Reaction & Commentary
Kipling Edmund Burke this is being called far right extremism this is this is the new definition of it and I look and I know people I’ll I’ll explain this I know people see this and they’re like geez well this is what the the West has lost its mind to this
Extent maybe Russia is a better option and I I get there are people who see it like that right I I would argue there can be more than one thing wrong with the world at the same time um I’m I’m not an I’m not like uh an
Absolutist that the enemy of my enemy is my friend so to speak you know I I think that frankly you can just agree that there’s corruption in many countries simultaneously and sometimes sometimes corrupt Powers fight against each other there’s not necessarily A Goodbye a good
Guy and a bad guy sometimes there can be a bad guy and a bad guy you know what I mean um I would say this this is a symbol of deep corruption uh luckily I’d say there are good there are good forces in the UK pushing back against us and calling out
How ridiculous it is but let me show you what this says folks this is the daily mail and they’re laughing about it they said you must you must be having a laugh Yes Minister and the thick of it were among others the satire programmers flagged by beleaguering counter-terror prevent scheme for encouraging far-right
Sympathies it’s this group called prevent because they want to prevent extremism and they’re saying that all these books are now encouraging far-right sympathies how dare you oppose uh the idea that George Orwell’s you know future is a bad future right it says some of Britain’s most popular sitcoms and the greatest works of
Literature were flagged as potential signs of far-right extremism by a counter-terrorism program it says further in the taxpayer-funded document included references to the Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien all this hugsley’s Brave New World Joseph Conrad’s the secret agent 1984 by George Orwell and the poems of G.K Chesterton
It also referenced films including the Bridge on the River Kauai The Great Escape and Zulu works by some of the world’s greatest Riders were included as examples of warning signs of potential extremism including Shakespeare Chaucer Milton Tennyson Kipling and Edmund Burke the report even highlighted the BBC’s 1990s
Political thriller House of Cards John L alcar’s seminal spy Trilogy Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy and sharp the ITV drama set in the Napoleonic Wars and explicitly it also said the sorry it said the BBC’s Great British Railway Journeys presented by former conservative Minister Michael Portillo was of interest to the far right
It says historian and broadcaster Andrew Roberts said quote this is truly extraordinary this is the reading list of anyone who wants to be a once a civilized liberal cultured education it includes some of the greatest works in the western Canon and in some cases such as Joseph Conrad’s a secret agent
Powerful critiques of terrorism Burke hugsley Orwell and token were all totalitarian and sorry anti-totalitarian writers a concerning development because if you if you’re concerned about totalitarianism apparently that’s a gateway to extremism now it says this Mr Murray wrote In The Spectator magazine a number of books are singled out the possession The
Possession or reading of which could point to severe wrong think using an Orwell term and therefore potential radicalization it seems that ricu is so far off track that it believes that books identifying the problem that it was itself set up to tackle are in fact part of the problem in other words
George Orwell’s 1984 was a warning of what not to do of what could happen if you allow a surveillance state to take hold if the government can rewrite history and they’re saying instead how dare you criticize our surveillance State how dare you criticize our rewriting of
History and you must be an extremist for reading this book that would warn you against the the righteous things we plan to do to you that’s the way they’re framing it says he concluded that riku’s work ricus was pathetic and called for accountability for its errors in sacking
By the score the list has emerged following a major review of the prevent scheme by William shawcross his report published earlier this month exposed serious failings in prevent that’s the organization pushing this warning taxpayer funded in the UK warning that it applies to a sorry a double standard
To islamist and far-right threats the 49 million pound per year scheme had prioritized countering far-ride activity above tackling the prime islamist threat it added added the report said prevent had scrutinized right-wing materials which fell would fell well short of the extremist threshold altogether Home Secretary Brave Braverman told the MPS prevent
Had defined the extreme right wing too broadly encompassing the respectable right and the center right and a home office spokesperson said the Home Secretary made clear that prevent will now ensure it focuses on the key threat of islamist terrorism as well as remaining Vigilant of emerging threats
And it says we’ve accepted all 34 recommendations and are committed to protecting our country from the threat posed by terrorism do you get what happened in my opinion this is like trying to dig let using legislation to try to dig yourself out of bad legislation is like
Digging a hole to try to dig yourself out of a hole rather than rather than fix the very problem that was created they’re expanding the problem in order to broaden it and normalize it they’re not talking about the idea that they’ve listed you know all these famous Western authors as being gateways to
Extremism they’re saying why did you only include them but you’re not going after the islamist extremists you’re not going after the you know islamist terrorism what you’re going to get is not the pulling back on this in other words you’re not going to get them rolling
This back you’re not going to get them saying okay George Orwell was not an extremist writer Jr Tolkien was not an extremist writer what you’re going to get instead is that George Orwell was an extremist writer but you know we should also go against terrorism on all sides
They’re not they’re not fixing the problem in other words they’re expanding it they’re expanding it so the encompassing of things that shouldn’t even be there in the first place are normalized within the broad spectrum of including legitimate terrorism that’s all they’re doing the rewriting of Roald Dahl if you’ve watched Charlie
And the Chocolate Factory or Matilda that’s Roald Dahl and it says across his beloved children’s books hundreds of authors words have been changed or entirely removed in bid for relevancy this is private business doing it by the way now if you read George Orwell and you write about how they’re rewriting
History and removing words and they have new speak this is what Orwell warned about this is this is exactly what George L Orwell warned about but let me show you what this article says it says words matter begins a discrete notice which sits at the bottom of the copyright page of puffin’s latest
Editions of Roald Dahl’s books the wonderful world the words of Roald Dahl can transport you to different worlds and introduce you to the most marvelous characters this book was written many years ago and so we regularly review the language to ensure that it can continue to be enjoyed by all today put simply
These words may not be the worlds that doll wrote the Publishers have given themselves license to edit the writers they see fit chopping altering and adding where necessary to bring his books in line with contemporary sensibilities this is an article that’s positive towards us by the way by comparing these latest editions with
Earlier versions of the text the telegraph is found hundreds of changes to doll’s stories language related to weight mental health violence gender and race has been cut and Rewritten remember the cloud men and James and the Giant Peach they are now the cloud people it’s the small fox in Fantastic Mr Fox
Are now female in Matilda a mentioned in Rudyard Kipling has been cut in Jane Austen added enrolled Dahl but different right so it’s a roll it’s rolled dull but different and they say this is not the first time his work’s been controversial the Oompa Loompas those little orange men
The diminutive employees of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory have been extensively reimagined over the years in recent years doll has been criticized he’s dead but it says in recent years Roald Dahl has been criticized for anti-Semitism misogyny and racism and it says the modern editor faces a dilemma how to retain doll’s compelling
Spikiness which is enthralled generations of readers while bringing it in line with the hair trigger sensibilities of children’s publishing and it goes on and on and on over all the language they’ve altered in these books
