It’s not often I get to rant about the Left. It’s rare that something comes across my view from that side which garners my attention. However, now they have done something which galls me to no end. They want to change the key works of Mark Twain.
This is where the Left loses me, and causes me to look for large objects with which to pelt them. They have decided that in the case of political correctness, that they should change the key works of Mark Twain. Someone get me a bat!
The whole point of Huck Finn was to illustrate how horribly the south treated slaves. Now all of a sudden you want to change the wording because you think it is too offensive? Hey clueless…it’s SUPPOSED to be offensive. You’re supposed to be outraged, you’re supposed to be shocked. That’s the whole point, Nimrod!
Mark Twain is a pillar in the American literary scene. If you change his works you diminish them in ways, I can’t begin to describe. It’s appalling. You should be ashamed for even suggesting it. Hey…while you’re at it, why not just re-write the Constitution? I know there are some offensive words in there.
Political correctness has gone way too far. I never have liked using the words African American. I think that term itself is inherently racist. How the hell am I supposed to know if someone is African American? For all I know they could have come from Jamaica. Besides, I’m just a white guy. I don’t think anyone sits down to try and figure out where my ancestors came from.
I think people spend too much time trying to find ways to be a victim. There are true horrors in the world, and real people, who have suffered real atrocities. Why make up something so stupid as a word to make you a victim. If we continue to give weight to the distribution of random characters, how can we expect to get passed the real issues?
Slavery was wrong, racism is wrong, hate is wrong. There’s no way around that. Trying to make it seem less horrifying does nothing for your cause. Huck Finn, and Tom Sawyer are literary works which illustrate how people treated each other during a particular time in our history. If we try to gloss over our history in an effort to make it less painful, we’ll never learn anything from it, and in turn, be destined to repeat it.