of the written word. Some say words and write words not everybody likes. Don't read or listen, It's so easy...

[@SimonJones265]

Read many Roald Dahl books in school and i never questioned the words used. I only cared about the stories. Fantastic books by a fantastic author.

[@spikeus3039]

As a kid growing up in the 70's I was a member of the Penguin book club and read alot of Dahl's books before I was 11 with no teacher or parent telling me their interpretation. I can't think of anything more disturbing and dull than listening to an adult telling me what the author really meant...Just bloody patronising!

[@greyvoice7949]

Brainwashing...

[@Joyce-Mackey]

Agree, my younger daughter born in 1968, once a reader, read any book she could get hold of, whatever she pleased. Why sensor books? Rewrite them? Ridiculous!!

[@fostexfan160]

Well said. You have obviously learnt the whole purpose of Dahls books

[@flinch622]

That reminds me of a great scene in Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield. After him perhaps paying Vonnegut to help write a report on his own work.... the professor flames the paper she received saying "...doesn't know the first thing about Vonnegut". So the moral of the story: read and absorb your own perspective on anything before believing any professor - or new age soapbox minder.

[@spikeus3039]

@@Joyce-Mackey One of the lovely things about reading is the constant thirst for knowledge, either from the Story or the words used within the story. You begin to self teach and question what words mean. The whole thing just opens the mind up to other possibilities. Dahl's mischief was brilliant for Children!

[@kirsten9581]

She’s only offended because most of the words apply to her

[@jackedwards6401]

This comments wins

[@latchdoorlatch996]

Bravo 👏🏻

[@kingloki-yz5yl]

i CONCUR, WELL SAID.

[@kathryngardiner7695]

Truth

[@Peter-uy3ti]

She'll be the next princess in the new Princess and the frog

[@doctorsilver181]

I read Charlie and the chocolate factory to my Mum in the kitchen as a 6 year old, so proud I could read a book , I am now 52 , my Mum is 82, she still remembers that .

[@davekiddie4467]

Have you left the nest yet?

[@stephfoxwell4620]

So kids can't read fat or ugly but can be read to by a giant transvestite in stockings and a basque.

[@georgieboy1958]

You are absolutely right

[@louminarty]

Your dad?

[@Baglady111]

@@louminarty Grow up, you’ve just embarrassed yourself.

[@dontlooknow.]

@@Baglady111 He embarrasses himself on a pretty regular basis.

[@cassandrade-wolfe6926]

Exactly Steph. 🤷

[@jsmith3908]

God Bless David Starkey. A true British original and a national treasure.

[@mssami1664]

I mainly agree with him, but what he said about the Quran is completely wrong. What he described is in the Bible but not in the Quran

[@iohnxxxx]

@@mssami1664 go and read willy wonka book

[@belledecaucase]

​@@mssami1664Read verse 34 Surat Al Nisa. It teaches husband s can lightly hit their wives if they suspect high handedness from their wives.

[@iohnxxxx]

@@belledecaucase go read willy wonka book ease ur brain

[@ljon2243]

Unless you are unquaxed. He doesn't like that sort of person.

[@dictionarypictionary9872]

“I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.”

[@robertsmuggles6871]

she reminds me of Violet Elizabeth Bott from Just William.

[@bluj78]

Whatever you think of him, Starkey's ability to elucidate a point is impressive. He nails it in the first 30 seconds.

[@philg7889]

Facts not feelings. So much more efficient.

[@oldrope6349]

and then slam dunks it with the korans teaching children to hate everybody that disagrees. but it does teach how to divorce little girls 65:4 that havent started their periods

[@stevetodd7030]

I love David Starkey, he was cancelled by the woke left because he speaks the truth. He made that large Woman look daft.

[@julienewman1761]

Not large. Fat.

[@adetolaayodele3425]

You are a ''full''. He does not speak the truth all the time.

[@RussiaIsARiddle778]

@@adetolaayodele3425But it is HIS truth. Ha 😂 🫢 you can’t have it both ways.

[@stephencollins9062]

@@adetolaayodele3425 groomer spotted.

[@stuartmenziesfarrant]

...it isn't hard to do!

[@cjlloyd53]

I was a child when this issue was about Noddy and the books disappeared off the library shelves for a long time. My siblings, friends and I were outraged because we loved Noddy and we were all indignant that adults were inferring that we didn't know right from wrong. We knew it was fiction. We knew Noddy was naughty: That was the appeal. We also knew not to copy him. Don't denigrate children's intelligence, give them the opportunity to learn and discern. I'm a teacher BTW and understand that children are able to be critical thinkers.

[@martineastland2455]

The Prince kissed Snow White goodbye when she died. He wasnt trying to violate her ffs!! Get a grip!!!

[@carys4231]

Under no circumstances should anyone feel they are in the position to edit another writer’s work, change the language, the rhythm and thoughts. It’s outrageous! Read a different child’s book, in that case - just find something else. All authors should be able to write as they choose, without limit on their creativity and imagination - as mentioned by Queen Consort Camilla a few days ago 👍👍 Starkey is right - it’s pathetic!

[@stephencollins9062]

They have already done it to Catch-22, abhorrent vandalism

[@carys4231]

@@stephencollins9062 - it’s a slippery slope to ‘thought police’ and an utterly homogenised world - both in literary context and spoken word too. We all need to hang on to the original works!

[@anthony5868]

@@carys4231 - it’s not a “slippery slope to”, it’s a cliff we’ve already leapt off. Just most don’t realise it yet.

[@tomwright9904]

Yeah... but this points at q motive for me. Allowing publishers to make money from a franchise that would otherwise become valueless. The discussion then becomes about how to protect the "cultural commons feom capitalism'. Don't buy it and moan us one defence. Banning the book seems extreme.... so then you get into mandating labelling and how much you should do it. The conservative equivalent of misinformation.

[@kimberleymarkova3641]

Yep, just consign it all to the bin. Not worth the time to edit.

[@meganturner1456]

You CANNOT change an author’s writing. This is DESPICABLE

[@mancebo7]

Anyday now they'll be retouching the paintings of the great masters...

[@Scripture-Man]

I agree with what you said: "You CANNOT make adjustments to an author’s writing. This is TOTALLY LAME"

[@theladdieallan]

Totally agree this is getting disgusting now.

[@Scripture-Man]

@@1rickslater I'm not sure what the Bible has to do with my little gag above, but as a keen Bible translator myself, I have no problem with Bible translations! Jesus commanded His followers to make disciples of all nations, which you can't do if they can't even read the Bible! :D

[@Scripture-Man]

​@@1rickslater Ah yes, I see. I agree with you about adaptations being fine. But IMHO there's a fundamental difference between creating a new adaptation or interpretation of a work, and just plain editing the original as is being done here! One is creative, adding something new to the artistic pool; the other is destructive, removing or censoring the original. I'm personally very happy that they made a "new" Superman in 1978, and a "new" Batman in 1989, instead of sticking with the old versions! :D Many such tales can be re-told time and time again in different ways with broad new interpretations, using new media and new storytelling techniques, suitable for a new audience. And that's all perfectly good fun. But what you really must not do is go back and permanently change the original work simply because you disagree with what the author wrote. To re-publish a man's books, with his name on them, yet containing new words he never wrote. That's terrible! Only the original author is entitled to make those changes. Only George Lucas has the right to modify the narrative of his Star Wars trilogy. As for the Bible, it's fascinating you should mention that, as it's a subject I am particularly zealous about. And let me just say a few words in case you find this interesting… I wasn't raised Christian, and didn't used to think the Bible was anything significant, perhaps wondering if there was some truth to parts of it, though I discounted the parts which seemed too incredible to be real. However, in my life, God has taken me through a series of profound spiritual revelations. He has spoken to me, made Himself known to me, with signs and visions, and I've had my eyes opened to so much. I've done almost a 180° turn in my life, in terms of what I believe, and all my values. I've come to realise that the Bible isn't some hap-hazard collection of ancient, irrelevant texts, randomly cobbled together and modified countless times. Nor is it some fallible creative work of folklore written by men with outdated ideas-even though it may (deceptively) appear so. The Bible is, in fact, the eternal, inerrant, spiritual word of God, where every sub-book, chapter and verse is present and correct, with its compilation having been overseen by God's guiding hand across time and space. So while the Bible was written by human beings, God Himself is the true author, working through them. (Kind of like how in Transformers Bumblebee speaks by re-tuning the radio, compiling other men's words to get his own message across!) I've also come to learn that the Bible is provably true, containing hundreds of predictions which came true, often with astounding accuracy, plus scientific detail that no one at the time could have verified but we now know to be true. The text itself also has amazing mathematical properties which prove it to be divine! So while I'm all in favour of translating or modernising the vocabulary of the holy texts, the words themselves are extremely precious - perfect and divine, and should therefore never be changed, removed, or added to. In fact, God Himself warns against editing the Bible - right at the very end of the Bible, the third verse from the end: "​For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book." If anyone's still reading this…wow! You have some patience! :D I've got videos coming soon(ish) so feel free to keep an eye on my channel :-)

[@WoodlandAsh]

I’m a gay mid-30s married man. I grew up on Dahl’s books, they opened the door for my love of literature when I was very young. They never were or are offensive, they simply stoked my imagination with wonder & humour. Make no mistake, this type of soft-censorship under the guise of concern for wellbeing, is a noose around our necks that we should both adamantly & enthusiastically renounce and resist at every turn. Children need fear, they need death and sadness and real life. They need this to understand emotion and balance & they are often far more perceptive to it than adults realise. They crave it too. They enquire about it and are often discouraged for their asking. We should not be shielding them from the reality of life, but we should be ensuring things are accessed at appropriate age stages. This used to be called parenting and was the responsibility of the child’s biological progenitors.

[@franny3995]

Well I read Ronald Dahl’s book as a kid in the 90s and my parents never talked to me about the language used and I never went around saying inappropriate or mean things to people because of them. Most kids know right from wrong same with language.

[@peterburgess980]

“Did the Toad consent?” What on earth is this World coming too? Good on you David.

[@leegoodwin9312]

We live in a world where it’s inappropriate to show kids Dahl books but it’s ok to allow them to transition into another sex. Madness

[@mrsfoss3368]

And be read soft and fluffy books by transvestites whilst learning it's ok to be a THEM.... what a mess!

[@lolalola-rg7hk]

madnesss

[@timeweston]

Ms Reid's arguments are the perfect example of what that madness has become. The talking points are all there...pathological empathy to point of self deletion

[@juntus89]

Gender isn't biological sex. It's "madness" that you Lee still don't understand the difference. Get an education son.

[@stevenclark1973]

"Don't read Dahl books but here's a phone with an internet connection.. ...go and play"

[@GG-jw8pt]

What about this for a book title - The Girl Who Never Got Asked To Dance. 😂

[@samjmk3029]

i read Charlie and the chocolate factory but didn't go around calling people with dwarfism oompa loompa's and i watched pulp fiction when i was 8yrs old but i didn't go around swearing and killing people... she has no valid point with saying it effects how children grow up... its the parents that teach there kids manners, discipline and common sense.

[@foreverhungry7777]

Her argument was there may not be responsible parent figures and she essentially wants to act as the de-factor parent. That to me is just beyond weird.

[@sqwalnoc]

can you imagine walking into an art gallery, look at a painting and think "I don't like that bit of the painting" and get out your own paints and paint over it?!?!? it's madness. utter cultural vandalism

[@jannenreuben7398]

Absolutely, it's like the guy who buys a historic house and proceeds to rip everything out and turn it into a Barratt shoebox.

[@ArntyouAKAValerieNosey]

It has been done.

[@nightowl7459]

@Steve Mceveryman That's a perfect analogy.

[@Pollydoidle]

Omg don’t give thes3 idiots @ny ideas

[@bushwhackeddos.2703]

She’s the same upper middle class sort, that welcomes in people with attitudes from the stone age

[@frdsg8350]

Words in Charlie's and the chocolate factory are too much for her, but islamic undocumented men in hotels near school? Everything is fine. Sick of these morons.

[@MusicLover-uy7pc]

I am glad I was able to read what ever I wanted. She is nuts.

[@testing7802]

I’d like to tell the woman on the left… I grew up in a single parent home. My dad absolutely neglected me aside from keeping me fed and taking me to school, so I found myself lost in books. This one reason why Matilda appealed to me, because I didn’t have parents who were loving just like her. I read and re read every Ronald Dahl book I could get my hands on and got lost in these worlds .. but at the end of the day I knew that they were stories and fiction. I did not see old women as HAGS or think Mexicans only ate grasshoppers nor was I disturbed by the vicious Knids (though the tunnel scene in the movie was creepy AF) leave these gems of classic literature alone. The kids will be just fine. I grew up getting along well with others and turned into a somewhat successful adult despite being a Ronald Dahl fanatic :)

[@iainsutherland1113]

The debate became “intellectually dishonest” when they chose someone who is ‘intellectually bankrupt’ to try and debate Starkey on this subject. As an older chap, it sends a shiver down my spine that women like this are in charge of raising future generations. What kind of weak and feeble minded people are we producing where we have to use censorship to protect their fragile little minds? We’re not doing children any favours by ‘protecting’ them from words.

[@pblossom3757]

Absolutely! I recently listened to a discussion on Radio 4 where a young woman in charge of student welfare and curriculum at a University, was stating that it is right that an Archaeology Degree has warnings before lectures that the images and lecture will show bones .. she felt it was highly necessary to protect students from being upset..

[@mssami1664]

What he said about the Quran is completely wrong. What he described is in the Bible but not in the Quran

[@jennyj0007]

​@p blossom the makes no sense. When people eat KFc, there are bones there? So, in her stupid logic there should be a warning before going to KFC 🍗

[@anthonytaylor9232]

@@mssami1664 BS on your part!

[@sammic7492]

I hate to point this out but MEN are also responsible for raising children, the fact you ignore this sends a shiver down my spine.

[@sang3Eta]

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - George Orwell, 1984.

[@mancebo7]

Spot on.

[@fusionfan6883]

Orwell was so prescient on so many issues that are now afflicting our modern society. Sadly, if things continue this way, there will be no more Orwells or other great thinkers, because our children will not understand true history, will not be able to think beyond the present and will not feel free to express any challenging thoughts or ideas. As Starkey says, it is the return of the Puritans, and cancel culture is the modern term for blasphemy. Particularly pernicious is the way this is being disseminated by so many so called academics in Universities and colleges, and whereas this cancer really started there, it is now seeping down to ever younger in the education system, as well as being transported into the wider world as these students going into work and take up management roles. Critical thinking skills should be taught at an early age so that children are not so fragile that they cannot entertain differing thoughts or be challenged to understand the hard realities of life.

[@beckyboo1352]

The parallels between the book 1984 and what society is becoming is truly terrifying.

[@csykes23]

The Twits didnt say if you're ugly you're a bad kid at all. I thought it was a good message, that as an adult I still often think about - that if you try to live a miserable life and be miserable to others, over time your face becomes miserable as well!! It teaches children to try to be as positive as they can be!!

[@vincentdegennaro3375]

When Starkey finally departs, he will never be replaced…

[@JwayT]

He needs to be cloned.

[@weep5426]

@@JwayT who isnt cloned these days.

[@MasalaMan]

Well he's got to be by somebody.

[@brianjones4026]

the same for Britain and its values ! These social marxists just want to burn everything down so that they can replace it with their insane unlivable Dogma and Total control of Everything and Everyone !

[@robot336]

V FOR VENDETTA COMMING TO LIFE UNTIL THE LEFT CENSOR'S IT AS WELL 👿👿

[@JB-vr1vz]

I read Enid Blyton as a working class child and it opened up a world that was totally alien to me. I loved them because of that. God this women is bats!

[@overcomerbtbojesus]

“bats” 😂🤣😂🤣

[@keith6400]

As I recall any violence in Enid Blyton's books was different animals having a fight. In this way she avoided people fighting.

[@philipchurchill6508]

Are you aware that Bliyton has been messed with ? , must be 20 years ago now, ironically I think pictures stopped showing noddy and big ears sleeping in the same bed ,also something about a policeman no longer dishing out spankings in toy town , Iam just going by memory JB but my memory is quite good , I think it was on kaliedascope on radio 4 , what a silly cow that woman is , good what Starkey said though I dont like his politics

[@keith6400]

@@philipchurchill6508 I think we need to keep old books as written. It is then possible to determine what was acceptable at that time. In this way you can look back and see how people thought back then.

[@ebnanaann5644]

Yes I was brought up on Enid Blyton it gave me the inspiration I needed.

[@KatieShep1722]

Well done David for not getting up and walking out as I would have done... utter rubbish this woman is preaching.

[@Danny-hp9fx]

A man of intellect…….and a woman of none

[@rah1721]

Dr Starkey is ABSOLUTELY right. This new pathetic generation is catastrophising absolutely everything. It is going to end up in a REVOLT from the children who've had enough of all this dumbing down.

[@hittitecharioteer]

'Pathetic' is the word alright.

[@youtubefans510]

that's how the political left can control the story line , and feed the children with their ideas

[@randomonlineuser6401]

I agree, i have a feeling that their's going to be a huge pushback, in which we will see a huge cultural shift from the new gen. Against this Extreme wokeism and I'm moderately liberal myself.

[@josephsalmonte4995]

The kids won't revolt lol. Lack of intelligence breeds apathetic attitudes. They don't care about history. They care about the Kardashians, fame & getting rich from streaming

[@lozzy2587]

Everybody gets offended. That’s just part of life. David is spot on.

[@michaelcoward1902]

Yeah...for example look at all these Gbeebies viewers who are in the absolute pit of outrage because a new version of a book came out...Ooh it doesn't fit their politics and now they're all throwing their teddies out the pram and bursting into tears...even though you can still buy the original version literally anywhere. Sad thing is, you Gbeebies viewers don't even realise that you are the worst offenders of outrage culture...Literally every single day you're red faced and ranting about something new...

[@alphabet2238]

@@michaelcoward1902 The issue though is that the books were politicised in the first place, sure there were messages in Dahls books, as well as almost every book in existence, but millions of children over the years have read them and almost all of them have turned into decent adults. Now, some people think that they need to shelter children as they are afraid these works might offend somebody. If people don't take a stand at this point then these kinds of people will only continue and will become bolder and bolder in what they do. And that is a fact of human nature. If there wasn't such backlash then there would only just be the one new version.

[@johnatkinson7126]

​@@michaelcoward1902 a new version of the book not written by the author perhaps the person rewriting it should try writing something original of their own

[@chrissedaka8141]

@@michaelcoward1902 Your surname is very fitting. Imagine thinking that people objecting to cultural revisionism are in the wrong. You're also being rather disingenuous when you say one can buy the original edition any time. If true, then children will have access to it, thereby rendering the revisionist version ineffectual in its stated purpose. Accordingly, you and I both know that the purpose of this new edition is to supplant prior versions in the cultural canon, in which case those earlier versions will be increasingly hard to come by, per the *actual* intent of the changes being made. The only red face here is yours, courtesy of your communist apologia.

[@lancervi1762]

Silly women; ever learning but unable to come to the knowledge of the truth. Truly.....they should be ashamed.

[@opinionday0079]

The thoughts of shallow women like this making the rules on what we and our children should read is very depressing Mary Whitehouse comes to mind

[@Mark-rd1it]

Kids are looking at graphic porn and nobody is saying anything. It’s gross

[@emmyjo720]

Tik Toc is more dangerous than Roald Dahl.

[@kevincasson9848]

Wow!! David Starkey is an intellectually gifted Gem! We need more like him!

[@abdullahmohammady7568]

Rebecca is the perfect example of woke madness.

[@bornrich9589]

The man impressed me massively. His argumentation is really great, respect.

[@PaquetasCar2147]

She's repulsive in many ways,......and then she opens her mouth.

[@gobblelevclass3nuclearsubm393]

no feminist hate and trying to erase anything that is not flattering to the female gender

[@raz6630]

The modern-day witch burners the modern-day zealots are the woke mob, they have the Iq of rocks and a desire to feel self-righteous. They are pulling apart society.

[@duncanmills391]

If she is who I think she is, then I saw Milo Yionnapolis dismantle her once and it was beautiful!

[@davidmorrison2739]

Enid Blyton has language that would be illegal now?! What ever happened to me when I read them 75 years ago?

[@chriscorker5634]

So it's up to Rebecca on what we can read.......Really?

[@Cardifftoyboy1]

Dear Rebecca....Write your own woke books by all means and see if you can sell them. Do not have the audacity to interfere with the books written by our loved successful and talented writers. You have no right! Dahl would be rotating in his grave and do everything in his power to stop you and you know it well enough....Books which have been interfered with in this way should have a warning printed in bold letters on the front cover: "THIS WORK WRITTEN BY A SOMEBODY HAS BEEN ALTERED BY A NOBODY".

[@rubytuesday5815]

Well said 👏👏👏

[@laurameszaros9547]

Oh wow, what a brilliant and truthful warning that would be!!

[@rayleekain3921]

Love it. So true.

[@helenhughes9420]

Think we can all agree reading these books in 60s/70s/ 80s as kids didn't turn US into the weirdo generation that exists today.

[@webbo9798]

Meanwhile kids now are potentially exposed to absolutely "everything" imaginable on social media........but thats ...OK.

[@melb5996]

@@webbo9798 no it isn’t “OK” but I really hope that you understand the difference between social media and books?

[@webbo9798]

@@melb5996 I'm simply making the comparisons in terms of whats being exposed to kids on social media as opposed to a few innocent books - yes I do know the difference

[@oldshiny3012]

No the internet fame game turn ppl into wet attention seeking lettuces

[@keithg1xfl]

Well Said !

[@lexglossa5932]

She believes that some one else should contextualise reading of a fictitious novel, not the reader ..... wow!

[@richardbehan8118]

Wasn't the spell that was put on Snow White that she didn't wake unless kissed? This is madness!

[@MultiDavid182]

I’d loved reading Dahl books as I was a kid and I’m 40 now, I can remember listening to George’s marvellous medicine read by the late great Rick Male over and over again in my parents car going on holidays in France. So I think it’s crazy to censor these stories and many stories from my childhood by the wacky clown world 🤡🤬🤬🤬

[@foreverhungry7777]

Do you mean Rick Mayall from the Young Ones? Man, that would have been brilliant to hear.

[@Enl1thened1]

I'm a book dealer, none of mine will ever be censored, I have just cancelled cancelled culture, their sorted!!

[@kimmac231]

Well done

[@pblossom3757]

I work for a charity popping books online to sell.. its sad how many beautiful books are deemed non sellable due to the odd word or phrase..

[@SNUSNU-lz7dh]

Well done 👏 Keep our literature safe and intact

[@Enl1thened1]

@@pblossom3757 to me, that's their problem, and, there's always people out there who appreciate our true history, and the thing is with history, it always always repeats itself, don't give up

[@pblossom3757]

@@Enl1thened1 🙌🌟🙌

[@adrianrouse5148]

If they censor Roald Dahl where do you stop. This world is going crazy.

[@roslewis9923]

Exactly, next step adult works

[@majorlaff8682]

Dr Seuss will be next. Veganidiots will declare war on 'Green eggs and ham'.

[@tagus100]

"Read them in a safe way" - who gets to define what the "safe way" is. Answer me that Rebecca. She's advocating for something she definitely doesn't want to fall afoul of, but wants everybody else to play along instead.

[@rubynutman]

I read Roald Dahl books as a kid and I adored those stories growing up. This hit's close to home & I'm deeply saddened by this, cos they're essentally dampening childish imagination, curiosity & love of reading which was something my parent's instilled in my sister & I. If you hate Roald Dahl books than don't read it, but Leave Children's stories alone.

[@normanmacfarlane6724]

I cannot believe we are having this conversation

[@Baglady111]

Yeah, sad isn’t it that we’ve come to this.

[@ninianmacmillan-keith7435]

Starkey is BRILLIANT

[@patriciacopley8284]

Brilliant, brilliant ,brilliant 👏👏

[@mssami1664]

I mainly agree with him, but What he said about the Quran is completely wrong. What he described is in the Bible but not in the Quran

[@justme.9711]

If you change the shapes and colours of a painting or the shape of a sculpture it is not longer what it was. It should be re-named.

[@thomaskarlsson6631]

The way her eyes moved at the end, looking for an exit - classic! She get cornered pretty good. Rhetorically well put together by the gentleman...

[@middleman9183]

I find the woman's opinion insulting. Even as a child I understood the historical context with which books were written. Children aren't stupid unlike these sensitivity grifters.

[@gloriahooper5023]

This woman can ban books for the children in HER home, but she should butt out of interfering with other people's choice of reading material for THEIR children. My children were raised with all the Classic stories as well as more modern ones. They knew they were STORIES and not real! They always recognized who the good people were and who the baddies were. LEAVE OUR KIDS ALONE!! 📖📚

[@justme.9711]

If you put in different words, it is a different book. Re-writre Green Eggs and Ham and it is no longer that book.

[@hobbitronicfunk]

Did she honestly compare Roald Dahl to Pulp Fiction??

[@watfordtripod]

David Starkey the voice of common sense as always

[@BRADDERS_YT67]

I read all the Roald Dahl books as a kid and thought they were just fun stories. That’s it. Kids don’t need babying.

[@taffysaur]

“Most Enid Blyton books have language in them that would basically be illegal these days…” She says this as though being arrested for making the wrong sounds with your face hole is a normal and acceptable state of affairs. There really is a deeper divide here than I think can be reasonably explored in this sort of a context.

[@jamesg6319]

Old school history teacher telling the truth ! Now what's wrong with that !!!

[@panenka7656]

I knew she was going to bottle the Koran question as soon as Starkey mentioned it.

[@greyvoice7949]

There are a lot of questions they would never answer... Book burning or book censorship for instance... Both have the same desired effect.

[@sheep83]

Did you notice her eyes darting frantically around the room as the hamster wheel in her head went into overdrive? Glorious.

[@mssami1664]

What he said about the Quran is completely wrong. What he described is in the Bible but not in the Quran

[@Alex1234496]

She looked like someone who was told their plane is about to crash.

[@rclrd1]

@@mssami1664 Why single out the Quran? Has he never read the Old Testament?

[@beecat9951]

Actually, what the author says in the Twits is that you have supposedly ugly facial features but that beauty can still shine through if you are a beautiful character, and vice versa, because it's what's on the inside that counts. It is really shameful that Rebecca can't even understand a children's book.

[@biscuitheque79]

👏

[@thejunglekitchen]

You are 100% right. I also found it quite ironic that she mentioned fairy tales such as Cinderella. In Revolting Rhymes, Roald Dahl opens his version of Cinderella with the lines "I guess you think you know this story. You don’t. The real one’s much more gory. The phoney one, the one you know, Was cooked up years and years ago, And made to sound all soft and sappy"

[@SuSang666]

That would be too deep for these snowflakes - read the whole thing and think about the real meaning of the text.

[@paulmorris9605]

she probably hasnt even read any dahl

[@SuSang666]

@Wasssup Dawwwg Well said. She's a hypocrite.

[@Godwinsson77]

Pudgy the Puritan was sweating bullets at the thought of having to answer that last question with the same logic as she did the other questions.

[@Dazgul]

How did we manage to read non sensitivity censored books and not be harmed by it. Why do kids now need to be 'protected' from them.

[@thomaspaine5601]

"She's being kissed without her consent" these people are INSANE. If they themselves do not want to read it, fine. Other than that they can take a running jump. They're driving me to despair.

[@johnflavin1602]

Precisely. They can take a long walk on a short pier.

[@atmywitsend1984]

She even suggested that kissing the frog was wrong. Its a make believe story for heavens sake. These people have lost their senses.

[@stellamcniell7928]

Exactly, how many princesses do you find asleep 😆

[@Alices.last.warning]

@@stellamcniell7928 lol. Brilliant 👏🏼

[@sa9861]

Obviously not understanding the symbolism of rebirth in the kiss.

[@user-xc7gb8gj6r]

Rebecca Reid telling people what they'll be offended by 🤷🤦 Bloody hell !! I think myself and my children can think for ourselves what we'll be offended by or not, thank you. What's the world come too

[@melb5996]

My eyes are offended every time she is dragged out by GB News.

[@El.Cid17]

Shouldn't GB news issue a Rebecca warning, before she's on 🤔🤣🤣

[@user-xc7gb8gj6r]

@@melb5996 attention seeking at its highest

[@Scripture-Man]

She has to tell you what you'll find offensive about Roald Dahl's books, because if you ACTUALLY READ THEM you won't find the things she says. She's actually lied about it. Like when she said "The Twits" says that ugly people are all evil. Actually, it says the opposite - Roald said that it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, if you have a good heart that will shine through and make you look lovely. But Ms Reid is a liar.

[@alyb731]

I’ve never heard of this woman but she sounds like a complete nit wit. It should be up to the parents what books their kids read, I grew up with Enid Blyton and it didn’t do me any harm.

[@Ura_Jack_Off]

Don’t give them an inch!

[@8o.dakota.o8]

I really fear for the future 😒

[@boroughgal4146]

Absolutely NO book should be censored or re-written.

[@raz6630]

The modern-day witch burners the modern-day zealots are the woke mob, they have the Iq of rocks and a desire to feel self-righteous. They are pulling apart society.

[@willatkinson9729]

Here here!

[@87stevan]

Your opinion doesn't matter "Borough Gal".. do you not realise this yet??

[@SirtsRohutirts]

We had Balzac's "Father Goriot" as one of the Literature class reading and most of us had to read it from book series printed (1961) during USSR reign. Balzac was considered not appropriate for communist readers, so the only way for it to get printed was to have lengthy pro-communist foreword. That was a way to bypass restrictions on content. It worked only 'cause everyone involved in translating and printing wanted uncensored books. There were plenty of books catering the worker/communistic political ideology and didn't need forewords to pass inspection. I was born after the USSR and frankly don't want to give up freedom of speech or expression. The art created during that time period is a painful lesson on the oppression of art and the clever way artists learned to defy that (or got erased sometimes with their families, if discovered). I'm not sad that the art from USSR period was created, but sad due to so much being left unread/unseen cause one representative painting/book sums up that period and to experience the rest is waste of time..

[@boroughgal4146]

@@87stevan and your opinion of my opinion doesn’t matter either….or haven’t you realised that, so bore off!

[@hollywolly2612]

I was an incredibly sensitive child and I grew up reading Dahl books and I loved them. My son, who struggles with reading, loves them. David is 100% correct. There is nothing in a Dahl book that requires such dramatic sensorship. This woman needs to calm down!!

[@dragonfly6955]

This woman needs to solve her own, personal issues instead of having classic books cancelled because she can't handle certain things (which aren't that "traumatizing" really). Oh god, the insanity.

[@douglasfreeman3229]

Same here. I loved Dahl's books. I love my Tales of the Unexpected d.v.d. set and I am just embarking on his books for adults. These "sensitivity readers" (or censors as they were once known) are patronizing self-righteous puritans.

[@mfbias4048]

Maybe it was her that took such offence to the word ‘fat’ being used

[@hollywolly2612]

It's great to see so many people who don't buy into the nonsense. It's very telling how she completely misunderstood the passage in the twits about pretty Vs ugly people. It means her whole argument is moot. If she can't understand children's books she's not capable of criticising them.

[@Madonnalitta1]

It seems obvious to me that the lady, like everyone else who has a problem with the books, has never read a Roald Dahl book in her life. I wonder if she knows of Roald Dahl's adult books? (That's rhetorical!).

[@davidfogarty2220]

Rebecca Reid speaking at her usual fast rate, so no one will actually pick up on the utter nonsense she is spouting. I don't think I'd want to pick up any of her novels. May I direct her to the Saki short story Toys of Peace.

[@paulday6236]

This woman is what's wrong with our country I read them books when I was a kid it didn't worp my mind also get her starky

[@janepreston1876]

Sick of people taking offence at anything and wanting to force their feeble offence on others through censorship!

[@lucia201189]

Yep they cant live and left live , question is who is funding these loonies who have got nothing better to do with their time

[@sirbarnabyst.johntoffingto9017]

Precisely! The censorship of the past are acts taken by c_(comment censored by KZbin)_ts!!

[@bennyhillschineseblokechar3689]

Ironically, many comments will be censored by some soppy dingbat numpty from KZbin!!