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They're "updating" Mark Twain
Jan. 4th, 2011 08:57 pmGacked from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
otterdance:
A new edition of Huckleberry Finn will substitute "Slave" for "N----r".
Supposedly this is being done to avoid censorship, or to "modernize" the text by omitting an offensive term. That it will gut one of the greatest passages ever written by an American doesn't seem to have crossed their minds:
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otterdance:A new edition of Huckleberry Finn will substitute "Slave" for "N----r".
Supposedly this is being done to avoid censorship, or to "modernize" the text by omitting an offensive term. That it will gut one of the greatest passages ever written by an American doesn't seem to have crossed their minds:
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