PC Police Mutilating Our Slave Owning Heritage

[Gabriel Reproba]

PC Police Mutilating Our Slave Owning Heritage

It was announced today that the new edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn will NOT contain the words "nigger" or "injun." Excuse me? This is a book that documents our slave-owning heritage and the LIEberals want to deny that heritage! I guess they will all say that this, like the Constitution, is a "living document?" Poppycock!

[InvisiblePinkUnicorn]

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Actually, I agree with you. This is ridiculous.

[Ravel Puzzlewell]

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I agree with this too. Part of what makes old literature worth reading is to see the historical context something is presented in and then to critically evaluate the events told in the story. From there, we can make a value judgment and decide that it would be immoral to act as people did in the past. Once you divorce these works from that historical context (for example, by removing words and events we consider wrong nowadays), it actually makes the process of rejecting the institution presented in the text more difficult because it is making it less distasteful.

In short, any censorship is doubleplus ungood.

[Gabriel Reproba]

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Actually, I agree with you. This is ridiculous.

I agree with this too.

See!?!? Even God-hating atheists agree that when someone says a black is a "ni**er" we shouldn't worry about it!

[Lost Sheep McUinnean]

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This is almost as bad as modernising/regionalising Shakespeare:


Original:
Wherefore art thou Romeo?


Modern Vernacular Lowland Scots
Och, how ra flying freuchie did you huv tae be Romeo ya b*wbag ye.

Sorry, doesn't work. A nigger was a nigger back then and a coon was a coon and a wog was a wog. It's historical. YOu can't suddenly just rewrite books to make unfaithful wives in ancient Rome escape stoning on the grounds of equal rights either. Utter nonsense. Why not just rewreitw the Bible?

Oh, yeah, the liberals did that already...duh.

[Professor Tyeisha X]

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See!?!? Even God-hating atheists agree that when someone says a black is a "ni**er" we shouldn't worry about it!

Sorry, but this God-hating atheist thinks that this revision is long overdue! Mark Twain was a despicable racist man who glorified slavery in the Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn books. It is simply inappropriate to teach children a book that has horrible racial slurs in it, whatever the context.

Personally, I would've gone further. Changing Ni**er to "Slave" is also demeaning. No, I would've revised the book so it changes to "African-American" and I would've removed the whole slavery aspect, since it makes African-Americans look like weak, cowardly, slothful people. I would've made Jim a very successful entrepeneur in the African-American business community. In fact, I would make him the hero of the novel and make Huckleberry Finn be his personal assistant.

Lastly, I would totally rewrite Jim's speech. It stereotypes African-Americans as illiterate, uneducated buffoons who speak only in ebonics:

"I doan’ hanker for no mo’ un um, Huck. Dese is all I kin stan’."

would become

"I certainly do not desire for any more of them, Huck. This is all I can currently tolerate."

See how much better that is?

[BelieverInGod]

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He helped the slave escape, how exactly was he glorifying slavery?

You know, it's people like you that are preparing the way for the Chinese when they take over the US. And what exactly do you think 3 million sexually frustrated chinks are going to do with you. With their "can't have more than one child" and "girls are worthless" attitude, there's going to be men who haven't seen a woman before.

[Didymus Much]

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Personally, I would've gone further. Changing Ni**er to "Slave" is also demeaning. No, I would've revised the book so it changes to "African-American" and I would've removed the whole slavery aspect, since it makes African-Americans look like weak, cowardly, slothful people. I would've made Jim a very successful entrepeneur in the African-American business community. In fact, I would make him the hero of the novel and make Huckleberry Finn be his personal assistant.

Lastly, I would totally rewrite Jim's speech. It stereotypes African-Americans as illiterate, uneducated buffoons who speak only in ebonics:

"I doan’ hanker for no mo’ un um, Huck. Dese is all I kin stan’."

would become

"I certainly do not desire for any more of them, Huck. This is all I can currently tolerate."

See how much better that is?

Is there anything you don't want to castrate?

[BelieverInGod]

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Is there anything you don't want to castrate?

Gay men, they'll be kept for sperm production when her kind take over.

[James Hutchins]

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Is the title of the book going to be changed to "The New Adventures of an Unfairly Impoverised Orphan'?

I hope they also clean up the writing in all that Shakesphere stuff, you can barely read it.

[Daisy Mae Johnson]

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The next thing you know they will have us saying "Innie meanie minie moe. Catch an African American Male by the toe."

[BelieverInGod]

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The next thing you know they will have us saying "Innie meanie minie moe. Catch an African American Male by the toe."

They already changed that to "catch a "tiger" by the toe". Doesn't make sense anymore now does it.

Unfortunately for this stewardess even changing the word wasn't good enough

Give the activists an inch they'll take a mile. They need to be put back in their place!

[Didymus Much]

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From "The New Adventures of Queen Victoria" by Pab Sungenis

[Hank]

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They might as well take the Bible and burn it.

Our proud heritage is all we have left since the faggits won the war (you know which war im talking about) and look what Washington is doing.

This is what happens when a country turns its back on God.

[Bobby-Joe]

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Sorry, but this God-hating atheist thinks that this revision is long overdue! Mark Twain was a despicable racist man who glorified slavery in the Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn books. It is simply inappropriate to teach children a book that has horrible racial slurs in it, whatever the context.

As much as I loath to agree with Tyeisha X on anything she is right. Huck Finn is full of racists slurs that as a good and TRUE Christian disgust me. There is no room for hate for even Hammites in Christianity. It is up to God to judge and punish people like He did with the father raping Hammites. We need to be less judgmental of people.