Poll: Mark Twain censored. New copies of Huckleberry Finn to replace usage of the 'n-word'
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So.... The US is just going to censor every book and pretty much play dumb when it comes to that word and pretty much say that it never existed?
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Well then, I'm glad the that US, especially Alabama (what with its rich history of pro-African American/White race relations) is being morally right now. Perhaps next we'll eliminate the Slave trade and say they wanted to come over. Or that the Native people just handed their land over out of the goodness of their hearts.
Oka, maybe thats stretching it abit, but the fact remains. you cant change works like this. Its just about people talked, its who the character was. What are you going to call him? Black Jim? you cant just blantantly censor this. Then you have to censor every other works that uses durogatory terms. I know alone in Stephen King's Blaze the word Spick (to describe an Armanian Woman) is used as a durogatory term. You gonna go back and remake Blaze? How about the other works of fiction that use terms like that? Its for either dramatic effect, or just how stuff was. I mean, its not like he just filled the book with the word. And ytou know we have to go back and change this is all the nonfiction history if we do this. Or will they hide behind the excuse "but.. this is fact. That was fiction."
Makes me want to face palm, but I already reached my Demotivational limit for one post.
http://www.dahmus.org/blogimg/fry-see-what-you-did-there.jpg
Well then, I'm glad the that US, especially Alabama (what with its rich history of pro-African American/White race relations) is being morally right now. Perhaps next we'll eliminate the Slave trade and say they wanted to come over. Or that the Native people just handed their land over out of the goodness of their hearts.
Oka, maybe thats stretching it abit, but the fact remains. you cant change works like this. Its just about people talked, its who the character was. What are you going to call him? Black Jim? you cant just blantantly censor this. Then you have to censor every other works that uses durogatory terms. I know alone in Stephen King's Blaze the word Spick (to describe an Armanian Woman) is used as a durogatory term. You gonna go back and remake Blaze? How about the other works of fiction that use terms like that? Its for either dramatic effect, or just how stuff was. I mean, its not like he just filled the book with the word. And ytou know we have to go back and change this is all the nonfiction history if we do this. Or will they hide behind the excuse "but.. this is fact. That was fiction."
Makes me want to face palm, but I already reached my Demotivational limit for one post.
I have. Maybe not the best parallel, but I agree.Canid117 said:
Right, because it's not like language is essential to the communication of ideas at all. Hey, let's all substitute "wand" with "wang" in Harry Potter! We'll know exactly what J.K. Rowling meant with passages such as:Pararaptor said:
The control of language is synonymous with the control of thought.
It's true. You shouldn't censor something that is in context.VanityGirl said:But that's how they talked back then.You can't change dialogue like that.
Wow. Fuck that. I mean, I saw this coming when I read it in highschool, but that doesn't make it any less ridiculous. Huck Finn has been around for decades, and the use of the word ****** in that book was a reflection of the time it was written, not a racial slur.
I'm just so sick and tired of the the political correctness and ass kissing in American society. Grow a fucking pair and get over it.
I'm just so sick and tired of the the political correctness and ass kissing in American society. Grow a fucking pair and get over it.
Pfft, too much Political Correctness there. While I might not have enjoyed this book, I understand that it was a classic. You can't change classics! No matter how different the culture might have been!