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< Non-music ~ Furore over 'censored' edition of Huckleberry Finn |
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 12:09 am |
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Zero Tolerance Joined: Sun Jul 09, 2006 7:18 pmPosts: 6315Location: Landscape XX
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 12:56 am |
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Highly Intolerant Joined: Sat Dec 31, 2005 6:51 pmPosts: 3217Location: Near Glasgow, Scotland
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Totally disagree with it.
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Filius Luciferi
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 6:08 am |
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Highly Tolerant Joined: Fri May 14, 2010 9:41 pmPosts: 45Location: Bethesda, Maryland USA
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There's no such thing as the right to not be offended. This "sweep it under the rug" bullshit is ludicrous in the extreme. This will never be buried, no matter how much dirt they try to fling on it. It would seem that these people think that if they erase all traces, it will somehow magically go away.
What next, take all the "niggers" out of Faulkner?
If I believed in that sort of thing, Twain would be twirling with the violence of a tornado in his grave.
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 9:26 am |
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Highly Intolerant Joined: Thu Nov 11, 2004 7:36 pmPosts: 4470Location: Fighting crime
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Totally disagree with this.
Incidentally "given orders for the typesetter to be shot without giving him time to pray"
Read any of his correspondences and you'll see that the guy was full of awesome quotes.
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 11:49 am |
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Staff Joined: Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:43 pmPosts: 259
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Unbelievably ridiculous, as this kind of revisionism always is.
What disturbs me is not only that removing the word 'nigger' from an ultimately non-racist book will make racism go away but that some people think 'nigger' is cognate with 'slave' in every and all senses.
Doubleplusungood crimethink go memory hole.
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:56 am |
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Maximum Tolerance Joined: Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:44 amPosts: 2Location: Denver Colorado USA
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This type of non sense seems rampant in my country (usa) currently. Most of us are sick of it......that's why they keep trying to take out guns....they're afraid that one day we'll finally have had enough and decide to fix things ourselves. I'm actually fairly conservative but absolutely against censorship of any kind - as were the founders of america. Here you guys are talking about privatising medicine as well - good for you!
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