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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
I agree. It's an attempt to sanitize our past and pretend like this word never existed in common language. If we don't let our children now the origins and real use of the N-word, how will they ever now WHY it is offensive in the first place?
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So here's a question, for those of us lucky enough to not know the n-word or any other slur/offensive word up to a certain age because we weren't called it, when do you want your kid to find out the word exists? Do you introduce Huck Finn to a kid who's never heard the n-word before? Apply this to the c-word, or to other racial or ethnic slurs too.
Also, the years of teaching Huck Finn haven't exactly erased the current use of it as a slur either, so while that may be the ideal, I'm not sure it's actually successful.