I read Huckleberry Finn to my young son back in the day. He was 5 or 6 I suppose. The first time I came to the word nigger I explained it to my son, and that today it is impolite to use that old-fashioned term. I told him we could use the original wording or a substitute like “slave” or “black”, but it was up to him. We used the term slave.
It is so crazy to ban a book because of an outdated word when the book is about the friendship between a black man and a white boy who is trying to help him escape from slavery.
“impolite to use that old-fashioned term”
If you will note ...
we seem to have changed the “polite” term on a steady basis for about 70 years .
I’m not even sure what it is now.
A little help ....?
I agree. Oh, and I realized that I neglected to put the link to the source of the quote, it was a discussion thread on Quora (that redaction was in the original post).