The Continued Censorship of Huckleberry Finn

eldavojohn writes "Over a hundred years after the death of its author, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn will be released in a censored format, removing two derogatory racial slurs: 'injun' and 'nigger.' The latter appears some 219 times in the original novel but both will be replaced by the word 'slave.' An Alabama publisher named NewSouth Books will be editing and censoring the book so that schools and parents might provide their children the ability to study the classic without fear of properly addressing the torturous history of racism and slavery in The United States of America. The Forbes Blog speculates that e-readers could provide us this service automatically. Salon admirably provides point versus counterpoint while the internet at large is in an uproar over this seemingly large acceptance of censorship as necessary even on books a hundred years old. The legendary Samuel Langhorne Clemens himself once wrote, 'the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter,' and now his own writing shall test the truth in that today."

Comments

Re:I have a much more ambitious vision

[Spy Handler]

Wow you were serious? I thought your original post was a satire.

I'll bet you're one of those people who would love to have a Thought Police, if or when the technology ever arrives that can read thoughts. Then all non-politically correct thoughts can be purged from everyone's minds!

(they're already extracting crude images from a dreaming person's brain so this is not as farfeteched as it sounds)

"progressives"

[ThisIsNotMyHandel]

"Progressives" being "progressives". Not sure why anyone is surprised by this censorship.