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| queenmushroom |
Posted - Nov 13 2011 : 09:14:53 AM
Ok, I'm reading Rhett Butler's People by McCagg(who's as white and Irish as I am). It's about Rhett Butler and how he came about for Gone With The Wind. McCagg uses the "N" word in the book. This is a recent book (written with in the past 10 years). Now my question is this...the PC crowd wants to do away with Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as we knew it growing up due to the "N" word. Here in a modern book, this word is thrown about and nothing is mentioned about it. This book was authorized to be written by some society in Georgia (the same one who banned the publication of The Wind Done Gone). Is this the pot calling the kettle black? I guess I just don't get this whole PC thing at all. Can anyone else enlighten me on why some books can be banned and others cannot due to one word?
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| queenmushroom |
Posted - Nov 13 2011 : 12:18:55 PM
No, he's not quoting Rhett from GWTW. It's just that I find the whole banning books due to one word hypocritical. Here, in one instance (RBP), it's ok to do so, but with the T.S. and H.F. it's not. That's all.
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| one_dog_per_acre |
Posted - Nov 13 2011 : 11:31:12 AM
It really depends what the context is. If he is quoting Rhett, he can't really change that.
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