How to pronounce“bowdlerize”in English
And this is why, just as popular characters like the Cat in the Hat, Mickey Mouse, and Bugs Bunny naturalize their own minstrel origins,
so bowdlerized versions of classic books normalize the racism that revisionists aspire to expunge.
Attempts to erase racism from these books don't actually get rid of racist ideologies.
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Definitions of “bowdlerize”
To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.
“The bowdlerized version of the novel, while free of vulgarity, was also free of flavor.”
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