Agatha Christie: The Mob’s Next Sacrifice on the Inclusivity Altar

Ah… another day, another example of politically correct groveling in the name of social justice and the virtuous pursuit of inclusivity!

At this point, no one’s surprised when it comes time for yet another author to have their work filtered and changed. Next up on the chopping block is one of my all-time favorites. She’s also one of the best-selling authors of all time (her works only come on the heels of Shakespeare and the Bible). I mean… if there’s anyone’s expertise we should be questioning, it’s hers, right?

From the Daily Wire:

The best-selling author of all time outside of William Shakespeare can now join fellow British authors Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming by suffering the ignominy of having her books edited for woke purposes.

The works of Agatha Christie, whose mysteries featuring detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple delighted readers enough for her novels to have sold between two to four billion copies, have been altered in new editions published by HarperCollins.

HarperCollins has “created new editions of the entire run of Miss Marple mysteries and selected Poirot novels,” The Telegraph reports.

Examples of the bowdlerization of Christie’s novels include altering the inner narration of Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple. Other examples include the character of Miss Allerton in “Death on the Nile,” who disparaged children by saying, “they come back and stare, and stare, and their eyes are simply disgusting, and so are their noses, and I don’t believe I really like children,” now state, “They come back and stare, and stare. And I don’t believe I really like children.”

Also in “Death on the Nile,” references to the Nubian people have been elided.

The term “Oriental” is no longer extant in the HarperCollins editions; a “grinning” black servant has been changed to someone not black and  “nodding.” In “A Caribbean Mystery,” the description of a West Indian hotel worker having “such lovely white teeth” has been stricken; “beautiful teeth” has also been removed.

The word “natives” has either been removed or replaced with “local”.

Should I find irony in the fact that Agatha Christie, history’s most popular and best-selling female author, is a target of the mob during women’s history month? We’ve already established that the left *does not* actually care about women, but this really p*sses me off.

Virtually no one reads anymore. I’ve asked around, and it’s actually kinda scary how books are playing second fiddle to Google and YouTube. So basically what we’re doing is changing these books for a crop of morons who will almost certainly never read them anyway…

I bring a book with me to read before class, and my peers legitimately think I’m a weirdo. But… I’d rather be a well-read “freak” than an ignorant jacka$$, so it doesn’t really bother me. It’s also a crowd-pleaser for your professors because it’s such a rarity, so I’ll call it a win-win.

Keeping that in mind… I’m not a fan of the “let’s edit books” movement. Getting rid of stuff like that doesn’t help anyone. All it does is rob people of the opportunity to learn from the past. The capacity to consider the context of a different time period is lost. Additionally, the ability to be able to critically consider why those things are now considered wrong also becomes a bygone.

Maybe I’m old-fashioned for valuing the f*ck around and find out approach, but I still think it’s the best way to learn. Set out to learn the offensive stuff that no one wants you to know. That’s where you find life’s best lessons. We left the task of teaching and learning up to the people who value sexual orientation and melanin content over intellectual growth. This is the kind of sh*tty results we get…

Critical thinking, reading, and research. These are some of the most important tenets of any healthy society. Unfortunately, they seem to be severely lacking at present. We should probably fix that. Quickly.

“The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.” – Agatha Christie