That’s literally their backstory in the novel afair.

This is intentional.

The illustrations in the original book were very…um… politically incorrect.

I have read that the Oompa Loompas were originally just black people and even for the time the publisher thought that was a bit much.

Jesus, there are people that just need to shoehorn in some moralizing in every goddamn thread, isn’t there?

Thanks for that hot take.