<p>I'm against this.</p>
<p>What do you guys think about the new edition?</p>
<p>It’s lame. There’s lots of the n-word, but first of all you can’t tamper with a classic just because you don’t like its wording. And if you think it’s racist to have that much of the n-word, consider this;
-you can take out the word, ban it from modern conversational usage, do whatever you want with it, but you won’t ever solve racism. Especially when african americans use the word freely.
-the frequent usage of the word wasn’t for no reason. It was to make a statement about the racism in American society during the time in which Twain lived.</p>
<p>Mark Twain is not racist. People are too obsessed with being politically correct. Whatever happened to historical context?</p>
<p>Removing it defeats the purpose of the novel and actually, in my opinion, makes it more controversial.</p>
<p>If you remove the word, it’s like saying that it never happened. But the thing is it did.</p>
<p>You shouldn’t forget the past or else you’re doomed to repeat it.</p>
<p>EDIT: Even Disney used the N word in “The Color of Friendship” to prove a point.</p>
<p>This just doesn’t make sense to me.</p>
<p>Will Injun Joe become Native American Joe?</p>
<p>Did anyone else hear of this from Colbert?</p>
<p>Using the wrong ■■■■■■■■ by rappers.</p>
<p>It’s ‘■■■■■’. Get it right. Get it right.
Other than that… it’s defeating the purpose of literature.</p>
<p>Can I say 1st amendment violation?</p>
<p>Clearly, slavery and racism existed. A new less offensive version of the novel would only suggest that life for Blacks was not bad back then. Dwarfing the importance of Jim and the African Americans will only give the false suggestion that Blacks scarcely existed back then and that they did not play a huge role in history. Then after reading this new less offensive version, the student may ask in class why Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King are such important people.</p>
<p>Looks like everyone is against this new version so far.</p>
<p>I certainly don’t agree with it, but just because this guy wants to publish a censored version doesn’t mean that it has to be (or will be) adopted around the nation/world.</p>