Some people want ‘nigger’ taken out of Huck Finn. Notice what I did there? I actually said ‘nigger’. Not ‘the n word’. Because I’m not trying to erase the terrible history of my past.
I digress.
Famous writer Ernest Hemingway once hailed “Huck Finn” as being “the best book we’ve ever had.” We agree with him-even if he did drink too much.
But this classic novel has been banned from many schools and libraries ever since its first publication, originally because it portrayed the African American character Jim as being human and now because of the book’s use of the word “n-word” over two hundred times.
Publisher NewSouth Books is attempting to get the book back on library shelves and in classrooms by publishing a new version that removes the controversial word “n-word” and replaces it with the word “slave.”
Critics are calling this “censorship” and “whitewashing of history.” We call it “not far enough.”
What do these hipsters, selling us irony and uber-whitewashing, want to do? They want to replace every instance of the word ‘nigger’ with the word ‘robot’. They want to erase any trace of humanity that Jim may have had.
What do you think? Ironically idiotic? Or a piece of revisionist literary genius?
