The children’s classics by Roald Dahl, are being altered to remove anything which in any way may offend the woke, such as references to “fat” people. And, this is setting a precedence, as all of culture could also be reworked. Realising that this deconstruction and revision is a major threat to past genius and culture, Salman Rushdie, as deep a part of the establishment as there could be, has taken a stand, just like J. K. Rowling did on the trans issue. But Rushdie has given a more comprehensive critique, seeing this a woke censorship, and a distortion of history: "I really do believe [these books are] of their time and they should be left alone," he told the Times of London. "Roald Dahl was a great satirist, apart from anything else. It's disgraceful."
"It's this kind of form of McCarthyism, this woke culture, which is absolutely wanting to reinterpret everything and redesign and say, 'Oh, that didn't exist.'" he continued. "Well. it did exist. We have to acknowledge our history."