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The N-word, which author Ian Fleming used to refer to black people when he was writing during the 1950s and 1960s, has been removed from the revised texts. The revised version will now reportedly read: ‘Bond could sense the electric tension in the room.’ In the 1954 original it says: ‘Bond could hear the audience panting and grunting like pigs at the trough.’ In the new version of Bond novel Live And Let Die, a scene in which Bond visits a New York club is altered to remove reference to a striptease.
It comes as children’s books by Roald Dahl have been stripped of potentially offensive language with the Oompa Loompas – the workers at Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory – being made gender neutral. The publishers of the books by Bond creator Ian Fleming commissioned a review by ‘sensitivity readers’ to modernise them, according to the Sunday Telegraph. James Bond novels including Casino Royale and Octopussy have been edited to suit modern sensibilities with a raft of racist and sexist terms removed ahead of the 70th anniversary of 007 this year.
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