Will they ban RAP music?
I like it,,,makes us White Folks seem nice.....(ST)
When Michelangelo finished painting in the Sistine Chapel, the pope had another paint clothes on the figures. They called him the tailor but Michelangelo was not happy. Most of that paint, I believe has been removed.
You will miss the some of the points Twain makes if you take out the offensive language. The language lets you understand the mindset of the period. In Huckleberry Finn the language shows that Huck is not doing the right thing out of some intellectual enlightenment but simply in the end because it is the right thing. You have to understand the characters as being products of their time to appreciate the profound morality of their actions. I think this political correctness would simply of confirmed Twain’s lowest opinions of humanity.
Old friend of ours who is a Mark Twin expert.
http://legacy.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/060518/cross.shtml
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erxHUArUbgI&feature=related
Fuzzy headed ninnymuggins....
It figures this guy would be a Barner.
RTR.
Clemens is flippin’ in his grave. We know a lot of things about him...among his attribute of having a very *salty* tongue.
Cool. Since it’s good enough for classic lit, it’s good enough for contemporary media.
Let’s remove racial slurs from every movie and audio recording, including musical media, released during the last thirty years.
I guess this will be the death of rap.
Yet another example of political correctness trying to make our children soft. There are much worse things in life than a few racial slurs in a books assigned in a classroom.
Books should be left the way the author intended.Don’t read them if you think you will be offended.
What’s next,the deletion of the word “gay” from all books?
The world has gone nuts!!!!!!
Teachers can’t just say this is how they talked then but it’s not acceptable now?
Mark Twain himself would be absolutely furious.
For those who know a something about American literature in general, and Twain in particular, this is such a travesty as to defy all credulity. It's the epitome of absurdity.
The publisher might as well not publish the books. They should be boycotted and their political correctness should be refudiated energetically.
Yes, it does. And makes this whole revision seem entirely unnecessary.
It’s not censorship when they do it.
Howzabout The Color Purple?
So what will they call these New Editions? And will they continue to say they were written by Mark Twain?
I’m just surprised to learn that anyone at Auburn University (even the one in Montgomery) can spell much less READ.