Ep 759 | Book-Banning Brigade Comes for Roald Dahl

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

Blaze Podcast Network

News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, News Commentary

4.6 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Today we're talking about beloved children's author Roald Dahl, author of books such as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Matilda," who was in the news after Puffin, the publisher of his books, hired sensitivity readers to make his writings "less offensive." This, in their eyes, means removing references to women and men (making the language "gender-neutral") and removing the word "fat" (but keeping the word "enormous") and "ugly" (but keeping the word "beastly"). Meanwhile, the French publisher makes no plans to change the language, claiming it's fine as is. We talk about the irony of the Left censoring beloved children's books, yet pushing pornographic content to kids in schools. Then, we discuss beauty guru and YouTuber Jeffree Star, who made headlines when he claimed on a podcast that "they/them" pronouns are ridiculous (despite himself being an "LGBTQ icon") and Don Lemon's claims on air at CNN that Nikki Haley, who is running for president in 2024, is "past her prime." Catch Allie's live Q&A this Thursday, February 23 at 11:45am CT, exclusively for BlazeTV subscribers. If you're not a BlazeTV subscriber head over to BlazeTV.com/OFFTHERECORD and sign up today so you can join the conversation. Use promo code OFFTHERECORD. --- Timecodes: (01:48) Roald Dahl (29:39) Jeffree Star (37:33) Don Lemon --- Today's Sponsors: A'Del — go to adelnaturalcosmetics.com and enter promo code "ALLIE" for 25% off your first order! Naturally It's Clean — visit https://naturallyitsclean.com/allie and use promo code "ALLIE" to receive 15% off your order. If you are an Amazon shopper you can visit https://amzn.to/3IyjFUJ. The promo code discount is only valid on their direct website at www.naturallyitsclean.com/Allie. Epic Will — be intentional about your family, your values and your wishes. Go to EpicWill.com/ALLIE and you’ll save 10% on your complete Will package. --- Links: The Guardian: "Roald Dahl books rewritten to remove language deemed offensive" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/18/roald-dahl-books-rewritten-to-remove-language-deemed-offensive The Guardian: "Publisher of Roald Dahl books in French has ‘no plans’ for rewrite" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/21/publisher-of-roald-dahl-books-in-french-no-plans-for-rewrite NY Post: “Jeffree Star trashes pronoun culture: ‘They and them is made up s–t’” https://nypost.com/2023/02/21/jeffree-star-on-pronoun-culture-they-and-them-is-made-up/ AP News: “Don Lemon to return to CNN, undergo ‘formal training’” https://apnews.com/article/don-lemon-nikki-haley-344670aba56c09e97b60df2469735bf8 --- Relevant Episodes: Ep 495 | The Truth About ‘Social Emotional Learning’ & What Your Kids Are Reading | Guest: Sherry Clemens https://apple.co/3IpDawS --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Roll Dolls children's books are being edited to be less offensive makeup influencer Jeffrey star is being applauded by
0:08.6	conservatives and
0:10.2	Don Lemon says Nikki Haley is past her prime at the ripe old age of 51
0:14.8	You know because the president that we currently have is so vivacious and sharp this episode is brought to you by our friends
0:21.4	Not good ranchers good a good ranchers calm use promo code alley a checkout for a discount as good ranchers calm code alley
0:37.5	Hey guys welcome to relatable happy Wednesday. Hope everyone's having a wonderful week
0:42.5	My son brun and I we're still here. It's getting better also. Wow if you're watching this on YouTube my hair is kind of wild today
0:48.9	Um, yeah, sunburn's still here. It's still in my face too. My face is in its like a leather era right now
0:55.0	So you probably can't really tell underneath the lights in the makeup, but it's like starting to like crack and peel and things like that
1:02.2	Where your sunscreen people?
1:04.2	Where your sunscreen if you need to know more about my sunburn and my PSA about sunscreen
1:09.0	You can listen to yesterday's episode. All right. We're gonna talk about some I mean fun things to talk about
1:14.3	I don't know if they are necessarily fun. They're a little bit more lighthearted even though they are serious because we're talking about
1:20.7	Our culture taking a free fall into others
1:24.5	Do pitty but it can it can be a little bit lighter feel a little better to talk about these things rather than talk about things like nuclear war
1:32.4	Right, and that's what we had to discuss yesterday
1:34.8	So we're gonna talk about some of these culture war issues and react to some clips that have been circulating on Twitter and just
1:39.8	Well, okay, what in the world this says about our culture and then of course try to speak clarity into the chaos
1:45.2	Okay, first we're gonna talk about this rolled dull
1:49.0	Story which I just find his name to be really difficult to say for some reason
1:53.3	I think it's because of where the elves are located in his name and even though I read his short stories growing up
1:59.4	I don't know if I've ever actually really said his name out loud
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