[tnias23]

My knee jerk reaction to the title was a strong feeling that racist, sexist, and ageist tropes absolutely should be sanitized out of fairy tails. But this article discusses a different kind of sanitizing, and i feel more comfortable with its premise.

[zer00eyz]

Should we sanitize history of the nazis? How about Rome?

Be less precious. The world is a brutal place and the lessons of that should NEVER be forgotten.

[petesergeant]

I’m unclear how teaching someone about an unpleasant historical event is perpetuating “racist, sexist, and ageist tropes”?

[whimsicalism]

i don’t think this is a fair comparison to sanitizing racism.

it would be more like if we taught the story of the Nazis from the perspective of Nazism as wrongfully defeated. we certainly do sanitize narratives of history so the victors are the good guys

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

> My knee jerk reaction to the title was a strong feeling that racist, sexist, and ageist tropes absolutely should be

How can we ever have our utopia, if there are hints in centuries-old stories that people were once racist or "ageist"? Why can Winston not stuff all these fairy tales down the memory hole?