The politically correct crowd just got a great American novel banned

NY Post.com ^ | 12/15/15 | By David K. Li

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

The politically correct crowd just got a great American novel banned

By David K. Li

A suburban Philadelphia school expelled “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from its curriculum over the book’s overuse of the N-word.

The Friends’ Central School removed the Mark Twain classic from the 11th-grade American literature class last week after students said it made them feel uncomfortable, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

“We have all come to the conclusion that the community costs of reading this book in 11th grade outweigh the literary benefits,” principal Art Hall said in a letter to parents.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I read the book and thought there was way too many microaggressions in it, so I had no recourse but to immediately retreat to my safe spot and cower in a fetal position until I sufficiently recovered.

[stevem]

These schools need to sponsor some book burnings.

[kearnyirish2]

Let them delete this history; in a few years people will deny that slavery existed. Don’t want “Redskins” as a football team? In a few years we’ll just pretend the Europeans landed on an unpopulated continent.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"Friends Central School removed the Mark Twain classic from the 11th-grade American literature class last week after students said it made them feel uncomfortable"

I'm sure the special snowflakes have NEVER listened to rap music their entire life.

[Tupelo]

For most of my adult life, I have been taught and retaught, “Those that do not read history are doomed to repeat it”.

I can only wonder what the future holds for those that attempt to change history.

But wait, Victors have been doing that for thousands of years.

OK. Same old. Same old. Ground Hog day, again and again.

[Arm_Bears]

I thought it was the TEA Party and racist conservatives that were all about banning books.

At least that's what the Left tells us, ad nauseum.

[iowamark]

First, this is a private Quaker school. They can set their own curriculum. Second, there are many, many other classic works of American literature that they can read.

[Daffynition]

**Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.**

~ Mark Twain

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“I’m sure the special snowflakes have NEVER listened to rap music their entire life.”

Exactly.

[struggle]

I teach American Lit, and I tell my student that because of the message of the story, it would actually be wrong to not be honest about all the n-words in the story.

[Gen.Blather]

On the other hand, banning a book ensures they will read it. For most it will be the only book they read.

[moovova]

“First, they came for Huckleberry Finn, and I said nothing.”

“Then they came for the Holy Bible, and I said...”

[ThePatriotsFlag]

So go buy the book and give it to your kids for Christmas...screw the “ban.”

[CPOSharky]

...overuse of the N-word.

Too bad that doesn't apply in a whole bunch of other areas.

[Netz]

Classic literature will soon be replaced with the Koran.

“Infidel” book burning clubs will sprouting up all over Germany, ooops, I mean, all over the USA soon.

Allah be praised! Our book club burned 12,000 books this month, Allah be praised!

[jsanders2001]

> **Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.** ~ Mark Twain

good quote. I'll add it to my collection...: )

[onyx]

Yes, it's just awful and so insensitive that an American literary classic would make these precious students feel uncomfortable, so of course, they must be sheltered from reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Perhaps they can watch the movie instead?

[nathanbedford]

Here is a reply filed last May:

Twain was certainly an iconoclast and rebel his entire life.

He was a deserter from service in the Confederate militia in the Civil War and fled to the far West. Even his earliest writings reflect an ability to see the mirror image of life. I think Twain was as he suggests a pessimist. Certainly, personal tragedies such as the death of his child deepened his darkest perceptions.

If one looks at Huckleberry Finn which is a searing indictment of slavery, its brilliance lies partly in the fact that Twain works his magic by writing the mirror image of his intended result. For example, Huck Finn's decision that he will commit a mortal sin and go to hell by being a friend to "Nigger Jim" leaves the reader to reverse the logic and in doing so penetrate the veil of rationalization which had sustained slavery and Jim Crow.

Huckleberry Finn is perhaps the great American novel as Hemmingway said (I agree) because Twain makes the reader really part of the process of grappling with America's original sin but he gives the devil every advantage yet still succeeds in making all of us believers.

The irony of modern race baiters agitating to remove Huckleberry Finn from libraries because it contains the word "Nigger" is very sad.

[LostPassword]

Time to shut down my city's transit system

According to these people the community costs of reading this book riding the bus or train outweigh the benefits

[PIF]

some books need to sponsor some school burnings ...