Posted on 12/15/2015 3:55:46 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
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Set it to a rap background and it would be just fine. Since that genre overuses the N-Word.
Agree completely.
One, Huck Finn is THE American classic, and is perhaps the greatest anti-racism novel ever written.
Two (good news to the weak beer crowd like Iowa Mark), this simply alerts us that "there are many, many other classic works of American Literature" that will likewise be banned.
I may have been subconsciously intending that reference.
Wait...I found this caveat:
Things MT didn’t really say:
**Censorship is telling a man he can*t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.**
He DID say:**When a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn*t anger me.**
http://mentalfloss.com/article/29372/10-things-mark-twain-didnt-really-say
And this which befuddles:
“I wrote ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huck Finn’ for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.”
~Mark Twain
http://www.booksatoz.com/censorship/quote.htm
A suburban Philadelphia school expelled “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from its curriculum over the book’s overuse of the N-word.
How history repeats
They’re worrying too much about their precious snowflakes’ reactions. I recently read “Tom Sawyer” to my eight-year-olds (as a sort of gateway drug for Mark Twain!) and of course they loved it. The “n” word is all over that one too. It gave us a great jumping-off point to discuss slavery, and discrimination in general, and how hurtful words can be (not only that infamous one but others) so we should be very careful what we say. Sam Clemens just packed SO MUCH into each book. Requires multiple readings to unpack it all!
“I wrote ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huck Finn’ for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.â€
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That sounds like the snarkiest, most subtle form of sarcasm to me. Love me some Twain! ;)
The swine have rejected Samuel Clemens’s pearls. The rest of us will continue to enjoy his works.
Agree.
However, Uncle Tom’s Cabin is number one in my “book.”
Another PC-incorrect book (Uncle Tom is a good guy) with PC-incorrect language.
I never read that believe or not! I’ll check it out.
Worth the read.
Picked up an original first edition at an antique store that had books laying around for ambiance.
They had no idea about the book or its value. I gave them much more than the $5 price they listed for it.
Anyway, Uncle Tom (the character) is the most forgiving, Christ-like person in the novel. A true Christian that lived in accordance with His word even though he is abused and tormented.
I am amazed that being called an “Uncle Tom” is perceived as an insult by Blacks.
“One, Huck Finn is THE American classic, and is perhaps the greatest anti-racism novel ever written.”
But what about Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Great anti-slavery/anti-racist novel: “According to legend, Abraham Lincoln greeted Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862 by saying “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.” Whether the story is true or not, the sentiment underscores the public connection between Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Civil War.”
https://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/utc/impact.shtml
Anyway, have a great day.
Cheers!
Yes I heard that before as well, that it’s the exact opposite of an insult but a compliment, but I guess that all changed when the libs started taking over education.
I do remember reading once Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe and said “So this is the little lady responsible for all the trouble” or something like that.
Yes. . .ahem. . .my next post after the post you replied to, post 75, makes mention of that. . .
;-)
Yes but a woman wrote that.
Can’t be as good.
Really just another selfish little trouble-maker, like Helen, or Cleopatra.
Kidding! Just kidding!!
lol
Hah. . .you better be ducking. . .hah
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