http://www.mitzimoments.com/2011/01/04/when-being-p-c-is-just-b-s/ Sat, 09 Apr 2011 04:17:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.37 http://www.mitzimoments.com/2011/01/04/when-being-p-c-is-just-b-s/#comment-1671 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 04:37:51 +0000 http://mitzimiller.com/?p=186#comment-1671 Hmm, maybe people are taking this &quot;post-racial&quot; thing a bit too far. If Twain didn&#39;t want the words &#39;nigger&#39; and &#39;injun&#39; in the book, he wouldn&#39;t have put them there. <br />The book takes place during the days of slavery; people were not politically correct back then. I don&#39;t understand how anyone can feel comfortable changing the way someone else wrote a

]]> http://www.mitzimoments.com/2011/01/04/when-being-p-c-is-just-b-s/#comment-1670 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:54:35 +0000 http://mitzimiller.com/?p=186#comment-1670 I think he said he did this because he kept hearing from teachers that they were unable to teach the books in public schools because it was A) difficult for white teachers to read the word out loud to classes and B) parents complained. My solution instead of censoring is that maybe it&#39;s a book that gets read in college instead of middle or high school, when people are mature enough to handle

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