Thursday, January 31, 2013

Censorship? Just Peachy!

So... Censorship. In my completely hosest opinion, it sucks ass. And you know what? I'm not going to censor that, or anything else. Do you know why?

Because censorship bites!

No matter, I am not here to talk about how it bites, and I am also not here to spout profanity (although, I may have to to emphasize some points)... I am here to talk about some idiots censoring the "n-word" in Huckleberry Finn. You know what? It's obsurd.
It's a book a man wrote a long, long time ago. Like, over 120 years ago! When the word was "appropriate for everyday use" or wahatever. You know what? I say get over it! It is a word. Used in a book.
Apparently, they replace the "n-word" with "slave." Uh, okay.

They (meaning the people who censored it in the first place) are thinking "Oh, little childeren read this book! No profanity!" First off, little kids don't read this book. It's older ones, who should be mature enough the read that damn word. Seriously. Young kids shouldn't be reading huge books anyways.

You want to censor The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? Well, it's not a profound book. How about Fifty Shades of Gray? Or Fifty Shades Darker? They do not censor words in those books out because it's mature adults that read explicit books like that.

So anyway.. Some more thoughts on this article:.

Eleventh graders Melvin Efesoa, Joseph Jaurdio and Ryan Farrell are confronting the controversial word and their feelings about it.


"I feel that that word is in there for a reason. Twain put the word in there to get our attention. And every time we read it, it does exactly that. It gets our attention," Farrell told Pitts.


"If you replace that with the word slave, of course people would be less bothered, but I think Twain wants people to be a little bit bothered," Jaurdio said.


"Melvin, you smiled," Pitts remarked, while interviewing the students.


"I smiled because like I just kind of think that constant use (of) the N-word, and to me, it feels unnecessary," Efesoa said.


"Why? What is it about this word?" Pitts asked.


"It reflects on African-American history back then. And like I said, it's a history that nobody wants to relive," Efesoa said.


"Do you think the discomfort starts and stops with the N-word? Or the discomfort extends to a conversation about race?" Pitts asked NewSouth Books' Randall Williams.


"In this specific instance, it is the word itself that is the problem. People are not comin' up sayin', 'Well, we can't teach this book because it's got discussion about slavery.' What they're sayin' is 'We can't teach the book because it's got all these repetitive instances of the offensive N-word in there, and therefore, we're not gonna use it,'" he replied.

Those boys sure are right.
How would you like your favorite book, or another well-loved book in America to be reprinted just to get rid of "Offensive language?" Or worse, If it looked like this:
I sat down on the porch looking out over the yard. I saw my friend, running from a dog. What an Idiot! (idiot)
I laughed as he made his way to me. "Shut up,(shut up) dude," he yelled.
Or, even this: jkfjaf sdasdfasf and adsad  me, sfsfsfsfdf.
Okay, maybe that's a lttle outrageuos. But you get the point.

Censorship? More like Censorshit.

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