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It's like peeling an onion, soon the onion will be gone.
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Changing those words are not going to change the actual characters. And the characters are what matters as far as the words go. This whole effort is feeble and vain. We know that these are not acceptable words to use, but we also should know that they were acceptable to many people at one time.
I don't recall the usage in the books when I read them long ago, but I don't think that their usage flattered the people who used the words. If these are to be books honored by the history of American literature, then we need to place them in the context of their times, that's all. It's OK that somebody wants to release a PC version of Mark Twain's works as long as they have a legal right to do that and distinguish themselves in print from the originals. Abridged novels are acceptable, but we can identify them when they are published. But actually replacing all editions with a PC version would be a gross violation of the freedom of speech and maybe the legal rights of those who have a right to publish the works.
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The English BBC comments on this.
The beeb has something to say about this assault on American English literature.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12126700 From that link: Quote:
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The right of blacks to use a word denied to white people is simply the use of race to determine the exercise of a constitutional right, i.e. free speech. Weren't the civil rights laws supposed to eliminate this?
Check out this California case where a black "educator" tried to change his name to "Mr. Nigger." http://www.lawlink.com/research/CaseLevel3/69751 |
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Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are master classics, and Samuel Clemens was no racist.
Edit Twain to "protect" kids while ignoring the enormous sexual "message" contained in present entertainment. I don't get it.
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That is one of the best posts I've ever read!!! What the media shoves in our face is fine in their view, but not the classics. This crap has really gone too far.
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It doesn't matter what channel anymore. My teenagers will be watching something and they are humping, getting ready to hump, the language is bad, etc. etc. The girls say they are older now and they see the messages that are being sent to them, but I've told them if it's watched long enough, they will turn into the trash that they are seeing. It's beyond bad.
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