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Huck Finn

January 6th, 2011, 9:00 am

New edition of 'Huckleberry Finn' to lose the N-wordreminds me of the old Family Guy episodeHuck Griffin and N-word Jim
 
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Huck Finn

January 6th, 2011, 9:18 am

that makes me think to another sympathetic comic book hero whose words were sometimes rough against some. i mean Tintin.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainmen ... erdit.html
 
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Huck Finn

January 6th, 2011, 11:37 am

Hergé was well known to be racist. I have read tintin au congo and it's really a shame. It shows the spirit of occident towards their african colonies.
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Huck Finn

December 7th, 2012, 8:35 am

terms of endearment
 
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Huck Finn

December 7th, 2012, 8:36 am

QuoteOriginally posted by: frenchXHergé was well known to be racist.??? A Chinese was his best friend.
 
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Huck Finn

December 14th, 2012, 3:03 pm

the m-word
 
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Huck Finn

June 28th, 2013, 6:18 pm

I suppose kids in the USA don't read Mark Twain anymore?
 
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June 28th, 2013, 7:14 pm

cuch: that's where we started this threadQuoteOriginally posted by: ppauperNew edition of 'Huckleberry Finn' to lose the N-wordreminds me of the old Family Guy episodeHuck Griffin and N-word Jim
 
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July 21st, 2017, 9:28 pm

 
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July 22nd, 2017, 7:35 am

 
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Re: Huck Finn

July 22nd, 2017, 7:56 am

good question, and there are unconfirmed reports that the books have been burned
Janne Josefsson first raised the issue on Swedish radio, claiming that Botkyrka have been burning original versions of Lindgren’s book.
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When approached by Breitbart London, operations manager at Botkyrka Library, Anja Dahlstedt, was unable to confirm whether the books were being burned.
She said: “All books that are sorted at the libraries of Botkyrka are either put up for sale for everyone to buy or thrown away according to ordinary waste disposal routines.”
“I cannot answer to how our recycling company SRV handle books when it comes to recycling.
lol, that's a bizarre non-answer. You don't "recycle" paper by burning it, and if the books were in fact being recycled, then the answer would be "of course they are not being burned, they are being recycled."
Most libraries get rid of surplus stock by having an annual sale or putting the stuff on amazon, not burning it.
 
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Re: Huck Finn

July 22nd, 2017, 8:11 am

good question, and there are unconfirmed reports that the books have been burned
Janne Josefsson first raised the issue on Swedish radio, claiming that Botkyrka have been burning original versions of Lindgren’s book.
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When approached by Breitbart London, operations manager at Botkyrka Library, Anja Dahlstedt, was unable to confirm whether the books were being burned.
She said: “All books that are sorted at the libraries of Botkyrka are either put up for sale for everyone to buy or thrown away according to ordinary waste disposal routines.”
“I cannot answer to how our recycling company SRV handle books when it comes to recycling.
lol, that's a bizarre non-answer. You don't "recycle" paper by burning it, and if the books were in fact being recycled, then the answer would be "of course they are not being burned, they are being recycled."
Most libraries get rid of surplus stock by having an annual sale or putting the stuff on amazon, not burning it.
Maybe a national cleansing and removing all traces from collective memory, like the Eugenics program of yore?