Ricky Gervais Comments On Woke Purge Of Literature By The “Fragile” And “Easily Offended”

Comedian Ricky Gervais offered his two cents on recent reports that classic literature is being completely rewritten for a modern day woke audience, by wondering if his own work would be changed after he is dead.

Tongue firmly in cheek and poking fun at himself, Gervais tweeted he is pondering whether the “fragile” and “easily offended” will remove the words ‘fat’ and ‘ugly’, and some more blue verbiage from his stand up shows once his is gone.

The easily offended and fragile came straight in to prove Gervais’ point:

Gervais followed up with another tweet:

As we have highlighted, this all stems from an ongoing move to have ‘sensitivity readers’ highlight and purge anything that is deemed ‘offensive’ from classic literature.

Both Roald Dahl and Ian Flemming’s estates appear to have okayed this.

Imagine taking everything non-woke out of James Bond. What will be left over?

In the most ironic of twists, George Orwell’s 1984 has also been touted as a candidate to be rewritten:

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