Making Twain less dangerous

[cyrano]

Apparently, a new edition of Huckleberry Finn is being released, without that uncomfortable N word, or the I word.

Unsurprisingly, there are already those who are yelling “Censorship!” as well as others with thesauruses yelling “Bowdlerization!” and “Comstockery!”

Or, as Will Shetterly puts it, Huckleberry Finn is about a white boy learning what lies under words like "nigger" and "injun". Take those words away, and you gut its profoundly antiracist meaning.

Comments

[orchidsofdesire.livejournal.com]

How do kids know the impact of such a dirty word without the book to lead the argument? Parents don't talk to them about it, MTV's Real World does. That's not where kids should be learning it.

Not arguing against you, I understand your points, I just hate censorship.