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Re: Making classical literature politically correct

Post by Bella Fortuna » Fri Jan 07, 2011 2:52 pm

maiforpeace wrote:
Bella Fortuna wrote:I think it's abysmal - why not keep the work intact and teach about context and history? Because that would be too much work... far easier to pretend nothing controversial has ever happened... :banghead:
History? What history...it's fucking Alabama! People STILL think and speak this way about black people there. :lol:
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Re: Making classical literature politically correct

Post by devogue » Fri Jan 07, 2011 2:55 pm

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So, Mick Fleetwood would become ... ? :dunno:
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Post by Atheist-Lite » Fri Jan 07, 2011 3:00 pm

Next on the list? There's a entire country with the 'N' word as its name....the US should invade and rename it? :tup:
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Re: Making classical literature politically correct

Post by Pappa » Mon Jan 10, 2011 11:50 am

Maybe the publisher was a nigger and didn't like it? :ask:

More seriously though, I agree that it is terrible to edit stuff like that. Works like this should be read with the historical context of the time they were written in mind. Excising the word is a form of historical revisionism.
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Re: Making classical literature politically correct

Post by Clinton Huxley » Mon Jan 10, 2011 12:17 pm

Seems a little cowardly. They'll be re-writing the Bible next....
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Re: Making classical literature politically correct

Post by Trolldor » Mon Jan 10, 2011 12:18 pm

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Re: Making classical literature politically correct

Post by Berthold » Thu Jan 13, 2011 5:56 pm

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Re: Making classical literature politically correct

Post by Millefleur » Thu Jan 13, 2011 6:16 pm

Fucking retarded. I read Uncle Tom's Cabin last week for the third or fourth time, that book wouldn't work without prolific use of the word nigger. It's part of our history and to erase it from books of the time means they can't be read in context and, as in Uncle Tom's Cabin and Huck Finn, the anti-racism/slavery message doesn't carry quite the same weight.
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Re: Making classical literature politically correct

Post by Robert_S » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:05 pm

I don't care for the word, but dammit, it's in the context of a fucking time when people spoke like that. Let's edit slavery and the indigenous population from our history books too while we're at it. Let's edit the fuck out of everything from the past we don't care for! Then future generations puzzle about how everyone is kinda shitty and life really but they used to be so nice and get along so well in the past. They'll blame their technology only to find that they aren't really willing to give it up. In the end, they'll end up using some group, probably dark-skinned, as a scapegoat, cattle trains, and rumours of what goes on in the mysterious camps a little ways outside of town.
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Re: Making classical literature politically correct

Post by Svartalf » Mon Jan 24, 2011 12:13 pm

I just hope tha publisher burns and the guy who actually did the bowdlerizing dies in the fire, and preferably said fire to be lit by a meteor smelling of brimstone so the xtians will believe it was the hand of Dog
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Re: Making classical literature politically correct

Post by Svartalf » Mon Jan 24, 2011 12:17 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:Seems a little cowardly. They'll be re-writing the Bible next....
So the Curse of Ham won't be dark skin but the fact pork is impure and unfit for Jewish eating?
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Re: Making classical literature politically correct

Post by normal » Mon Jan 24, 2011 12:26 pm

I look forward to when they change the skrælingar in viking litterature to native americans/inuits.
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Re: Making classical literature politically correct

Post by Hermit » Mon Jan 24, 2011 12:36 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:They'll be re-writing the Bible next....
It has been done.

Twice.

Besides the numerous translations, retranslations and revisions of translations over the past millennia, that is.
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Re: Making classical literature politically correct

Post by Faithfree » Mon Jan 24, 2011 12:53 pm

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Clinton Huxley wrote:They'll be re-writing the Bible next....
It has been done.
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