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Huck Finn and Robots

Started by Eater of Clowns, February 10, 2011, 06:12:50 AM

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Eater of Clowns

No, really.

This group, in a bizarre and hilarious protest of the recent decision to change "nigger" to "slave" in a new edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is proposing a short printing wherein "nigger" is replaced with "robot."

QuoteMark Twain once said, "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter."

We couldn't agree more. And that right word is "robot."
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Nephew Twiddleton

Only problem I see is that robots don't care, right?



Right?

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navkat

That's awesome....and hey, it's a Kickstarter project! The guy who created that is a New Orleans native. My friend Earl was one of the first mofos to use it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/technology/start-ups/25kick.html - A bunch of old ravers in that article.

Now THIS is the brand of Discord (tm) that's right up my alley. I think I'll just have to chip in a few bucks.

The Good Reverend Roger

So...Blacks are robots and not humans?

My take on this is that anyone who wants to change the text of a period piece to satisfy current morality should be fed into a chipper.

Bastards.  They're basically a Poe's Law version of Alphonse Carr's Dictum.
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Cramulus

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 10, 2011, 04:21:02 PM
So...Blacks are robots and not humans?

My take on this is that anyone who wants to change the text of a period piece to satisfy current morality should be fed into a chipper.

Bastards.  They're basically a Poe's Law version of Alphonse Carr's Dictum.

They're not making a statement about race -- they're protesting the censorship of Huck Finn by intensifying its stupidity. They are drawing more attention to the censorship by making it both absurd and topical. Classic discordian form!


What confuses me is why the censorship of Huck Finn is even news! People have been redacting the N word pretty much continuously since it's been published. You'll never see exerpts from Huck Finn in a reading textbook, it's too controversial. If you read it in school, odds are you read a standalone book. And even then, it's one of those things that school boards wibble back and forth about every year.

AFK

Well, it's a good band name anyway. 
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Quote from: Cramulus on February 10, 2011, 04:42:00 PM
What confuses me is why the censorship of Huck Finn is even news!


Marketing.  The guy actively sought press so people would buy the book.

navkat

Quote from: Cramulus on February 10, 2011, 04:42:00 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 10, 2011, 04:21:02 PM
So...Blacks are robots and not humans?

My take on this is that anyone who wants to change the text of a period piece to satisfy current morality should be fed into a chipper.

Bastards.  They're basically a Poe's Law version of Alphonse Carr's Dictum.

They're not making a statement about race -- they're protesting the censorship of Huck Finn by intensifying its stupidity. They are drawing more attention to the censorship by making it both absurd and topical. Classic discordian form!

Basically what the Flying Spaghetti Monster did for the Creationism-in-schools argument.

Jasper

The movie in the link is funny.  They make it pretty clear that they're satirizing the revisionists.