After Roald Dahl, James Bond Books Edited To Remove 'Offensive' References
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The move comes after an assessment of the James Bond series by sensitive readers which was commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications.
Racist phrases have been removed from the original James Bond novels from the 1950s and 1960s following a sensitivity review, as per a report in the Telegraph. In April, fresh installments of Ian Fleming's well-known book series will be made available to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the author's first novel "Casino Royale", which was initially published in 1953.
Terms such as the n-word, which featured in those decades have been edited in the novels. In the novels which were released between 1951 and 1966, the commonly derogatory term for Black people has been almost fully replaced by "Black person" or "Black man".
However, references to other ethnicities, such as an expression for east Asian people and Bond's mocking views of Oddjob, Goldfinger's Korean henchman, still remain. Apart from this, references to the "sweet tang of rape", "blithering women" failing to do a "man's work" and homosexuality being a "stubborn disability" are still present in the books.
As per the outlet, Mr Bond's assessment of Africans working in the gold and diamond markets in "Live and Let Die" (1954) has been changed to "pretty law-abiding chaps I should have thought" from "pretty law-abiding chaps I should have thought, except when they've drunk too much".
