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Article #596566Re: E.R. Burroughs
From: Quadibloc
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 12:33
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 12:33
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On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 8:34:14 PM UTC-6, J. Clarke wrote: > In article <798342bb-e74b-4f0a...@googlegroups.com>, > hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com says... > > On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 3:34:06 PM UTC-4, ma...@mail.com wrote: > > > Almost all fantasy-fiction books, say 1880-1950 were racist. Heinlein was > > > a good writer, but a psyc* would spend weeks dredging his deepest needs. > > > Then psych* aare full of shi* anyway. I must reread Clarke's > > > "The City and the Stars" again. > > Lots of old books were racist. I was surprised they had us read > > Mark Twain in public school due to its racism and liberal use of > > the n-word, as in "nobody was killed except some n-----s". > For certain values. Twain was an abolitionist. Painting him as a > racist is reaching. And the story Huckleberry Finn has, as a major element in it, a young boy, in his innocence and naivete, having difficulties understanding why it is wrong, as the adult world claims, to help a runaway slave to escape. For Twain to attempt to shield his readers from words that were used every day in his time would then have been quite useless, only making him subject to ridicule. When slavery was the law of the land, the battle for what is itself ridiculed by calling it political correctness - originally a Soviet term - lay in the future. John Savard
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