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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[soubrettic.livejournal.com]

But I don't have THAT strong of an opinion on the issue.

I do.

To my way of thinking, the word 'scholar' has absolutely NO business in that sentence at all.