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ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 01:29 PM Original message |
What's your take on the N word in Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn? |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
1. That it was used in a different era, with different viewpoints |
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HEyHEY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
2. What do I think? I think you and your buddy Sam are a couple of biggots! |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 01:33 PM Response to Original message |
3. Given that Huck Finn was one of the first major works to question racism |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
4. The N-word was used differently back then. |
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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
5. Twain's characters spoke as people then spoke |
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liberalitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
6. Twain wrote these books in a day when many in dixie..... |
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GumboYaYa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
7. Words are just symbols to convey meaning, what matters is the |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
8. My take is that it was part of the language then |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
9. Keep it in! Anyone who would edit it out is a goddamn fool. |
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mvd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 03:54 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Right now, there would be NO excuse |
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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
10. what's your take on a college class, reading some book that |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
12. Depends on what you're asking. |
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