USA Today reports that in a bid for more readers and classroom acceptance, a new edition of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is giving the Mark Twain classic a slight but significant makeover, Publishers Weekly reports. Gone is the N-word.An undated portrait of Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens. The word (which this newspaper does not print) appears 219 times. In its place, Twain scholar Alan Gribben of Auburn University is substituting "slave." He's also doing away with a slang term for Indians in the forthcoming edition from NewSouth Books.
"After a number of talks, I was sought out by local teachers, and to a person they said we would love to teach this novel, and Huckleberry Finn, but we feel we can't do it anymore," he told PW. "In the new classroom, it's really not acceptable."
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I’m vehemently against this kind of censorship foe a very specific reason. If we as a society allow this kind of absurdity to pass without serious examinations as to its dangers, then we open the door to other words that some fools, aka Liberals, want to target.
The day is coming very soon that words like “Christian” “bible” and even “Jesus” is gonna be offensive to enough stupid people in this country that they’ll try in the name of “sensitivity” and “fairness” to remove them from ever being spoken in public, let alone being able to buy in books containing them.
Trust me, its coming!
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