So, anyway, there's this genius entrepreneur and he defeats a trade union by abducting small people from Africa and making them his candy themed slaves. They like it. A poor kid wins the lottery and inherits the factory and makes the best candy.
"At least it isn't another Anti-Semitic screed like James and the Giant Question"
Kinda confused about Roald Dahl, what did he do to get cancelled?
Well yeah, but I want to know the history. It reads like he said some weird stuff about Jews after Israel's invasion of Lebanon, but I didnt know what else he said
Charlie and the chocolate factory way kinda edited down because the racism in it was pretty bad. The oompa loompas weren't initially orange.
Oh.
So I looked this up out of morbid curiosity, and found what everyone already kind of knew after reading that:
Dahl initially wrote them as African pygmies who were brought as slaves to work in Willy Wonka's factory.
"let me guess, the witches get really big."
"No! They make you small! You become a teeny tiny mouse and the witches step on you with their big toeless witch feet!"
