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Corbin Dallas
What the heck is happening down there anyway? Does the word "Honky" b ecome illegal too?
posted by
WileyJohn
on January 6, 2011 at 9:21 PM
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I tell you this has shades to me of simple --- what??? --- Its a hot topic right now; it just ain't fittin' (as so said by Mammy in Gone with the wind). Oh, cannot wait to see the list of what's next on the re-editing of history...hmmm wonder if the Bible will once again be mis-translated? Yes we enter into yet another era of ignorance, so I feel. Elyse
posted by
elysianfields
on January 6, 2011 at 8:24 PM
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Corbin Dallas,
"All 219 times"? I had no clue of the number. How would you like to be tasked with the job of counting? What if you missed one?
posted by
Glennb
on January 6, 2011 at 6:08 PM
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Corbin Dallas,
This is getting very frightening to me. I am agreeing with you on this. Purging the word "nigger" from the tongue of white folk would normally require a pair of knuckles. If you think it you should say it and mutually deal with the consequences. Saying the word "nigger" should not be a death sentence. A lot of people made fame and fortune on the word and nobody got hurt. When I first read the notion of this insanity, I wondered if these people had actually read the work? Scrubbing and sanitizing literature is probably the last barrier to our collective demise.
posted by
Glennb
on January 6, 2011 at 1:18 PM
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Corbin
Need I tell you that I agree completely? Hold on - maybe not
completely...I don't want the guy with his cigar the size of Cincinnati in the
non-smoking section, where
I am sitting these days! Let him stay in the section for smokers where he
belongs...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 6, 2011 at 4:01 AM
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The more I read the more angry I get.........
Under liberalism, watering down Twain's masterpiece into lukewarm mush may be the only way to get it back into schools.........
Published in the U.S. in 1885, "Huck Finn" is the fourth most banned book in schools, according to "Banned in the U.S.A." by Herbert N. Foerstal, a retired college librarian who has written several books on First Amendment issues.
Despite failing to conform to contemporary thought codes, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a key part of our culture. Here's what Ernest Hemingway had to say about it:
"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called 'Huckleberry Finn.' … All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since."
Better our bleeding heart overlords should ban the book outright than twist it into something else. At least then we could memorize it, like the characters do in Fahrenheit 451.
But it's not enough for progressives to suppress our civilization; they want to erase it by replacing it.
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on January 6, 2011 at 3:02 AM
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