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Mark Twain removal of Nword from Huck Finn, Lukovich

 

What is so very very silly about the mostly universal complaints about  a revised edition of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn replacing the Nword is that not one of the complaints were allowed to use the Nword by their editors. 

I have yet to find anyone defending this new version of Mark Twain’s classic Huckleberry Finn with the N-word removed. So let me be the first in the world at something!

I read the book not long ago when I heard some African-American groups complaining. I found just cause for their complaints, not so much the N-word which was standard at the time, but that all the blacks in the book were portrayed as stupid, crooked and above all, insanely superstitious. Though I was and am now strongly against censoring the book though I did understand their point. Kinda like reading Winnie the Pooh to your kids saturated with 219 references to that "stupid honky" Christopher Robin.

We have a grammar problem here. Censorship is the removal of a piece of art by the government. For the most part schools, libraries, museums and public places. The printing of an alternative version of a piece of art which has no requirement to be used or replacing the original is not censorship. So until a that happens this is just another example of equating things that are not equatable.