tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106619.post8201360238207837476..comments2023-09-12T09:17:19.865-07:00Comments on Socialist Humanism with a human face: Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn and CensorshipJDHURFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02133971619468463558noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106619.post-7996563695405867742011-04-11T11:16:25.666-07:002011-04-11T11:16:25.666-07:00by the way, as a former new orleanian, i learned f...by the way, as a former new orleanian, i learned from a new orleans public library exhibit that runaway slaves were sometimes beheaded and had their heads staked up at the end of canal street<br /><br />Laissez les bons temps rouler - never was the same for me after thatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106619.post-50247991351965960782011-04-11T11:00:35.429-07:002011-04-11T11:00:35.429-07:00norman mailer took years to live down the "fu...norman mailer took years to live down the "fugs'(original "fucks") he replaced in "naked...et.al) to placate censorial commission of his publisher: thanks to ed sanders,-rock group -ha ha<br />anyway - i would prefer to see a switch around similar to one suggested by a. crowley regarding browning's "pippa passes" (switch i and a)<br />howz about "fuck hinn"? he could be a televangelist from the deltaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106619.post-89645863467398203712011-01-22T11:55:48.186-08:002011-01-22T11:55:48.186-08:00How sad indeed. I agree with you that censoring i...How sad indeed. I agree with you that censoring is "wrong enough" when the censored material is morally awry and even worse when the material contains as powerful a moral statement as Huck Finn. <br /><br />The move to censor ugly words is, as you observe, as misguided as censoring Milk of homophobia. <br /><br />It is also the worst sort of historical revisionism that erodes the totality of horror that is racism and slavery.JDHURFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133971619468463558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106619.post-77969639633415553352011-01-21T13:05:45.116-08:002011-01-21T13:05:45.116-08:00Well said!! Censorship of any kind is ignoble and ...Well said!! Censorship of any kind is ignoble and wrong. It's wrong enough when the literature in question is actually problematic or immoral (i.e.: Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice or Griffith's Birth of a Nation.) But it's even worse when the work is filled with moral conscience, like Huck Finn.<br /><br />Huck Finn has been a target of would-be moral censors my whole life, both from conservatives who wish to santize Southern history and liberals who think the "n" word should be edited from literature. The former inclination is immoral; the latter is as ridiculous as opposing the film Milk because it contains homophobia.<br /><br />The scene you described in which Huck realizes that morality transcends what he's been told by his local religious establishment is a watershed moment in American literature. <br /><br />How sad that one of the best and most morally inspiring books ever written is subject to censure by folks who are disingenuous are plain wrong.Eli Jeremiahnoreply@blogger.com