A campaign to replace the N-word in Huckleberry Finn with the word “robot”

chance are you ’ve listen aboutan Alabama publishing company ’s NewSouth Books plans to release an edition of Mark Twain ’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finnthat replaces Twain ’s many U.S. of the N - Holy Writ with the news “ slave . ” To protest NewSouth ’s revision , Gabriel Diani and Etta Devine started a satirical Kickstarter undertaking dedicate to publishing an edition of Huck Finn that substitutes the N - word with “ golem . ” Here ’s their rationale :

critic are calling [ NewSouth ’s edition ] “ censoring ” and “ whitewashing of history . ” We call it “ not far enough . ” [ … ] Why robots ? Well , there ’s no denying it : automaton are “ in ” powerful now . The film “ Transformers ” made over $ 708 million around the human race . The moving-picture show “ Transformers : Revenge of the Fallen ” made over $ 800 million dollars . The last film version of Huckleberry Finn only bring in $ 24 million buck . Even accounting for inflation ( which we frankly do n’t know how to do ) , it ’s clear that robots are more pop than Huckleberry Finn .

And that ’s a MOVIE , not a book .

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But why not vampires ? They ’re “ in ” too , are n’t they ? in force point , hypothetical dubiousness inquirer . Vampires are “ in . ” But replacing the Bible “ n - word ” with vampire would be light-headed . Robots have a long account in literature and popular civilization of being used as a metaphor for thrall and subjugation . Replacing the black fictitious character with robots in the book will maintain the integrity of MOST of Mark Twain ’s root word . It will also make the account book more attractive to racist who would n’t unremarkably read a book sympathetic to the quandary of African Americans in the Antebellum South . And this is really about getting more mass to study the book .

Here ’s theirKickstarter page . They ’ve already raise $ 15,325 of their $ 6,000 budget ( with three week left ) , and $ 50 conferrer will get a Robot Jim action physique in addition to their own bowdlerized , roboticized book . And if you donate $ 1000 to the project , your own name will be added to the Quran ( “ Become an additional mentioned townie or river stinker , wherever we cerebrate you belong in the text ” ) . It ’s all part of a “ movement to change classic literature ! ” press the box below to look on their clapper - in - cheek pitch shot .

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