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On NPR this morning, there was an interview with the professor (a Twain scholar at Auburn) who did the editing. His daughter's friend, a black girl, mentioned how "disgusting" it was to read Huck Finn and it turned her off from reading Twain. Being that he was a Twain scholar, it gave him the sadz and he wondered what he could do about it.
It's still lame! His daughter's friend is a black girl from Alabama--seriously, she found reading that word in a historical/literary context disgusting? I can think of many other instances where it's far more offensive.
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