From the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal web comic:
It does seem somehow familiar.
Oh, and by the way, the PC-droids are neutering one of the actually good classics:
Upcoming NewSouth ‘Huck Finn’ Eliminates the ‘N’ Word
Twain himself defined a “classic” as “a book which people praise and don’t read.” Rather than see Twain’s most important work succumb to that fate, Twain scholar Alan Gribben and NewSouth Books plan to release a version of Huckleberry Finn, in a single volume with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, that does away with the “n” word (as well as the “in” word, “Injun”) by replacing it with the word “slave.”
“This is not an effort to render Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn colorblind,” said Gribben, speaking from his office at Auburn University at Montgomery, where he’s spent most of the past 20 years heading the English department. “Race matters in these books. It’s a matter of how you express that in the 21st century.”
Goddamnitsomuch.
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If we HAVE to ban a book, how about The Great Gatsby ?
I feel personally they should leave the books as how they were written.like
it or not…they are technically called “banned books” but our libraries here still have special occasions of promotions of reading “banned books”.
Well, I’m pretty sure that Sam Clemens was glad he died in 1910 if he could have seen this shit coming down the line a century later…
The end result of this is that kids now will think everyone in the past thinks the way the kids are told to think. There will be no intellectual history.
> kids now will think everyone in the past thinks the way the kids are told to think
We have always been at war with East Asia.
Great Stalin quote:
“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. “
Even better Stalin quote:
“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?”