Rewriting history is absolutely some Stalinist bullshit. Throughout my life, despite all the discussions I've seen about "banning" books from public schools or libraries, no one ever suggested editing them. It was universally understood that whether you like them or not the author's words are what they are and it's not appropriate for someone else to surreptitiously rewrite them.

How did we go from at least understanding that to this sort of 1984 bullshit? And in the span of a couple of years. The left has turned into a fucking cartoon villain and their NPCs are cheering them on.