Modern sensibilities

[gsh]

Saying they want to publish a version that won't be banned from some schools because of its language, two scholars are editing Mark Twain's classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to eliminate uses of the "N" word and replace it with "slave," Publishers Weekly writes.


But wouldn't that be a whitewashing of history?

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[gsh]

I was mostly making a "white washing" joke, although that was actually Tom Sawyer, not Huck Finn.