We live in a world where it’s inappropriate to show kids Dahl books but it’s ok to allow them to transition into another sex. Madness

@mrsfoss3368

Жыл бұрын

And be read soft and fluffy books by transvestites whilst learning it's ok to be a THEM.... what a mess!

@lolalola-rg7hk

Жыл бұрын

madnesss

@timeweston

Жыл бұрын

Ms Reid's arguments are the perfect example of what that madness has become. The talking points are all there...pathological empathy to point of self deletion

@juntus89

Жыл бұрын

Gender isn't biological sex. It's "madness" that you Lee still don't understand the difference. Get an education son.

@stevenclark1973

Жыл бұрын

"Don't read Dahl books but here's a phone with an internet connection.. ...go and play"

When you don't challenge children, you get adults like Rebecca Reid

@julienewman1761

Жыл бұрын

So true. Obviously "karen" wasn't told no by her useless parents and now we ha0pve overgrown spoilt kids.

@lindapullan6937

Жыл бұрын

That's a frightening thought

@robbothegreat1368

Жыл бұрын

Spot on

@bellesblues

Жыл бұрын

Indeed. Soft, indulgent and weak adults.

@Scripture-Man

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I bet her parents never smacked her. That kind of neglect leads to this level of foolishness.

I read Roald Dahl when I was a kid. Devoured it,every book over and over again. I'm not a racist,I'm not nasty,I'm not a phobe of any sort. I just thank god I grew up then and not now.

@sadhappy8860

Жыл бұрын

Even If you were a racist, nasty, phobe, or whatever we are called, etc... I doubt it'd be Dahl's influence.

@pocalypsetours

Жыл бұрын

I said the same as this. This utter madness has made me produce videos looking at how we solve this problems. Kindle will AUTOMATICALY edit the works of Roald Dalh. This is first. Today I read the UK Government want to ban Orwell 1984 and other works as they "promote" extremism This madness must stop as what comes next is literally everything 1984 warns us about.

@sadhappy8860

Жыл бұрын

@@pocalypsetours How does anyone think "Shall we ban 1984" without thinking "hang on a second"? World is nuts.

@njerzynek

Жыл бұрын

why thank a fictional person some believe live in the sky but I'm glad I grew up in the 80'3/90's!

@paulinegallagher7821

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. I read the Witches, it scared the shit out of me, and i moved on with my life

That Rebecca woman is infuriating on a level seldom seen. What a genuinely disturbing mindset.

@richatlarge462

Жыл бұрын

To use one of their replacement words, she is "enormously" fervent. 😂

@matthwe3468

5 ай бұрын

She should just lock herself in a room with Postman Pat books which the only "safe" books I can think of off the top of my head.

If Dahl's books are so 'bad' how did those of us that read, unsupervised ever survive !?! This woke nonsense has to stop.

@jennyj0007

Жыл бұрын

Her agreement has no logic.

@michaelcoward1902

Жыл бұрын

You know you can still freely buy the original right? It's not been taken off the shelves, they've just made a new edition...it really is nothing to get worked up into hysterics about...

@LiveFromLondon2

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelcoward1902 thin end of a wedge.

@Whiskey0880

Жыл бұрын

Coward by name, coward by nature.

@beecat9951

Жыл бұрын

​@@michaelcoward1902we can be worked up by the intention behind censoring children's books, with or without your permission thanks!

I love that "You adjust to the classic, the classic should not adjust to you". Thank you Dr Starkey.

@mreale2811

Жыл бұрын

I’m a granny & Totally 100% agree with Mr Starkey , I’m quite a bit older than him....He may not have children but he knows what he’s talking about....As for the young woman in the blue dress, all I can say is “What nonsense!” If she has kids, she’s teaching them to grow up to be ‘spineless’ by wrapping them up in tissue paper & cotton wool. .... So instead of ERASING THE PAST TO FIT THE PRESENT, how about monitoring all of the crap that young kids are allowed by their CONCERNED parents to watch on the internet...Maybe read out loud the classics to their children while stopping to explain the BAD words.... If a parentless child takes a classic book out of the library & doesn’t understand a particular word ....do what millions have done before...Ask the librarian or a teacher to explain ...or look it up in a dictionary. Maybe this ignorant woman is unaware that going back to the 1940s in U.K. after World War 2 ,( if there was a library still standing) this is what children did after being deprived of one parent or another, either from bombings or being killed in action....this obviously is still going on all over the world today....IMO 🇨🇦🇬🇧

@hittitecharioteer

Жыл бұрын

🎯👏🏻

She outed herself talking about "The Twitts" “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” The opposite of how she was trying to characterize it. Absolutely vile person.

@The_Mighty_Fiction

Жыл бұрын

Also Snow White. The grief-stricken prince believed she was dead. He was kissing her goodbye, not forcing sexual advances on her. How is this halfwit unable to understand stories for barely literate children?

@dantewilliams2757

Жыл бұрын

I was about to say

@johnwoods7650

Жыл бұрын

You are right. It is figurative. People such has her can't tell the difference between what is real and what is figurative, nor can they tell the difference between make believe and reality. They should not be allowed within a million miles of an imaginative child.

@vin8754

Жыл бұрын

Its such a shame to see such a fun idea/concept get absolutely defiled.

@brahmbandyopadhyay

5 ай бұрын

_Exactly_ , right?

I love how David trapped her at the end asking her if she wanted the Koran censored - she was too shook to answer because she knows what would happen next haha well done Starkey!

@foreverhungry7777

Жыл бұрын

Really? I thought it under-handed and nefarious, just like how editing Roald Dahl's stories is nefarious. Just goes to show each extreme side hates the other because they are more alike than not.

@jamiesimms7084

Жыл бұрын

@@foreverhungry7777 The part where you said "each extreme side hates the other because they are more alike than not" is the a true statement and can be applied to many things, especially in today's world, but sadly not for what you wrote it for. Weeping Angel 2 is right, the question and and comparison was good because it exposes her fallacy and is not even remotely under hand or nefarious. Maybe you were confused.

@franceskronenwett3539

Жыл бұрын

She was too scared to answer that question as she knew she would be the sitting target for radical Muslims.

@The_Mighty_Fiction

Жыл бұрын

@@foreverhungry7777 I thought it was revealing of a double standard. She's very secure in her convictions until she's called to risk her fat neck for them.

@gwangi64

Жыл бұрын

@@foreverhungry7777 Utter BS. When has Starkey ever suggested censoring anyone's books?

The only person who has any right to change these books is the Author.

@greyvoice7949

Жыл бұрын

Surely if the author changed the book it would need a new title as it would no longer be the same as the original and thus break some kind of law to market it as the same? James and the giant peach. Woke edition...

@johnwade1095

Жыл бұрын

​@Grey Voice I don't thing so, but they might want to label it as amended for clarity.

@witchygal2703

Жыл бұрын

This. 100%.

@greyvoice7949

Жыл бұрын

@Iflyfree always I was wondering if that was possible if the people doing it owned the rights?

David is 100% correct..authenticity is being banned by the look of things

@stuartmenziesfarrant

Жыл бұрын

Not on my watch!

@tomwright9904

Жыл бұрын

I think she's 100% wrong instead. The concept that a publisher should take on the role of a parent and rewrite fiction is disturbing. My point of agreement is that perhaps the content of a book should be made clear to the parent.

@oldshiny3012

Жыл бұрын

he def out foxed her at the end lmao

@romulus3345

Жыл бұрын

It's called Cultural Marxism.

@eawe

Жыл бұрын

Leave our classics alone.

Why the hell is she so triggered by children's books?? 😂

@paulelroy6650

Жыл бұрын

She has nothing else going on in her life

@chrispywilliams1992

Жыл бұрын

Look at her…..

@garyconyers-davies5781

Жыл бұрын

She's a children's author. She cares. She's right - the world changes. Do you really think the original sleeping beauty story is okay for children?

@chrispywilliams1992

Жыл бұрын

@@garyconyers-davies5781 yea it’s ok. Get over it.

@garyconyers-davies5781

Жыл бұрын

@@chrispywilliams1992 The original story is of a king who falls for a young girl who he can't wake up. So he rapes her. You think that's okay for children to read? The modern version, where he kisses her to wake her up, no problem.

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.” ― Heinrich Heine

Go David go, a man with common sense.

@joycegibbs5267

Жыл бұрын

fewer and fewer of them terrifyingly !!

@belledecaucase

Жыл бұрын

Yes!!! Long live David!!!

@dovetonsturdee7033

Жыл бұрын

He has both a frighteningly powerful intellect and considerable common sense. Why else would he have been cancelled?

@BeeBee10

Жыл бұрын

Yes and very rare these days!

So kids can't read fat or ugly but can be read to by a giant transvestite in stockings and a basque.

@georgieboy1958

Жыл бұрын

You are absolutely right

@louminarty

Жыл бұрын

Your dad?

@Baglady111

Жыл бұрын

@@louminarty Grow up, you’ve just embarrassed yourself.

@dontlooknow.

Жыл бұрын

@@Baglady111 He embarrasses himself on a pretty regular basis.

@cassandrade-wolfe6926

Жыл бұрын

Exactly Steph. 🤷

The sad thing is that poor Dahl isn't here to defend himself.

@Hascienda27

8 ай бұрын

Least he died being loved than alive to see himself twisted into something we all know he isn’t anyway

I feel sorry for her children 😢

She’s only offended because most of the words apply to her

@jackedwards6401

Жыл бұрын

This comments wins

@latchdoorlatch996

Жыл бұрын

Bravo 👏🏻

@kingloki-yz5yl

Жыл бұрын

i CONCUR, WELL SAID.

@kathryngardiner7695

Жыл бұрын

Truth

@Peter-uy3ti

Жыл бұрын

She'll be the next princess in the new Princess and the frog

We shouldn’t be censoring any books people can make their own minds up

@mrnice7570

Жыл бұрын

👏👏

@Pieguts123

Жыл бұрын

I am an avid reader and have been since I was at primary school. My mother was also very well read and the only time we discussed reading material was to recommend to the other, but even then it was only in my adult years. What I read as a child was whatever friends recommended and I needed no help or influence from a parent. My interpretation of material was, and is, my own; this skill I have is from a lifetime of practise in thinking for myself. This woman is talking out of the place where the sun don't shine.

@webbsfan1

Жыл бұрын

Exactly,she's talking as if children today are incapable of thinking for themselves,which I think is wrong.

@AOK342

Жыл бұрын

I don’t think the average person on the left or right wants this to happen. Someone is stoking this culture war for power.

@roslewis9923

Жыл бұрын

Correct the thin edge of the wedge, big brother comes for children, a short step then to censor adults

This man is a life saver, pure common sense, how can you disagree with him.❤

A millennial here and I take David's side. He was so well spoken and had many great points. The "silly and pathetic line" had me laughing..

@thatbooknerdoverthere7899

Жыл бұрын

A man with great points and he uses words like "silly" and "pathetic"? Sounds like he doesn't have many great points after all.

@jameshogg601

Жыл бұрын

@thatbooknerdoverthere7899 well he says exactly why it's silly and pathetic.

@oliverleahy6348

Жыл бұрын

Gen z (sadly) and same here

Whatever you think of him, Starkey's ability to elucidate a point is impressive. He nails it in the first 30 seconds.

@philg7889

Жыл бұрын

Facts not feelings. So much more efficient.

@oldrope6349

Жыл бұрын

and then slam dunks it with the korans teaching children to hate everybody that disagrees. but it does teach how to divorce little girls 65:4 that havent started their periods

I love how she was terrified to answer the Qur'an question, what a dishonest fool she is.

@MsDidi38

Жыл бұрын

No, it was just a stupid question

@mavericmorph5358

Жыл бұрын

@@MsDidi38 Why?

@pneron2032

Жыл бұрын

Well, who wouldn't be terrified to answer that question. Do you want to be bl*wn up?

@alistairmaclean6548

Жыл бұрын

@@MsDidi38 It wasn't that stupid, it showed her up for the cowardly fool she is

@nowayjose9786

Жыл бұрын

@@MsDidi38 It was a great question, and it uncomfortably exposed her.

The old gentleman is very courageous indeed. He isn't politically correct st all. Very rare in today's generation

Does Rebecca understand these are stories, and are not real life?

@greyvoice7949

Жыл бұрын

Nope she is just one of those people that takes offense for the sake of taking offense...

@user-zm9eb6rg4e

Жыл бұрын

The woke interpret everything as real life

@rickjensen2717

Жыл бұрын

No....next question...

@Kyle-sr6jm

Жыл бұрын

Woke hate everything that counters their ideology.

@paulmcnicholas3846

Жыл бұрын

​@@greyvoice7949 she takes offence because its very lucrative at the minute.

can you imagine walking into an art gallery, look at a painting and think "I don't like that bit of the painting" and get out your own paints and paint over it?!?!? it's madness. utter cultural vandalism

@jannenreuben7398

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely, it's like the guy who buys a historic house and proceeds to rip everything out and turn it into a Barratt shoebox.

@ArntyouAKAValerieNosey

Жыл бұрын

It has been done.

@nightowl7459

Жыл бұрын

@Steve Mceveryman That's a perfect analogy.

@Pollydoidle

Жыл бұрын

Omg don’t give thes3 idiots @ny ideas

A man of intellect…….and a woman of none

Read all the Roald Dahl as a child and never thought that it's ever affected my life . I remember watching the exorcist uncut as a child and instead of the cut version because it was better !! She's a prime example of the mampy pampy frightened generation

She’s the same upper middle class sort, that welcomes in people with attitudes from the stone age

@frdsg8350

Жыл бұрын

Words in Charlie's and the chocolate factory are too much for her, but islamic undocumented men in hotels near school? Everything is fine. Sick of these morons.

As a kid growing up in the 70's I was a member of the Penguin book club and read alot of Dahl's books before I was 11 with no teacher or parent telling me their interpretation. I can't think of anything more disturbing and dull than listening to an adult telling me what the author really meant...Just bloody patronising!

@greyvoice7949

Жыл бұрын

Brainwashing...

@Joyce-Mackey

Жыл бұрын

Agree, my younger daughter born in 1968, once a reader, read any book she could get hold of, whatever she pleased. Why sensor books? Rewrite them? Ridiculous!!

@fostexfan160

Жыл бұрын

Well said. You have obviously learnt the whole purpose of Dahls books

@flinch622

Жыл бұрын

That reminds me of a great scene in Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield. After him perhaps paying Vonnegut to help write a report on his own work.... the professor flames the paper she received saying "...doesn't know the first thing about Vonnegut". So the moral of the story: read and absorb your own perspective on anything before believing any professor - or new age soapbox minder.

@spikeus3039

Жыл бұрын

@@Joyce-Mackey One of the lovely things about reading is the constant thirst for knowledge, either from the Story or the words used within the story. You begin to self teach and question what words mean. The whole thing just opens the mind up to other possibilities. Dahl's mischief was brilliant for Children!

Freedom of speech should be the same as Freedom of the written word. Some say words and write words not everybody likes. Don't read or listen, It's so easy...

“I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.”

@robertsmuggles6871

Жыл бұрын

she reminds me of Violet Elizabeth Bott from Just William.

David Starkey is totally correct! This woman doesn't realise how utterly ridiculous most of her arguments were. Kids are mollycoddled too much these days, emotionally stunted and unable in a lot of cases to deal with life.

@Scripture-Man

Жыл бұрын

All her arguments were either wrong or just plain lies. The most notable one is that she accused Roald Dahl of saying that ugly people are all bad and beautiful people are all good. That is an absolutely outrageous misrepresentation of what Mr Dahl said - in fact, he said quite the opposite in The Twits - he said that it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, if you have a good heart then this will shine out and make you look lovely! So Ms Reid is, with all due respect, a foolish woman who has been indoctrinated by foolish people.

@lavienestpasunlongfleuvetr2559

Жыл бұрын

Precisely - she evidently wants to raise naive adults who cannot think for themselves because 'Mummy' has controlled their every waking moment, and even their minds, since birth. Her children certainly won't be the better for it.

@iohnxxxx

Жыл бұрын

@@Scripture-Man well said she is a typical brainwashed fruitcake a example of left wing education

@cliff.p.resnick823

Жыл бұрын

@@Scripture-Man Rebecca Reid an example of filling quotas in education

@rileyperkins2724

Жыл бұрын

Go to America where everything is sugar-coated. You don't adopt, you 're-home; ' you don't talk to someone, you 'share' with them; you don't convert anything, you 're-purpose' it; an illegal alien is 'undocumented;' a connection is a 'nexus;' a janitor is a 'sanitary engineer;' someone who is crippled was first 'handy-able' but at last count was 'physically disadvantaged;' the list goes on and on, becoming more and more delusional and ridiculous as time passes.

That woman is everything that's wrong with the world today. How absolutely infuriating.

@jamesrobert4106

Жыл бұрын

I wish George Carlin was still alive. He would have a field day with these freak show idealists.

@MissClassix

Жыл бұрын

She also looks like someone who has been insulted many times.

@brianmeen2158

Жыл бұрын

I truly despise people like her

@robertmac9057

Жыл бұрын

She works for The Guardian. Nuff said.

@MissClassix

Жыл бұрын

@@robertmac9057: Says it all.

Well done David for not getting up and walking out as I would have done... utter rubbish this woman is preaching.

Silly women; ever learning but unable to come to the knowledge of the truth. Truly.....they should be ashamed.

But they claim that a child knows if they're 'transgender', but need guidance over a children's book??? Contradictions galore.

@benfisher1376

Жыл бұрын

Haha great point.

@samysam645

Жыл бұрын

Exactly

@beecat9951

Жыл бұрын

And Rebbeca is thoroughly pro transgenderism. What an awful hypocrite she is!

@harrygraham5810

Жыл бұрын

Kids can't read words but grooming them to be trans is ok lol 😂😂 these clowns make clown world interesting but dangerous

@stevebird7265

Жыл бұрын

I bet she is all for pervy cross-dressers reading their version of books to little children!

You CANNOT change an author’s writing. This is DESPICABLE

@mancebo7

Жыл бұрын

Anyday now they'll be retouching the paintings of the great masters...

@Scripture-Man

Жыл бұрын

I agree with what you said: "You CANNOT make adjustments to an author’s writing. This is TOTALLY LAME"

@theladdieallan

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree this is getting disgusting now.

@Scripture-Man

Жыл бұрын

@@1rickslater I'm not sure what the Bible has to do with my little gag above, but as a keen Bible translator myself, I have no problem with Bible translations! Jesus commanded His followers to make disciples of all nations, which you can't do if they can't even read the Bible! :D

@Scripture-Man

Жыл бұрын

​@@1rickslater Ah yes, I see. I agree with you about adaptations being fine. But IMHO there's a fundamental difference between creating a new adaptation or interpretation of a work, and just plain editing the original as is being done here! One is creative, adding something new to the artistic pool; the other is destructive, removing or censoring the original. I'm personally very happy that they made a "new" Superman in 1978, and a "new" Batman in 1989, instead of sticking with the old versions! :D Many such tales can be re-told time and time again in different ways with broad new interpretations, using new media and new storytelling techniques, suitable for a new audience. And that's all perfectly good fun. But what you really must not do is go back and permanently change the original work simply because you disagree with what the author wrote. To re-publish a man's books, with his name on them, yet containing new words he never wrote. That's terrible! Only the original author is entitled to make those changes. Only George Lucas has the right to modify the narrative of his Star Wars trilogy. As for the Bible, it's fascinating you should mention that, as it's a subject I am particularly zealous about. And let me just say a few words in case you find this interesting… I wasn't raised Christian, and didn't used to think the Bible was anything significant, perhaps wondering if there was some truth to parts of it, though I discounted the parts which seemed too incredible to be real. However, in my life, God has taken me through a series of profound spiritual revelations. He has spoken to me, made Himself known to me, with signs and visions, and I've had my eyes opened to so much. I've done almost a 180° turn in my life, in terms of what I believe, and all my values. I've come to realise that the Bible isn't some hap-hazard collection of ancient, irrelevant texts, randomly cobbled together and modified countless times. Nor is it some fallible creative work of folklore written by men with outdated ideas-even though it may (deceptively) appear so. The Bible is, in fact, the eternal, inerrant, spiritual word of God, where every sub-book, chapter and verse is present and correct, with its compilation having been overseen by God's guiding hand across time and space. So while the Bible was written by human beings, God Himself is the true author, working through them. (Kind of like how in Transformers Bumblebee speaks by re-tuning the radio, compiling other men's words to get his own message across!) I've also come to learn that the Bible is provably true, containing hundreds of predictions which came true, often with astounding accuracy, plus scientific detail that no one at the time could have verified but we now know to be true. The text itself also has amazing mathematical properties which prove it to be divine! So while I'm all in favour of translating or modernising the vocabulary of the holy texts, the words themselves are extremely precious - perfect and divine, and should therefore never be changed, removed, or added to. In fact, God Himself warns against editing the Bible - right at the very end of the Bible, the third verse from the end: "​For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book." If anyone's still reading this…wow! You have some patience! :D I've got videos coming soon(ish) so feel free to keep an eye on my channel :-)

Read many Roald Dahl books in school and i never questioned the words used. I only cared about the stories. Fantastic books by a fantastic author.

I am glad I was able to read what ever I wanted. She is nuts.

I read Enid Blyton as a working class child and it opened up a world that was totally alien to me. I loved them because of that. God this women is bats!

@overcomerbtbojesus

Жыл бұрын

“bats” 😂🤣😂🤣

@keith6400

Жыл бұрын

As I recall any violence in Enid Blyton's books was different animals having a fight. In this way she avoided people fighting.

@philipchurchill6508

Жыл бұрын

Are you aware that Bliyton has been messed with ? , must be 20 years ago now, ironically I think pictures stopped showing noddy and big ears sleeping in the same bed ,also something about a policeman no longer dishing out spankings in toy town , Iam just going by memory JB but my memory is quite good , I think it was on kaliedascope on radio 4 , what a silly cow that woman is , good what Starkey said though I dont like his politics

@keith6400

Жыл бұрын

@@philipchurchill6508 I think we need to keep old books as written. It is then possible to determine what was acceptable at that time. In this way you can look back and see how people thought back then.

@ebnanaann5644

Жыл бұрын

Yes I was brought up on Enid Blyton it gave me the inspiration I needed.

Under no circumstances should anyone feel they are in the position to edit another writer’s work, change the language, the rhythm and thoughts. It’s outrageous! Read a different child’s book, in that case - just find something else. All authors should be able to write as they choose, without limit on their creativity and imagination - as mentioned by Queen Consort Camilla a few days ago 👍👍 Starkey is right - it’s pathetic!

@stephencollins9062

Жыл бұрын

They have already done it to Catch-22, abhorrent vandalism

@carys4231

Жыл бұрын

@@stephencollins9062 - it’s a slippery slope to ‘thought police’ and an utterly homogenised world - both in literary context and spoken word too. We all need to hang on to the original works!

@anthony5868

Жыл бұрын

@@carys4231 - it’s not a “slippery slope to”, it’s a cliff we’ve already leapt off. Just most don’t realise it yet.

@tomwright9904

Жыл бұрын

Yeah... but this points at q motive for me. Allowing publishers to make money from a franchise that would otherwise become valueless. The discussion then becomes about how to protect the "cultural commons feom capitalism'. Don't buy it and moan us one defence. Banning the book seems extreme.... so then you get into mandating labelling and how much you should do it. The conservative equivalent of misinformation.

@kimberleymarkova3641

Жыл бұрын

Yep, just consign it all to the bin. Not worth the time to edit.

He's 100% right

“Did the Toad consent?” What on earth is this World coming too? Good on you David.

Kids are looking at graphic porn and nobody is saying anything. It’s gross

@emmyjo720

Жыл бұрын

Tik Toc is more dangerous than Roald Dahl.

The Twits didnt say if you're ugly you're a bad kid at all. I thought it was a good message, that as an adult I still often think about - that if you try to live a miserable life and be miserable to others, over time your face becomes miserable as well!! It teaches children to try to be as positive as they can be!!

Well I read Ronald Dahl’s book as a kid in the 90s and my parents never talked to me about the language used and I never went around saying inappropriate or mean things to people because of them. Most kids know right from wrong same with language.

Everybody gets offended. That’s just part of life. David is spot on.

@michaelcoward1902

Жыл бұрын

Yeah...for example look at all these Gbeebies viewers who are in the absolute pit of outrage because a new version of a book came out...Ooh it doesn't fit their politics and now they're all throwing their teddies out the pram and bursting into tears...even though you can still buy the original version literally anywhere. Sad thing is, you Gbeebies viewers don't even realise that you are the worst offenders of outrage culture...Literally every single day you're red faced and ranting about something new...

@alphabet2238

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelcoward1902 The issue though is that the books were politicised in the first place, sure there were messages in Dahls books, as well as almost every book in existence, but millions of children over the years have read them and almost all of them have turned into decent adults. Now, some people think that they need to shelter children as they are afraid these works might offend somebody. If people don't take a stand at this point then these kinds of people will only continue and will become bolder and bolder in what they do. And that is a fact of human nature. If there wasn't such backlash then there would only just be the one new version.

@johnatkinson7126

Жыл бұрын

​@@michaelcoward1902 a new version of the book not written by the author perhaps the person rewriting it should try writing something original of their own

@chrissedaka8141

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelcoward1902 Your surname is very fitting. Imagine thinking that people objecting to cultural revisionism are in the wrong. You're also being rather disingenuous when you say one can buy the original edition any time. If true, then children will have access to it, thereby rendering the revisionist version ineffectual in its stated purpose. Accordingly, you and I both know that the purpose of this new edition is to supplant prior versions in the cultural canon, in which case those earlier versions will be increasingly hard to come by, per the *actual* intent of the changes being made. The only red face here is yours, courtesy of your communist apologia.

I love David Starkey, he was cancelled by the woke left because he speaks the truth. He made that large Woman look daft.

@julienewman1761

Жыл бұрын

Not large. Fat.

@adetolaayodele3425

Жыл бұрын

You are a ''full''. He does not speak the truth all the time.

@RussiaIsARiddle778

Жыл бұрын

@@adetolaayodele3425But it is HIS truth. Ha 😂 🫢 you can’t have it both ways.

@stephencollins9062

Жыл бұрын

@@adetolaayodele3425 groomer spotted.

@stuartmenziesfarrant

Жыл бұрын

...it isn't hard to do!

Wow!! David Starkey is an intellectually gifted Gem! We need more like him!

David is absolutely correct

The Prince kissed Snow White goodbye when she died. He wasnt trying to violate her ffs!! Get a grip!!!

This is one seriously screwed up woman. She actually says she would never read her kid Snow White because the Princess did not consent to being kissed by the Prince. 🤣

@lindapearson2376

Жыл бұрын

AMEN!

@st5848

Жыл бұрын

I feel sorry for her kids!!

@HogsBum

Жыл бұрын

She's the same with everything. If it's pathetic she's all over it.

@justinbarber4567

Жыл бұрын

I thought you were joking until I actually heard her say it. God help us!

@davemcwilliam1227

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that was she lost me in the debate. 😆

I'm a book dealer, none of mine will ever be censored, I have just cancelled cancelled culture, their sorted!!

@kimmac231

Жыл бұрын

Well done

@pblossom3757

Жыл бұрын

I work for a charity popping books online to sell.. its sad how many beautiful books are deemed non sellable due to the odd word or phrase..

@SNUSNU-lz7dh

Жыл бұрын

Well done 👏 Keep our literature safe and intact

@Enl1thened1

Жыл бұрын

@@pblossom3757 to me, that's their problem, and, there's always people out there who appreciate our true history, and the thing is with history, it always always repeats itself, don't give up

@pblossom3757

Жыл бұрын

@@Enl1thened1 🙌🌟🙌

I read Charlie and the chocolate factory to my Mum in the kitchen as a 6 year old, so proud I could read a book , I am now 52 , my Mum is 82, she still remembers that .

@davekiddie4467

Жыл бұрын

Have you left the nest yet?

Thank God for Dr David Starkey!! The contrast between the intellects of these two is striking.

The debate became “intellectually dishonest” when they chose someone who is ‘intellectually bankrupt’ to try and debate Starkey on this subject. As an older chap, it sends a shiver down my spine that women like this are in charge of raising future generations. What kind of weak and feeble minded people are we producing where we have to use censorship to protect their fragile little minds? We’re not doing children any favours by ‘protecting’ them from words.

@pblossom3757

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! I recently listened to a discussion on Radio 4 where a young woman in charge of student welfare and curriculum at a University, was stating that it is right that an Archaeology Degree has warnings before lectures that the images and lecture will show bones .. she felt it was highly necessary to protect students from being upset..

@mssami1664

Жыл бұрын

What he said about the Quran is completely wrong. What he described is in the Bible but not in the Quran

@jennyj0007

Жыл бұрын

​@p blossom the makes no sense. When people eat KFc, there are bones there? So, in her stupid logic there should be a warning before going to KFC 🍗

@anthonytaylor9232

Жыл бұрын

@@mssami1664 BS on your part!

@sammic7492

Жыл бұрын

I hate to point this out but MEN are also responsible for raising children, the fact you ignore this sends a shiver down my spine.

People like her are what is wrong with this world. We are descending into complete madness.

@timecapsule.

Жыл бұрын

We are not descending into madness... We have reached peak madness.

@quatz1981

Жыл бұрын

@@timecapsule. Think you are right.

@frankgradus9474

Жыл бұрын

She should write her own books for her children then, and keep them, her children, away from Dahl's books. I'm sorry for her kids. Wokery is a state of mind. Twisted mind.

@realMaverickBuckley

Жыл бұрын

Look at the vitriol on her face.

@bitcoinisfreedommoney.fckt2663

Жыл бұрын

Stop whining and buy Bitcoin. It solves this nonsense

"Read them in a safe way" - who gets to define what the "safe way" is. Answer me that Rebecca. She's advocating for something she definitely doesn't want to fall afoul of, but wants everybody else to play along instead.

Dear Rebecca....Write your own woke books by all means and see if you can sell them. Do not have the audacity to interfere with the books written by our loved successful and talented writers. You have no right! Dahl would be rotating in his grave and do everything in his power to stop you and you know it well enough....Books which have been interfered with in this way should have a warning printed in bold letters on the front cover: "THIS WORK WRITTEN BY A SOMEBODY HAS BEEN ALTERED BY A NOBODY".

@rubytuesday5815

Жыл бұрын

Well said 👏👏👏

@laurameszaros9547

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow, what a brilliant and truthful warning that would be!!

@rayleekain3921

Жыл бұрын

Love it. So true.

I cannot believe we are having this conversation

@Baglady111

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, sad isn’t it that we’ve come to this.

Enid Blyton has language that would be illegal now?! What ever happened to me when I read them 75 years ago?

I was a child when this issue was about Noddy and the books disappeared off the library shelves for a long time. My siblings, friends and I were outraged because we loved Noddy and we were all indignant that adults were inferring that we didn't know right from wrong. We knew it was fiction. We knew Noddy was naughty: That was the appeal. We also knew not to copy him. Don't denigrate children's intelligence, give them the opportunity to learn and discern. I'm a teacher BTW and understand that children are able to be critical thinkers.

I can see why Rebecca has a issue with the words fat and ugly ! 😂👍

@Musical_Man_Guitar

Жыл бұрын

Ouch...lol

@barbaradyson6951

Жыл бұрын

Agree

@DieFlabbergast

Жыл бұрын

How about "stupid"? That would be even more on point.

@martyn6792

Жыл бұрын

Another example of wokery and pushing their views on everyone else

@jeevathambiah3747

Жыл бұрын

Ooh, the burn. 😉

No, no, no censorship, stop changing things to protect feelings, it is ridiculous.

@greyvoice7949

Жыл бұрын

People need their feelings to be challenged!

@milly4556

Жыл бұрын

The whole point of a book is people have these personalities/differences etc. why should we censor that?? It’s a STORY!!!

@johnnycalvino7490

Жыл бұрын

It's not even about other's feelings, because no one is genuinely offended. It's all about virtue signalling.

@angelaeastwood3938

Жыл бұрын

I agree it's the people themselves that has the issues of being offended with all things . 🙄

@anthonytaylor9232

Жыл бұрын

@@milly4556 personalities and differences are not confined to stories and books. They exist within the human condition, and are usually the sources for STORIES !

i can see why she doesn t like the word fat

Rebecca refused to utter a single word against the Koran

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - George Orwell, 1984.

@mancebo7

Жыл бұрын

Spot on.

@fusionfan6883

Жыл бұрын

Orwell was so prescient on so many issues that are now afflicting our modern society. Sadly, if things continue this way, there will be no more Orwells or other great thinkers, because our children will not understand true history, will not be able to think beyond the present and will not feel free to express any challenging thoughts or ideas. As Starkey says, it is the return of the Puritans, and cancel culture is the modern term for blasphemy. Particularly pernicious is the way this is being disseminated by so many so called academics in Universities and colleges, and whereas this cancer really started there, it is now seeping down to ever younger in the education system, as well as being transported into the wider world as these students going into work and take up management roles. Critical thinking skills should be taught at an early age so that children are not so fragile that they cannot entertain differing thoughts or be challenged to understand the hard realities of life.

@beckyboo1352

Жыл бұрын

The parallels between the book 1984 and what society is becoming is truly terrifying.

Dr Starkey is ABSOLUTELY right. This new pathetic generation is catastrophising absolutely everything. It is going to end up in a REVOLT from the children who've had enough of all this dumbing down.

@hittitecharioteer

Жыл бұрын

'Pathetic' is the word alright.

@youtubefans510

Жыл бұрын

that's how the political left can control the story line , and feed the children with their ideas

@randomonlineuser6401

Жыл бұрын

I agree, i have a feeling that their's going to be a huge pushback, in which we will see a huge cultural shift from the new gen. Against this Extreme wokeism and I'm moderately liberal myself.

@josephsalmonte4995

Жыл бұрын

The kids won't revolt lol. Lack of intelligence breeds apathetic attitudes. They don't care about history. They care about the Kardashians, fame & getting rich from streaming

Pudgy the Puritan was sweating bullets at the thought of having to answer that last question with the same logic as she did the other questions.

i read Charlie and the chocolate factory but didn't go around calling people with dwarfism oompa loompa's and i watched pulp fiction when i was 8yrs old but i didn't go around swearing and killing people... she has no valid point with saying it effects how children grow up... its the parents that teach there kids manners, discipline and common sense.

@foreverhungry7777

Жыл бұрын

Her argument was there may not be responsible parent figures and she essentially wants to act as the de-factor parent. That to me is just beyond weird.

"So you want the Koran censored" - "Buh...."

Actually, what the author says in the Twits is that you have supposedly ugly facial features but that beauty can still shine through if you are a beautiful character, and vice versa, because it's what's on the inside that counts. It is really shameful that Rebecca can't even understand a children's book.

@biscuitheque79

Жыл бұрын

👏

@thejunglekitchen

Жыл бұрын

You are 100% right. I also found it quite ironic that she mentioned fairy tales such as Cinderella. In Revolting Rhymes, Roald Dahl opens his version of Cinderella with the lines "I guess you think you know this story. You don’t. The real one’s much more gory. The phoney one, the one you know, Was cooked up years and years ago, And made to sound all soft and sappy"

@SuSang666

Жыл бұрын

That would be too deep for these snowflakes - read the whole thing and think about the real meaning of the text.

@paulmorris9605

Жыл бұрын

she probably hasnt even read any dahl

@SuSang666

Жыл бұрын

@Wasssup Dawwwg Well said. She's a hypocrite.

I’m a gay mid-30s married man. I grew up on Dahl’s books, they opened the door for my love of literature when I was very young. They never were or are offensive, they simply stoked my imagination with wonder & humour. Make no mistake, this type of soft-censorship under the guise of concern for wellbeing, is a noose around our necks that we should both adamantly & enthusiastically renounce and resist at every turn. Children need fear, they need death and sadness and real life. They need this to understand emotion and balance & they are often far more perceptive to it than adults realise. They crave it too. They enquire about it and are often discouraged for their asking. We should not be shielding them from the reality of life, but we should be ensuring things are accessed at appropriate age stages. This used to be called parenting and was the responsibility of the child’s biological progenitors.

If you change the shapes and colours of a painting or the shape of a sculpture it is not longer what it was. It should be re-named.

Think we can all agree reading these books in 60s/70s/ 80s as kids didn't turn US into the weirdo generation that exists today.

@webbo9798

Жыл бұрын

Meanwhile kids now are potentially exposed to absolutely "everything" imaginable on social media........but thats ...OK.

@melb5996

Жыл бұрын

@@webbo9798 no it isn’t “OK” but I really hope that you understand the difference between social media and books?

@webbo9798

Жыл бұрын

@@melb5996 I'm simply making the comparisons in terms of whats being exposed to kids on social media as opposed to a few innocent books - yes I do know the difference

@oldshiny3012

Жыл бұрын

No the internet fame game turn ppl into wet attention seeking lettuces

@keithg1xfl

Жыл бұрын

Well Said !

God Bless David Starkey. A true British original and a national treasure.

@mssami1664

Жыл бұрын

I mainly agree with him, but what he said about the Quran is completely wrong. What he described is in the Bible but not in the Quran

@iohnxxxx

Жыл бұрын

@@mssami1664 go and read willy wonka book

@belledecaucase

Жыл бұрын

​@@mssami1664Read verse 34 Surat Al Nisa. It teaches husband s can lightly hit their wives if they suspect high handedness from their wives.

@iohnxxxx

Жыл бұрын

@@belledecaucase go read willy wonka book ease ur brain

@ljon2243

Жыл бұрын

Unless you are unquaxed. He doesn't like that sort of person.

Don’t give them an inch!

If you put in different words, it is a different book. Re-writre Green Eggs and Ham and it is no longer that book.

This woman can ban books for the children in HER home, but she should butt out of interfering with other people's choice of reading material for THEIR children. My children were raised with all the Classic stories as well as more modern ones. They knew they were STORIES and not real! They always recognized who the good people were and who the baddies were. LEAVE OUR KIDS ALONE!! 📖📚

David Starkey the voice of common sense as always

The thoughts of shallow women like this making the rules on what we and our children should read is very depressing Mary Whitehouse comes to mind

I was genuinely unsure how I felt about this subject, but boy David has convinced me. A perfect argument from him I thought.

I read all the Roald Dahl books as a kid and thought they were just fun stories. That’s it. Kids don’t need babying.

When Starkey finally departs, he will never be replaced…

@JwayT

Жыл бұрын

He needs to be cloned.

@weep5426

Жыл бұрын

@@JwayT who isnt cloned these days.

@MasalaMan

Жыл бұрын

Well he's got to be by somebody.

@brianjones4026

Жыл бұрын

the same for Britain and its values ! These social marxists just want to burn everything down so that they can replace it with their insane unlivable Dogma and Total control of Everything and Everyone !

@robot336

Жыл бұрын

V FOR VENDETTA COMMING TO LIFE UNTIL THE LEFT CENSOR'S IT AS WELL 👿👿

This woman is what's wrong with our country I read them books when I was a kid it didn't worp my mind also get her starky

Next comes book burning

If they censor Roald Dahl where do you stop. This world is going crazy.

@roslewis9923

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, next step adult works

@majorlaff8682

Жыл бұрын

Dr Seuss will be next. Veganidiots will declare war on 'Green eggs and ham'.

Dr Starkey is right. The way it is going The Hunch Back of Notre Dam' will become 'The Gentleman in the Bell Tower with a bad back.' ludicrous

@harpothehealer

Жыл бұрын

@whatnextincomo Good point, I meant the Gentleperson or moving object in Bell Tower ☺

@peteratkinson922

Жыл бұрын

Or the retired plumber with tinnitus and a third place in a Charles Laughton lookalike contest with 2 entries.

@gregorytaylor9104

Жыл бұрын

The woke mob is treating Western culture as the hunchback.

@rontwentyone

Жыл бұрын

The word bad might offend though and they may not identify as a gentleman. 😏

@harpothehealer

Жыл бұрын

@@rontwentyone Good point, Ill try , a back with complications allegedly and gentleperson or moving object in bell tower hearing aid may facilitate😄

David Starkey is one of the few people worth listening to.

I’d like to tell the woman on the left… I grew up in a single parent home. My dad absolutely neglected me aside from keeping me fed and taking me to school, so I found myself lost in books. This one reason why Matilda appealed to me, because I didn’t have parents who were loving just like her. I read and re read every Ronald Dahl book I could get my hands on and got lost in these worlds .. but at the end of the day I knew that they were stories and fiction. I did not see old women as HAGS or think Mexicans only ate grasshoppers nor was I disturbed by the vicious Knids (though the tunnel scene in the movie was creepy AF) leave these gems of classic literature alone. The kids will be just fine. I grew up getting along well with others and turned into a somewhat successful adult despite being a Ronald Dahl fanatic :)

Rebecca Reid telling people what they'll be offended by 🤷🤦 Bloody hell !! I think myself and my children can think for ourselves what we'll be offended by or not, thank you. What's the world come too

@melb5996

Жыл бұрын

My eyes are offended every time she is dragged out by GB News.

@El.Cid17

Жыл бұрын

Shouldn't GB news issue a Rebecca warning, before she's on 🤔🤣🤣

@user-xc7gb8gj6r

Жыл бұрын

@@melb5996 attention seeking at its highest

@Scripture-Man

Жыл бұрын

She has to tell you what you'll find offensive about Roald Dahl's books, because if you ACTUALLY READ THEM you won't find the things she says. She's actually lied about it. Like when she said "The Twits" says that ugly people are all evil. Actually, it says the opposite - Roald said that it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, if you have a good heart that will shine through and make you look lovely. But Ms Reid is a liar.

@alyb731

Жыл бұрын

I’ve never heard of this woman but she sounds like a complete nit wit. It should be up to the parents what books their kids read, I grew up with Enid Blyton and it didn’t do me any harm.

Intelligence vs woke insanity. Love it.

I find the woman's opinion insulting. Even as a child I understood the historical context with which books were written. Children aren't stupid unlike these sensitivity grifters.

They both make absolutely great arguments!!!

Rebecca Reid speaking at her usual fast rate, so no one will actually pick up on the utter nonsense she is spouting. I don't think I'd want to pick up any of her novels. May I direct her to the Saki short story Toys of Peace.

Sick of people taking offence at anything and wanting to force their feeble offence on others through censorship!

@lucia201189

Жыл бұрын

Yep they cant live and left live , question is who is funding these loonies who have got nothing better to do with their time

@sirbarnabyst.johntoffingto9017

Жыл бұрын

Precisely! The censorship of the past are acts taken by c_(comment censored by KZread)_ts!!

@bennyhillschineseblokechar3689

Жыл бұрын

Ironically, many comments will be censored by some soppy dingbat numpty from KZread!!

This is really pissing me off! Are they going to do the same with the history book? And this old guy is an idiot! He said its not like any of the uneducated parents would show their kids a book is it? 😮im what you’d class as uneducated, I taught my child to read before she started school! How dare he 🤨

BOOK BURNING IN 2023

The Twits does not say if you have an ugly face you are an ugly person. It says if you only have ugly thoughts, eventually you become ugly. It's as if people jump in and criticise that as bad without even reading the book.

@sqwalnoc

Жыл бұрын

yes. she totally missed the point. Dahl's point was that even if you're physically ugly, if you're a nice person your inner beauty shines through

@brianjamesgillott5034

Жыл бұрын

There was a lot of ejaculating at Greyfriars.

That woman is out of her mind. I was an avid reader as a child and read all the versions of Cinderella, including the one where the step sisters chopped off their toes. I was not damaged as a result! Whenever I read something I found weird or curious, I used to talk with my Mom about it. Those discussions are honestly some of my most cherished memories. I am one of ten children, so it was really the only time I had an opportunity to talk one on one with my mother.

@maggie9000mc

Жыл бұрын

Last year I read my kid the chopped off fingers version. He seems more than alright. Even though we're portuguese and he's only 8, he's reading fluently in English as well thanks to Roald Dahl. We have multiple editions in both portuguese and english. The first book he wanted to read by himself was The Twits. This year they presented a book at school and he did The Witches, with most kids having read small and much more childish books with little plot in them. Part of their charm is how these books were written and how that makes the experience enjoyable for children... Not that I'm a fan of Piers Morgan, but the I don't think it's unfair to draw comparisons to China... it's all quite sad to watch

@witchygal2703

Жыл бұрын

I totally agree with this. I read the foot-chopping version as a child and I was like 'that sister was stupid, you shouldn't be doing that' and in no way, shape or form was traumatized.