Comment Re:Twain chose that word for a reason (Score 1) 185
Irony outed. Didn't know that you could post the word nigger on slashdot.
and thanks for the google books search. righteous.
But...
When you intentionally mar a national treasure due to current political correctness:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/01/06/1555251/the-continued-censorship-of-huckleberry-finn/ - where they searched and replaced "ni99a" with "slave" from Huckleberry Finn...
Well that's just arrogant (demonstrates a belief in the superiority of current social mores over historical realities) spineless (so our genteel sexting children don't have to face the fact that some Americans enslaved and legislated the inferiority of a whole race) and impoverishing (robs people of the opportunity for a real authentic discussion of the troubled history of race in this country).
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