Kulturkampf

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/30/terry-pratchett-discworld-content-warning-outdated-attitude/

Terry Pratchett’s Discworld gets an unlikely visitor – a content warning
Audiobook versions of the novels, first published in the Eighties, to warn listeners of ‘outdated’ attitudes prominent at the time.

Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series has been given a warning that the content may reflect Eighties attitudes.

The beloved comic fantasy series began in 1983 with The Colour of Magic, and Sir Terry went on to produce 40 more.

They are set on a disc-shaped world which rests on the back of four giant elephants, which are standing on the shell of an interplanetary turtle.

However, Penguin Random House, which publishes the novels, has brought them thudding back down to Earth with a warning appended to its audiobooks.

It read: “The first book in the Discworld series – The Colour of Magic – was published in 1983. Some elements of the Discworld universe may reflect this.”

Penguin Random House refused to elaborate on why the alert had been added to the audiobooks. It is not currently appended to the print editions.

A spokesman said: “This is not a trigger warning, but rather a note providing some context for the listener. The author’s estate is aligned.”

The same publisher was responsible for rewriting Roald Dahl’s books for children, a decision which prompted an international backlash.

I'm assuming this is because the early rincewind books are a light hearted pisstake of non-specific asian tourists (Twoflower was obviously meant to be japanese but much much much later was more obviously chinese) but if you point that out you're gonna get the usual wokescolds kicking off about racism when it was more just about culture clash and how weird tourists inherently are