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[Jeff Wilson]

On 1/18/2011 3:14 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>
> From: "Lee Berman" <severiansola at hotmail.com>
>>
>>> Gwern Branwen: >> Conrad's _Heart of Darkness_ I love the book. I
>>> hate the racism. And I think
>>> you can have it both ways in the realm of fiction and art. There's no
>>> contradiction there."
>>
>> Made me think of Huckleberry Finn and how there is a strong movement
>> to require schools to carry a
>> version which finds a less offensive term than "nigger" (the N-word)
>> which is repeated over 100 times
>> in the story. To me that move would suck the life out of the book. It
>> was a book about slavery written
>> in a time when slavery was a living memory for most people. Nothing
>> hammers that home more than free
>> and liberal use of the N-word which is exactly what Mark Twain intended.
>
> I read about this recently. My biggest issue with it was the publisher's
> intention of replacing "nigger" with "slave" which is hardly synonymous.
> Replacing it with "African American" would sound wrong even to the most
> tin-eared PC warrior, but what's wrong with "Black"?

Doesn't have a diminutive or familiar suffix.

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