Apparently, according to this article, Enid Blyton’s books have been ‘updated’ and republished. ‘Updating’ in this case means changing all of the golliwogs to teddy bears, and removing all references to capital punishment. A classic quote:
But Rosemary Johnston, of the University of Technology, Sydney, said the works needed to be updated to reflect current values.
Perhaps, then, we should update The Tempest, removing Caliban and replacing him with a member of Al-Qaeda would be appropriate. And don’t forget Othello. Better replace him with a non-Black, non-Muslim character.
And then, in the final touch to updating works for our times, we can do a search-and-replace on ‘Mein Kampf’; replace ‘Jew’ with ‘Illegal Immigrant’.
Bah.