Go Huck yourself
Huckleberry Finn to be republished for kids without the word nigger so that it’s more age appropriate. A better idea would be to, oh I dunno, have them read it when it is age-appropriate?
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January 5th, 2011 at 10:31 am
Please edit your post to remove that offensive word. Also remove the pictures of scary guns from your site. And stop using the letter ‘l’ because it kinda looks like a penis.
January 5th, 2011 at 11:07 am
Wow that greatly reduces the text IMHO. One huge take-away from that book was while Huck and Jim were friends, Americans at that time still didn’t see them as 100% human.
Sugar- coating the past is a very bad move. Next thing they’ll tell us is that Hitler was a Right-wing capitolist.
Oh…
January 5th, 2011 at 11:10 am
You know what? I’ve read Huck Finn at least twice in various English classes, and the copies we were issued were all printed this way. It’s nothing new. (Not that I’m happy about it; I’m just aware that this has been going on for a while.)
January 5th, 2011 at 11:27 am
They also scrubbed the word ‘injun’ too…
January 5th, 2011 at 11:29 am
What?! Mozilla didn’t block this SayUncle post? I’m going to sue SayUncle, Firefox, Microsoft, Dell, my antivirus software, Starbucks for providing an internet connection, the city and state.
Oh right, wait, let me get my kid to look over my shoulder … NOW I’ll sue everybody!
For ViolentIndifference, the letter “Y” should be banned, because it clearly depicts vaginal penetration. The use of uppercase and lowercase “Y” is to be replaced with “V”.
Also, the use of uppercase “W” and uppercase “B” are offensive to small chested women. The use of “&” is offensive to large bottomed women. Please replace them with the nondiscriminatory “*”.
Oh, and don’t get me started on first amendment violations caused by using “+” .
January 5th, 2011 at 11:32 am
They alter great literary works while the same children listen to rap music..
January 5th, 2011 at 11:49 am
Well maybe they could just change it to “nigga” Because when it doesn’t have the “r” on the end, it is often used as an empowering term. So when he says “Nigga Jim” that just means he is his friend!
Seriously though, as a historian I think this is an abomination. I think Sam Clemmens is probably turning in his grave.
I wonder if fifty, sixty, or a hundred years down the road we’ll look at this as the second guilded age? But once we start buggering up our literature, doesn’t it feel like Orwell was right?
January 5th, 2011 at 12:20 pm
I read both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn when I was around 8 or 9 years old, and it didn’t offend me; it wouldn’t have the same effect. Quit castrating literary works just to make them more politically correct to a bunch of thin-skinned assholes.
January 5th, 2011 at 12:44 pm
HAH! 😀
January 5th, 2011 at 1:03 pm
Dammit. I just spit coffee all over my keyboard. Thanks ViolentIndifference!
January 5th, 2011 at 1:33 pm
Tim to stock up on books.
January 5th, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Niagga please. I’ll start to believe their racial sensitivity when I stop hearing that word coming from the car stereo systems of people of color and every frickin’ black comedian on HBO/Showtime.
January 5th, 2011 at 7:01 pm
I wonder what the Bowlderization Committee will do with the Flashman novels, or The Vagina Monologues, or The Bird Cage (play or movie, English or original French version), or all those WWII propaganda films about the Japanese and German opposition forces.
And let’s not even get started on how this is going to create a black market for the original first publication version! Look at what Lucas did to Star Wars (google “Han shot first!”) and Turner did colorizing almost everything except The Maltese Falcon….
January 5th, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Jim S., this is the *gelded* age.
They’ve done it to “Dambusters”, too, which is one of my favorite movies. Nigger, Guy Gibson’s black Lab, figures prominently in the movie. “Nigger” was the code word to report mission success. At least Nigger’s grave marker at RAF Scampton has his True Name on it.
January 5th, 2011 at 10:02 pm
this might do for Huck Finn sales what Tipper Gore did for music sales back in the 80s…
January 5th, 2011 at 10:50 pm
>this might do for Huck Finn sales what Tipper Gore did for music sales back in the 80s…
Yea, except for the fact that you can get the original text for free from Project Gutenberg.
January 6th, 2011 at 12:23 am
What Standard said. They also have most of H. Beam Piper’s stuff, too.
January 6th, 2011 at 12:25 am
Kasper, what would “It’s My Party and I’ll Cry If I Want To” have to do with sales in the 80’s? That was way back in 63.
January 6th, 2011 at 7:24 am
Fo shizzle my niggity-izzle.