Huck Finn 2011

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[ph4ever]

Okay - that's funny.

[JollyMon66]

That's a modern classic

[surfpirate]

Brilliant. Perfect.

[SchoolGirlHeart]

It's funny, yep, but after a few second's thought, it's really sad.....

[ph4ever]

It's funny, yep, but after a few second's thought, it's really sad.....

I see your point, however I feel it is good commentary on the re-write of Huckleberry Finn to make it more "politically correct". I think that is the real travesty.

[SchoolGirlHeart]

It's funny, yep, but after a few second's thought, it's really sad.....

I see your point, however I feel it is good commentary on the re-write of Huckleberry Finn to make it more "politically correct". I think that is the real travesty.

Yup, it is indeed good commentary. That's what I meant by it was sad. We've come so far in race and gender relations since Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn, but in some ways we've almost come too far.

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I think the newly edited version of Huck Finn is a prime example of political correctness gone awry. I recently saw a piece by comedian Louis CK where he reasoned that instead of saying "nigger", referring to it as the "n word" just gives an already negative word even more negative power. I'm not saying everyone should go around yelling it at the top of their lungs or anything but I do agree with his thoughts on the subject. The Louis CK is piece is definitely NSFW but can very easily be found on YouTube if anyone cares to listen to what he has to say about it. It's pretty thought provoking stuff, at least it was for me.

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Tea Party Wants Slavery Removed From Student Textbooks

By Kirsten West Savali



When politically correct pundits and journalists defended the censorship of Mark Twain's novel 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' I watched in disappointed disbelief. At that moment, I predicted propaganda to entirely whitewash this country's history.

I didn't realize it would be only a matter of days.

After GOP members felt inspired to read the clean version of the Constitution on the House floor last week, conveniently ignoring such seismic events as slavery and prohibition, the theatrical buffoonery gave their tea-drinking stepchildren in Tennessee a brilliant idea:

Why not erase any and all mention of slavery and genocide from United States textbooks all together?

Envision it, America!

Textbooks scrubbed free of slaves' blood and government-sanctioned murder, ensuring that history books are palatable for generations of bright-eyed schoolchildren for generations to come.

After a news conference on Wednesday, about two dozen members of the Tea Party of Tennessee presented lawmakers with a list of "priorities and "demands" for the 2011 legislative session. According to the Party, it would "besmirch the image of the Founding Fathers" to be honest about this nation's history.

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