Re: OT: Disappointment for Lord Valve

On Jan 5, 3:07 am, White Spirit <wspi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
One of his favourite words is being excised from Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn':

<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1344192/Huckleberry-Finn-remo...>

Better go and buy an unedited copy while it's still available.

Censorship is a stupid response, and it doesn't address the real
problem. The real problem is when teachers who often lack cultural
literacy skills just drop a book full of racist epithets into a class
with students of color without any sort of preparation or
contextualization, and then move on to the rest of a cannon produced
by and for white guys. It would help if students of color had a
chance to read something more than just a token side note by someone
whose experience more closely reflects their own. Huck Finn is a
masterpiece, and a brilliant denunciation of racism. But if "the
problem of racism" is *always* portrayed from a white person's
perspective, it will often be alienating to the people who are often
on the receiving end of racism. Start 'em off on W.E.B. DuBois and
it's a step in the right direction.
.

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