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To: Verginius Rufus
It's easier to just entirely ban Huckleberry Finn than re-write it.
27 posted on 04/16/2023 3:57:58 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone els)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
It's easier to just entirely ban Huckleberry Finn than re-write it.

But think of how a rewritten version can depict Southern whites as ignorant, bigoted drunks, while showing the oppressed POCs as vastly their superiors in every way (except book learning maybe). In the original version, Huck thinks of running off to the Indian Territory. In the revised version he does so to become a berdache (Indian male who took on a woman's role). After all, he does indulge in cross-dressing in the original novel so that shows his inclinations.

50 posted on 04/17/2023 6:25:02 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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