James Bond is the latest fictional character to get a woke rewrite by so-called Sensitivity Readers. This is quickly becoming a nationwide epidemic, and it really does matter. Plus, MSNBC defends Biden from the ageist bigots who say that maybe it s not a good idea to have an elderly dementia patient as president, and participants of an inclusivity workshop at the University of Michigan struggle to answer the question, What is a woman? It s a trick question, they say. All that and more on the Matt Warshaw Show.
00:00:00.140Today on the Matt Wall Show, James Bond is the latest fictional character to get a woke rewrite by so-called sensitivity readers.
00:00:06.700This is quickly becoming a nationwide epidemic, and it really does matter. I'll explain.
00:00:11.160Plus, MSNBC defends Biden from the ageist bigots who say that, you know, maybe it's not a good idea to have an elderly dementia patient as president.
00:00:18.720And participants of an inclusivity workshop at the University of Michigan struggle to answer the question, what is a woman?
00:00:23.980It's a trick question, they say. All of that and more on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:01:38.560Last week, we heard about an especially loathsome group of people, members of a profession that shouldn't exist,
00:01:46.020like abortionists and prostitutes, perhaps ranked right in between those two on the evil scale.
00:01:50.420This is a group called Sensitivity Readers, and the group first made it onto my radar and the radar of lots of other people
00:01:56.900after it was announced that one of my fellow beloved children's authors, Roald Dahl,
00:02:02.120was enduring from the grave the humiliation of having his work posthumously rewritten
00:02:06.520to remove and change, quote, insensitive language.
00:02:10.440The people that Dahl's publisher had put in charge of this task were called sensitivity readers,
00:02:16.040whose only job is to read and be sensitive.
00:02:19.300Now, not sensitive to the author's legacy or intentions, not sensitive to what sort of language
00:02:24.660is most descriptive or interesting, not sensitive to the integrity of the work that they're butchering,
00:02:31.620not sensitive to any of that, but sensitive especially and only to the rules of wokeism.
00:02:37.120As it happens, after backlash against this PC hatchet job of a great and prolific writer,
00:02:42.140the publisher announced later last week that the unchanged and unmolested texts would now still be available to purchase.
00:02:52.220So they will offer the sensitive version and then also the insensitive original version.
00:02:58.040Now both will be on sale and you can choose.
00:03:00.320It's supposed to make everything better, but it only manages to make the whole situation even more grotesque and gratuitous in a lot of ways,
00:03:06.420because suddenly we're treating the works of recently deceased modern authors as though they're ancient manuscripts in a foreign language.
00:03:14.540Multiple versions, multiple interpretations, multiple translations are all offered.
00:03:18.940You know, the Bible has the KJV and the NIV and dozens of other English translations.
00:03:25.900Well, Roald Dahl will soon have the original, the woke, the uber woke, the woker than woke,
00:03:32.800and then another version where every single book is just a picture of a trans guy beating a Republican over the head with a pride flag.
00:03:40.540But the scourge of the sensitivity reader stretches far beyond Roald Dahl.
00:03:44.740His case is but the tip of a purple-haired iceberg.