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How do you feel about the removing of the "n" word in "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"?

They're replacing it with the word slave.

Update:

I believe it's a part of History and as a part of History it shouldn't be "white washed" over like it never happened. Instead, it should be used as a tool to educate.

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    I think that messing with ANY literature is stupid, short sighted and nothing but fear-mongering...

  • 1 decade ago

    Really STUPID move ! Your not going to change history by changing a word ! The "N" word ( I'd put the word but it would be deleted or my answer would be deleted) has just in the last few years become a bad word. For decades it was a common word used by all, YES even the blank people used the word to describe themselves. All of a sudden it became a bad word...to be use by blacks is OK but not by whites !!!!

    What would happen if the PC police changed the word GOD to George in the bible because the word GOD pi$$es off some people ?

    Some PC cops could go as far as changing the constitutions wording, after all where it says "We The People" is incorrect, it should be "We The White People" .... No black, yellow or brown people were involved in the constitution being written !

    The "N" word was a commonly used and excepted word in history, History can not be changed by deleting a single word ! Leave history alone !

  • Rain
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    It's removing a piece of important history. It shows how it is was, and that is important to remember.

    If they keep on altering history like that there will be people in the future that will claim that slavery was not a problem, African Americans were not treated differently and so on.

    The censor of how Jews were portrayed and treated before WW2 has already created a picture in people's minds today of how Hitler and the Nazis created antisemitism. Picture what censoring the reality of the treatment of slaves and former slaves will do to American history. I know, it's "just" the n-word but what's next?

  • 1 decade ago

    I think it is pertinent to how the book was written and that using slave in that context is more offencive.

    It implies that slavery is less offencive than derogatory talk and that African Americans and those of European descent are unable to admit to the past.

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  • willem
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Modesty, shyness, etc., are meant to be the actual adorns of a classy female of sturdy etiquette and dignity. The "F" be conscious actual deprives her of those beautiful adorns intrinsic to her "predicted-to-be-dignified" character.

  • 1 decade ago

    Ridiculous. It should be read how it was originally published. In other novels they use racial slurs against other groups of people and those words aren't removed.

  • !?!
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I agree with you.. it can be a great teachable moment, not only about the past, but about present attitudes as well. Oversensitivity can PROMOTE stereotypes and racism.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    it should not be done. look at the time it was written. i hate pc people.

  • 1 decade ago

    never read it.

    im bi racial and still don't care..

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