Tom Hanks is coming out with a new book about his Hollywood experience.
So the BBC asked him about the censorship his publisher, Puffin Books, is doing over the classic children’s books they own.
This represents a new wing in the censorship battle.
First, Richard Dreyfuss spoke out against the Academy Awards new quota rules. For a film to be considered, it must revolve around an actor of color, or have its cast be almost a third non-white, or the lead actor has to be from an under represented group. Two of the three criteria must be fulfilled.
Dreyfuss isn’t conservative at all. In fact, he’s a self described progressive.
Considering Hanks also leans left, it’s clear that the battle against censorship from the hard left is becoming an increasingly nonpartisan issue.
“I’m of the opinion that we’re all grown-ups here. Let’s have faith in our own sensibilities as opposed to having somebody decide what we may or may not be offended by,” insists Hanks. “Let me decide what I am offended by and what I’m not offended by. I would be against reading any book from any era that says ‘abridged due to modern sensitivities.”
The details of why these books were censored may surprise you. The line “enormously fat” in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory got changed to just “enormous.” Fat is now a non starter for liberals.
In the “Fabulous Mr. Fox,” a tractor, seen as something threatening for the animal hero, had its color described as “black.” Apparently even when describing the color black, committing the sin of saying “black” is still racist. So the tractor description got changed to “murderous, brutal looking monsters.”
Expect more and more actors, typically thought to be Democrats, to speak out against an increasingly overly sensitive corporate culture. They just might end up cancelling themselves.
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