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ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy
No they don't...this is a book in the public domain.

This is a money grab aimed at white guilt and black racial profiteers

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ORIGINAL: Elisabella

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ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy
No they don't...this is a book in the public domain.

This is a money grab aimed at white guilt and black racial profiteers

even better...the original will still be printed then?

Hopefully their "money grab" fails and they're bankrupted.

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ORIGINAL: RapierFugue
Lightening the tone somewhat, lest we all get too bogged down in the rather depressing nature of this wanton act of vandalism, I was listening a while back to an interview with Mel Brooks concerning one of my favourite films; “Blazing Saddles”. Mel was explaining the various N-word references, and said the following (from memory): “To start with, I had a few of those references and gags in it. I felt uncomfortable with their use, because hey, I’m not black. I could “own” all the Jewish gags and references because, believe it or not, I’m Jewish, so I'm capable of saying what is or isn't offensive to a reasonably well-adjusted Jew.

But as I’m not also black, I didn’t feel comfortable with passing those gags. So I got Richard Pryor in to re-write the script. We started with about half a dozen n****r references and gags from my script and he shocked me by, instead of removing any, adding in about another 50, including one of the other black characters calling Bart “a shifty n****r”, and expanding and making more “offensive” the “the sheriff’s a n****r!” scene. I was very surprised, and asked why he was adding instead of removing. He said “coz this shit is funny, motherfucker!”. When I asked if some people might be offended, he said something that will stay with me for all time; “when I called you a “motherfucker” just then, did you think I was insulting you?” ... I replied no, of course I didn’t, I just thought he was joking with me. “That’s the point, man. If shit’s funny then it’s funny, and nothing any tight-ass cocksucker says will make it not funny. Laughing is where we’re most honest – start thinking about whether or not shit is offensive, rather than just funny, and you end up with a motherfucking Swiss stand-up set. Fuck that, and fuck any motherfucker says different.”“
:)

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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

wait.. Disney did a movie of Huckleberry Finn?

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ORIGINAL: eihwaz
It's a commercial decision intended to increase the potential market for the work.

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

Panda I'm not trying to apply his words to any side in this discussion...just posting his words on the subject for consideration.

Why don’t you bless us with your translation.

Butch

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

Perhaps Twain himself could settle this argument with his own words on the subject.


The Brooklyn Public Library considered banning the books due to their "coarseness, deceitfulness and mischievous practices." A librarian there wrote to Twain asking him to defend his books.

Twain responded: "I am greatly troubled by what you say. I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' & 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave."

Butch

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

Perhaps Twain himself could settle this argument with his own words on the subject.


The Brooklyn Public Library considered banning the books due to their "coarseness, deceitfulness and mischievous practices." A librarian there wrote to Twain asking him to defend his books.

Twain responded: "I am greatly troubled by what you say. I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' & 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave."

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

Despite how I feel in the thread I thought his own words on the subject would be interesting.