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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
I agree.
It doesn't change how anyone would interpret the message of her book. So I wouldn't see it as book suppression, even if done by heirs.
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I will add that almost certainly there have been cases where a publisher and author approved a change to a work not because they really approved of the change, but rather because they feared a negative consequence.
In this particular case, I suspect that both were at play, as they were in the Seuss withdrawal. They both feared a consequence, and they personally approved the change. And I would also not call it suppression as you have, I would call it censorship, or to be more exact, self-censorship, which is still censorship. Anyway, it's semantics, but words, as we have seen, are important
