Follow this link to a story about the new "sanitized" edition of Huckleberry Finn. The creators argue that sanitizing the novel makes it accessible to many people who would otherwise be too uncomfortable to read it. Opponents argue that it is wrong in any case to modify a writer's text, but that in this case one of the benefits of the novel is that it does make people uncomfortable so they will think and talk about race dynamics in the U.S. past and present.
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