"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
That Moment When You Censor An Anti-Slavery Novel For Being Historically Accurate
Submitted by A. Magnus on Wed, 2015-12-16 01:00
"Now a school in Philadelphia recently announced that it was removing Huckleberry Finn, the Mark Twain novel written in 1885 that ranks as one of the all-time great American novels ever, from its classroom curriculum…Because the book dares, in its historical accuracy, to include use of the “N” word."
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