Censorship is ridiculous

Those that want to revise these books want to clean up history and pretend that Every thing was nicy nicy in the past. That is what the Soviet Union did. It dose seems that Matt Bors dose hold some truth. Political correctness is getting out of hand. Five or ten years down the road we well need to come up with new words so we won't offend any one. Mark Twain wrote the way he because that was the way people talked then. If the n word and injun are removed The whole concept of the novel will be changed. Future readers will wonder what all the hip about slavery was about.

Oh it is worse then that cartoon, but I can see it getting to that point. In fact this political correctness up here, that one of the pop rock music groups I used to listen to in the 80s, the stations are no longer allowed to play their music because they calle a certain lifestyle type a bad name. Now that song was written when that term was common, but now it is insulting or makes those guys feel bad. However, one can call Christians bad names and accuse them of horrible things, but no one censors them. A lot of these terms that the politically correct idiots are against are terms that showed how society regarded the actions of certain groups a long time ago. For instance, the n- word reflected a time when plantation owners were afraid if their wife had an affair with the colored butler, that she would pass off the child as his. And of course, calling a homosexual a sodomite, might make him reflected that it would be bad on him sleeping with a guy. The same with adulturess, they now call her a girlfriend and using that term makes her feel what she does is all right. I can give you other examples, but it would take too long.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was one of the top 100 contreversial books.. according to ALA's list in 1990 (and probably previous to that as well, I would guess). It was banned from a lot of libraries because of how "contreversial" it was/is. I made it a point to read every book from that list. "Animal Farm", "The Giver", etc were all listed as well - which makes me wonder also why they would feel the need to censor political fiction. It's weird to me that there is such ambiguity to the 1st amendement. I really think that censorship should be up to the parents - not the government. Honestly, some things should be censored to an effect, at least with children. I actually read Huckleberry Finn in high school though, and not the "revised" edition. Of course I went to a really ghetto, urban high school so it's not like "the N word" isn't something you hear six times a day in the hallway anyway. I can't see why that would be contreversial whatsoever, given the nature of the book. Unless they are sugar-coating it to have younger (much younger) generations read it, I can't see why that would be necessary whatsoever. Hmm.. That silly government of ours!

I'd say the comic about says it all! It's getting ridiculous. Who has the right to change a classic. It is part of our past - it was (sadly) true to the time it was written. WE must remember so we don't repeat it!

I understand the move to be politically correct, but this is, as you say, is ridiculous! I don't think I could support anything that would take away freedom of expression. Or individuality. If we continue on like this, we would all be 'vanilla'. Bland and without any creativity.

This is absurd! When I first heard of it I couldn't believe it and still don't. You can't change the words of something you didn't write. I find it very disturbing. People shouldn't read things that will offend them if they don't want to. People have the free will to choose not to read something and that would be the best solution. I liked the comic it is very accurate.