Not only is Agatha Christie a woman, she is the second best-selling fiction author in history (after Shakespeare); even that isn’t enough to insulate her from this crap.
Best-selling author Agatha Christie’s books have reportedly become the latest target of sensitivity readers reworking or removing original passages in new editions of Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries published by HarperCollins.
These novels were written between 1920 and 1976, and now, it is reported that the revised editions are being stripped of certain language and descriptions that are deemed offensive.
Some examples of the reported revisions include erasing references to people smiling and descriptions of their teeth and physiques and insults or references to ethnicity, such as “Oriental,” per the Telegraph.
HarperCollins did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for confirmation and comment.
Dialogue by “unsympathetic characters” has also reportedly been cut out.
The sensitivity readers are said to have edited down dialogue from Christie’s character Mrs. Allerton from the 1937 Poirot novel Death on the Nile. In the text, she criticized a group of annoying children, saying, “their eyes are simply disgusting, and so are their noses.” The new version reportedly removes this description.
“The Nubian boatman” is now just “the boatman” in the same novel.
The 1964 Miss Marple novel A Caribbean Mystery had a few revisions as well, with the new edition missing the description of a West Indian hotel worker as having “such lovely white teeth.” A reference to a female character having “a torso of black marble such as a sculptor would have enjoyed” was also done away with. A racial slur used against individuals with black or brown skin was further removed from the book.
In her 1920 debut novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles, the Poirot’s comment about another character being “a Jew, of course” has additionally been cut. In the same book, all references to gypsies have been deleted.
As for her book Miss Marple’s Final Cases and Two Other Stories, the new edition changes the description of an angry character from “his Indian temper” to just “his temper.”
“Natives” has also reportedly been replaced with the word “local.”
Here’s a boomer take: this is an easy problem to solve, because anyone who is getting triggered like this is too stupid to read books in the first place, so just stop telling them books contain things that might hurt their feelings.
But of course, boomers don’t understand how any of this works. They’re much too stupid, and will simply take “we have to protect people’s feelings” at face value.
The reality is that no one’s feelings are actually hurt and no one cares about that anyway. This is about hurting people and destroying things. It’s about a revolution to erase the past. They are normalizing the mass transformation of historic records by first targeting novels. Eventually, they will erase all of history, and replace it with a new history, where whites are always evil and Jews are always victims.
We saw this with censorship: initially, they claimed that they were censoring Andrew Anglin and others because they hurt people’s feelings. Eventually, they admitted that it was never about people’s feelings and it was always about shaping a narrative (they moved from “hate speech” to “disinformation”). The people who bought this “we just want to protect feelings” argument are beyond moronic. This is what they always do: they throw out some bullshit explanation for what they’re doing, then proceed to send people out to argue both sides of the fake explanation.
“And now, Ben Shapiro explains why snowflakes are triggered by facts and logic.”
You never oppose the actual thing because you never even know what the thing is. You’re stuck in some goofy mind-trap.
They’re going to erase all of human history by recycling this gibberish about protecting people’s feelings.
These are the people censoring your books. In a normal situation, no one on earth would take this seriously. They are simply golems of the Jews.