N I G G E R J I M
R.I.P.
DEFACING CLASSIC LITERATURE IN THE NAME OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.
Mark Twain's American classic
The adventures of Huck Finn, is undergoing a PC facelift. It seems Twain's black hero "Nigger Jim" has to be renamed. Despite the novel's historical accuracies and depiction of a Pre Civil War / War of northern Aggression (1835 - 1845) race relations , it has now been deemed too offensive. ....
The adventures of Huck Finn, is undergoing a PC facelift. It seems Twain's black hero "Nigger Jim" has to be renamed. Despite the novel's historical accuracies and depiction of a Pre Civil War / War of northern Aggression (1835 - 1845) race relations , it has now been deemed too offensive. ....
Thats right, the book you were assigned to read as home work, back before the Marxist fixed our schools, is now un acceptable.
Is it the altering of American Classic literature by the
PC Leftist okay ?
Have we become a Nation of hyper sensitive sissies?
( I didnt want to risk using the "P" word)
Although the most publicized American and British censorship of literature in the twentieth century has involved debates over obscenity and pornography, the United States government also has censored literature for political reasons. The 1917 Espionage Act and 1918 Sedition Amendment suppressed antiwar periodicals and deported communists, labor activists and other radicals. During the Cold War, in addition to censoring films and “blacklisting” (can we still say "blacklisting") writers who were deemed “Communist sympathizers,” Sen. Joseph McCarthy had books by writers deemed politically suspect removed from U.S. Information Agency libraries abroad.
( I didnt want to risk using the "P" word)
Although the most publicized American and British censorship of literature in the twentieth century has involved debates over obscenity and pornography, the United States government also has censored literature for political reasons. The 1917 Espionage Act and 1918 Sedition Amendment suppressed antiwar periodicals and deported communists, labor activists and other radicals. During the Cold War, in addition to censoring films and “blacklisting” (can we still say "blacklisting") writers who were deemed “Communist sympathizers,” Sen. Joseph McCarthy had books by writers deemed politically suspect removed from U.S. Information Agency libraries abroad.
| Literary censorship has been particularly and thoroughly practiced by authoritarian and totalitarian states in the twentieth century. Strict censorship of all forms of public expression characterized the Soviet Union, the Communist satellite states of Eastern Europe and the apartheid regime of South Africa. Many writers in the Communist block were sentenced to hard labor or sent into exile. The writing of Nobel Prize winners such as Boris Pasternak, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Joseph Brodsky was banned in the Soviet Union and Poland. Prevented from publishing their work in the Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and other Communist countries, Eastern European and Soviet writers relied on samizdat—surreptitious self-publishing and dissemination of literary works—and tamizdat—émigré publishing houses in Western Europe—to evade censors. Many writers from authoritarian regimes went into exile in order to be able to write and publish freely, or have assumed pen named such as Fjordman. | |
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