How to pronounce“bowdler”in English

which bowdlerized everything he had to say of a progressive political nature.

The term comes from Thomas Bowdler, who did this to Shakespeare 200 years ago and created "The Family Shakespeare," a Shakespeare for children that would not provide

is more risky to ban the racist books outright or to use only the bowdlerized editions.

them inappropriate material. So rather than bowdlerize, rather than edit these books, I think it's a less risky choice to teach them critically,

And for those who may not know the term, to "bowdlerize" is to clean up an offensive text.

This is not -- we're not getting it from the text, we are having to bowdlerize the text based on our own moral intuitions and based on a larger conversation about the nature

it immediately so the purpose of bleeping it out or showing it in that kind of bowdlerized way doesn't actually accomplish its purpose anyway I don't