New edition removes Mark Twain's 'offensive' words

[Great Dane]

The fuss about nigger reminds of a big ado when I was in junior high concerning the word 'niggardly', which means stingy but some black people have a hypersensitivity regarding any n-word.

[Crossbow]

Unforgivable and perplexing, a professor who acts on his own authority and considers himself entitled to delete words in a classic written many years ago.
Let him stick to his pc-audience, and keep his hands off the work of others.

[Grey]

They've done this before. I read a censored copy as a child and ended up embarrassing myself at the district quiz bowl with the answer "Outlaw Joe."

[Debaser11]

I think anyone censoring the work of a writer (particularly a writer that is dead who can't defend against such action) is pretty much the defintion of a nigger.

[Magister Eckhart]

The fuss about nigger reminds of a big ado when I was in junior high concerning the word 'niggardly', which means stingy but some black people have a hypersensitivity regarding any n-word.

A lot of it has to do with the fact that they lack the intelligence to differentiate, and also because everything negative in their lives is "racis'". "Racism" as an accusation is their go-to mechanism to function as part of our society, to make up for an inferiority, be it in-born or acquired, to native Westerners. This inferiority could be the result of poor handling on our part, ill-preparation for a formerly enslaved group to participate in our society because we were so eager to give them "equality", or it could be because the American Negro is naturally the lowest of his kind (one has to assume that they had some inferiority to their fellow Africans-- after all, they ended up as slaves and their relatives in Africa who sold them to Europeans did not). One way or another, there is an insufficiency that makes the Negro in America reach for anything that can give him a hand up over the European American.

[Aces High]

I have always been curious to find out when the pc brigade get round to editing R H Dana's "Two years before the mast".

I dont think they will like to read what he has to say about the mexicans in the young California he saw.

[Raskolnikov]

Only reason we had to read this book is because it fits into a story of egalitarian progress from racist backwardness. They can change 'their' book all they want because the way they presented it and all the others was already a false history.