The ultimate reason is to replace the old Canon with a new Canon. Social Justice wants its preferred authors to be the new canon. It doesnt matter if you read them. It only matters that you can see that have replaced the old Canon with the New Canon so they can flex on you.
For a moment, I thought you said “old Conan” and “new Conan”
Which reminded me of how a year or two back, on spacebattles there was stuff being talked about a Conan The Cimmerian/Barbarian boardgame
Some lady who was part of the company who made it complaining about racism and sexism and shit and was getting attention
The thread was a bunch of pages long weirdly enough as people actually sort of sided with that lady. One lady even mentioned how she thought Berserk was RACIST because of the whole Kushan Invasion, all while admitting to hearing about Muslims before trying to invade Europe before the Crusades, as inspiration and not caring that later the Kushans were depicted as human as anybody else and that they were welcomed by the rest of humanity in attempts to survive in Falconia
The “Old Conan” by Robert E Howard and many older or before 2010s or 2013+ creators will probably be considered “racist” and “sexist”
But they will still like using the character and setting for their own stuff
They shat on HP Lovecraft, but used his stuff for another game before
If they’re gonna erase these books mentioned earlier
Then there maybe a chance in the future that they erase the works or Robert E Howard and HP Lovecraft
But people will know there was stuff the current stuff was originally based on
If they do this to other stuff, I can see people barely ever having known that Starfire wasn’t some obese, goth, midget goth