It’s come to this, but has a lot further to go.
From The Times.
PG Wodehouse is the latest author to have their [sic] work altered after a publishing house edited several Jeeves and Wooster books as part of an effort to remove “unacceptable” prose.
The novels Right Ho, Jeeves and Thank You, Jeeves, both released in 1934, have had passages reworked or removed in new editions published by Penguin Random House to strip them of language that modern audiences might find offensive.
What’s worse, people are actually paid for this Bowdlerizing.
Penguin employs sensitivity readers to vet both new publications and older works for potentially offensive language and descriptions.
Worst of all:
The rebooting of cherished fictional characters of the past has become a profitable industry for publishers, authors and estates in recent years.
So there’s little incentive for publishers’s wrecking crews to merrily continue their sanitizing literary classics to appease the woke brigades, who wouldn’t be caught dead reading them to begin with. What will they come after next? Cookbooks? Dictionaries?
The Taos Tatler 