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Just saw a news blurb that Huck Finn will become politically correct. In an effort to make some readers more comfortable, certain words will be changed. For example "the n" word will now become slave and I suspect Injun Joe will be called Indigenous American Joe.
What do you think?
I DO find all racial, gender and ethnic "slurs" to be extremely offensive, however I am quite against changing classic literature to fit today's "correctness". One of the reasons these books are classics is because the offer such an open door into the characters lives. If we edit how they speak and how they view the world aren't we in really editing history?
Makes me wonder where this might lead. Time to stock up on blue pencils.
Debbie Russo
What do you think?
I DO find all racial, gender and ethnic "slurs" to be extremely offensive, however I am quite against changing classic literature to fit today's "correctness". One of the reasons these books are classics is because the offer such an open door into the characters lives. If we edit how they speak and how they view the world aren't we in really editing history?
Makes me wonder where this might lead. Time to stock up on blue pencils.
Debbie Russo