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Roald Dahl
They’re a kind of last line of defense against the intolerant left
There’s no doubt Dahl had many different sides to him — and not all of them were positive
Ian Fleming’s estate, though ultimately wrong, has tackled the issue with circumspection
Almost every kids’ classic more than thirty years old would be a candidate for the blue pencil
His works are being censored decades after he might have disapproved
Rewriting past literature to make it conform to modern-day sensibilities is a species of tyranny
There’s money to be made in spite of his anti-Semitism and contempt for big business
Even in otherwise polite or intellectual social milieu, views like Dahl’s resurface again and again
