I posted on Instagram an image of Roald Dahl’s quote about “Magic” and paying attention to the small details because that’s where the whimsy lives with a description evoking the importance of the written word. Life can be hard and so I posted a quote without any additional Instagram #’s to engage with additional communities because of the recent debate between Roald Dahl’s publishing house making changes to his various novels and critics who assert that such changes in language are akin to censorship. Some critics are speaking on behalf of deceased Roald Dahl and I think that’s dangerous. The traditional news publications have either supported the pro-censorship assertion or decried it as the rights of the publishing house that ultimately decide how the author’s work is presented to the public. I think, partially that’s why I didn’t include any #’s to this post because I haven’t decided my opinion on this topic. Ultimately, I think my post will be taken as Pro-Dahl’s publishing house because that’s the majority of my Instragram followers, individuals who would agree with changes for inclusive language but I think it’s such a small addition or subtraction of words/phrases that this non-issue will be out of the news just like the Dr. Seuss “controversy” when Seuss’s publishing house decided to stop publishing a few books that the Seuss Foundation asserted contained “racist and insensitive imagery”
