Listen. People. You can't let yourselves turn into thought police. A lot of folks have tried over the years to excise HULKBERRY FINN (1)
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from libraries and schools, even got so far as to create adaptations without the world Nigger in it. Yes. Nigger. I said it. i wrote it. (2)
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Nigger. These people are, at best, misguided. They think the word Nigger has enough corruptive value to undercut the message of the book.(3)
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Those people are wrong. At WORST they are fools and the dangerous, book burning sort of fool at that. Huckleberry Finn is and will (4)
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likely remain one of if not THE greatest treatise AGAINST slavery and racial discrimination every written by a human being. But we (5)
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wouldn't have that book now, not even to debate its merits, if people had access to twitter at the time of Twain's writing and someone (6)
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had announced the book and its themes at the time. A segment of society would have destroyed its ability to be published and distributed (7)
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THAT segment would have been the racists, the ex-confedrates & worshippers of Jim Crow whose politics even now are a cancer in our Union.(8)
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The purpose of our system is not to ensure that the ideas we LIKE are promoted and enshrined but that those we HATE, even the most (9)
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loathsome are protected. The notion that an IDEA, in itself can hurt or harm anyone is specious, cancerous & anti-American. (10)
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This notion that an idea can be harmful is cancerous. Let me check my thesaurus...
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