Reply #129: seriously?

[Spike89]

First off, I've never heard even rabid nazi's scream "holocaust" as a slur--the true equivalence might be removing the casual use of an anti-semitic slur when discussing the Holocaust. The central theme of Huck Finn is slavery and it sounds as if the book isn't being edited to remove that at all.

Second off, it's a big leap from a special edition with edits to "removing all references..." No where in the story did it say that the N word was being removed from all new editions. You are aware that for probably 100 years or more, various editions, adaptations, and derivative works have existed? There were movies made, some used the N word, others did not...Huck survived. The "Original" (very unlikely the first edition wasn't copyedited/proofed by someone other than Clemens) still exists despite these things also existing.