The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Politically Correct Version

[Zet]

Is "slave" that much of a step up in terminology anyway?

I would say it's a step down.

 

[Legobricks]

This is likely going to cause more of a scene than the combined personal offenses taken at the words being left in.

Amusing.

 

[TRIFORCE89]

I would say it's a step down.

That was my point, yes. Thank you.

 

[LadySurreal]

What a good way to insult a dead author.

 

[Åzurε]

Zet and Triforce made a point. Using "slave" as a term used to describe black people makes everything worse. At least it's common knowledge that The N Word did not mean the exactly same thing back then. I don't like this. Way to miss the point, big wigs.

 

[groteske]

Sure they do. The copyright on Huck Finn expired some time ago, it's public domain. Same with Homer. Mark Twain and Homer are both dead and their works are free for anyone to edit, modify, read, or use however they wish. And that's the way it should be.

Now whether these people should be trying to make a profit off of issues of race is another story. It's outright offensive that they'd do this.

That was a conditional: change AND publish. I'm aware of public domain laws

I agree that scientific and mathematical theories and formulae should be in public domain, but leeching off another's creativity? Nah.

 

[Capris]

I'm not for censorship but anybody flipping a tit over this needs to chill out, they're taking the word ****** out and replacing it with another word that is historically relevant.

Edit: Lol, how ironic that it's censored here..

 

[Black Ice]

Zet and Triforce made a point. Using "slave" as a term used to describe black people makes everything worse. At least it's common knowledge that The N Word did not mean the exactly same thing back then. I don't like this. Way to miss the point, big wigs.

I could pull an argument out my butt about this point, but it's late and I don't want to have to explain everything. More or less...you shouldn't be worrying about the usage of the word "slave" to refer to blacks in this book.

I think the new "edition" is stupid. Takes away the meaning the author had intended. But whatever. If this is what gets schools to take the book off their retarded ban list, fine.

Next, people are going to be complaining about their kids calling every black person a slave. And then they'll have to change it again.

 

[FoggyDoggy]

I am highly against the revision.
It's only a matter of time before other books start seeing some modification as well.

[off-topic] I'm related to Mark Twain, as that's not his real name, his name's Samuel Clemens, I believe he was my great grandfathers brother [/off-topic]

 

[Palkia]

I don't see how some books aimed at teenagers can have strong language and old classics have to be censored so that 10 year olds who don't even like to read get a book forced into their mouth when it's guided reading time at there primary school. Ugh.

I'm against.

 

[Livewire]

I'm not for censorship but anybody flipping a tit over this needs to chill out, they're taking the word ****** out and replacing it with another word that is historically relevant.

Edit: Lol, how ironic that it's censored here..

So they can remove one historically relevant word with a negative connotation, and replace it with another one? Even that makes no sense, given the reasoning for the change in the first place

 

[Kon~]

This is just silly. Removing the n-word would completely change the points of the book.

Next thing they'll remove it from To Kill A Mockingbird. >.>

 

[Shanghai Alice]

Oh great! Now we can erase all the racism and unhappiness from this country!

I mean, really. The South is bad enough as it is, what with all those-

Okay, no. I can't do this.

It's just a word, and the media has gone too far on this one. This is sickening. We need to stop finding idiotic ways to apologize for one hundred and fifty years ago.

 

[Anthraxinsoup]

That song sums it up, it's from a non-racist band, but as he said "I didn't do it".

 

[Livewire]

Oh great! Now we can erase all the racism and unhappiness from this country!

I mean, really. The South is bad enough as it is, what with all those-

Okay, no. I can't do this.

It's just a word, and the media has gone too far on this one. This is sickening. We need to stop finding idiotic ways to apologize for one hundred and fifty years ago.

But it's not just a word. You're forgetting the symbolism and power of it's meaning. It is representative of all the struggles and fighting that African Americans have endured over the centuries at the hand of a racist country that hated them.

 

[ShinyMeowth]

I've never been a fan of forced political-correctness. Butchering fiction is like butchering music. Just like a cover of a piece of music for a different instrument than the one it was composed for kills the sound, an edit of a book to restrict an important part of the writer's ideology kills the emotion. Plus, since the writer was not racist, his use of that word was definitely not racist either. There are no dirty words, there are dirty people. And any censoring done is terribly hypocritical.

 

[Rainy Day]

You know, the replacement is honestly worse than the original...

But it's not just a word. You're forgetting the symbolism and power of it's meaning. It is representative of all the struggles and fighting that African Americans have endured over the centuries at the hand of a racist country that hated them.

Slavery carries the same connotation, does it not?

This is ridiculously stupid.

 

[.Fenris]

Best put by the stupidest person in recent history, and I had the honor to be in his Xbox live match when he declared it.

"Oh, I'm a racist?! *N Word N Word N Word N Word N Word N Word N Word N Word*!! You feel offended yet?!"

No, let's get the stupid brats to call black people "Slaves" sounds better riiiiiight?

 

[Dawn]

The fact that companies apparently think people want this crud and that they think they can make a profit off a public domain work where people can get the better version free appalls me.

Then again, the fact that racism is still a sensitive issue in this day and age appalls me. Ugh. It would not surprise me if it was /still/ a sensitive issue even after every single person originally involved has passed on at this point.

But it's not just a word. You're forgetting the symbolism and power of it's meaning. It is representative of all the struggles and fighting that African Americans have endured over the centuries at the hand of a racist country that hated them.

Anyone who honestly feels that way about that word needs to /get help/. And by help, I mean /therapy/. What they do not need to do is push this ridiculous nonsense any further. Issues are to be remembered eternally, but should /not/ be taken to heart eternally. We call that trauma.

 

[Livewire]

Anyone who honestly feels that way about that word needs to /get help/. And by help, I mean /therapy/. What they do not need to do is push this ridiculous nonsense any further. Issues are to be remembered eternally, but should /not/ be taken to heart eternally. We call that trauma.

Or, you could attempt to /understand/ the historical significance of that word, and what it means. I doubt anybodies ever called you a filthy word like that. I doubt the KKK ever put bricks through your window and flaming crosses in your front yard. I doubt a relative of yours was Lynched. I doubt you were hosed down with fire hoses and were attacked by police dogs. I doubt that you were denied a job, or a chance to get an education because of the color of your skin. So, don't talk like you know what you're talking about, because you obviously don't.

Yeah it definitely makes perfect sense actually. Slavery is a much more socially acceptable and historically accurate replacement for ******. The word ****** is censored here and you haven't objected to it, and the reasoning behind that is because there are little kids here, and the same goes for Huckleberry Finn. It's a book commonly found in grade school curriculum.

In the end nothing is changed and people are complaining because they can, you don't actually care that Mark Twain's rights are being "abused", even though they aren't as twocows demonstrated, you just want to sound like the voice of reason. Which you don't. You sound like a sheep.

I'm not really sure where you're coming from (or what the point of your rant was) but nowhere did I say or object to anything. The N word is censored for a reason, no ****. It's vile. However, it needs to remain in Huck Finn because of that very reason. An expose of Antebellum America, which is what the book is, wouldn't be complete, or even relevant unless it features language and culture from that time period (In case you missed it, it's written in a southern dialect also.) So before you run your mouth, please attempt to know what your talking about. If you're going to insult me, at least do it right.