The Glade 4.0

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582 ... latestnews

Maybe Tom Sawyer and N-word Jim can lead a bold new adventure? Me I would like to see them try and clean up Mel Brooks Blazing Saddles.

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

I am angry about this. Going back and editing works that are considered classics is beyond ridiculous.

This is akin to banning and burning books.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Well it is plainly their fault for using the vocabulary at the time. If they where at all enlightened beings, then they would have seen in the furture the hateful racist nature of their language and avoided it.

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

FFS!!! Words cannot express what I'm feeling at this moment!!

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

In 100 years, when no one gives a **** about the word nigger anymore, are the books going to be reverted back?

Idiotic.

Three cheers for Newspeak.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

After reading the following, I had to double check and make sure this wasn't on Onion...

Ha.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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++good!

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Holy shitsnacks!

The Congress for Racial Equality is extremely right-wing.

Ad hominem fallacy.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

I think this guy should change his name to N-word. Its not right to flaunt it like that.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Not necessarily. His post doesn't indicate that he thinks that that makes the statements wrong. I actually took Xeq's post the other way, "Even this extremely right-wing group is offended by the blatant racism against black people this publisher is displaying."

You may be right, he just didn't specify.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

Fair enough.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

It wasn't the name of the organization that I found odd.

I honestly thought that the post was expressing surprise that a civil rights group would be opposed to removing the word nigger from a book. I just pointed out that CORE is very right-wing which means this position isn't out of character for them.

I think it had more to do with "BLACK out part of history" or whatever.



Revising history with warm and fuzzy language should be out of character for every person and group in a free country.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

In jr high, I remember reading My Brother Sam is Dead with all the curse words scratched out. I can see something like that but you shouldn't go around editing "original works" If you want to do a "modern english version" of a novel and brand it as such I can see that.

And I would have just picked a different adjective than just putting "N-word" on the cover.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Yup, I died a little inside when I read that.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

I think they were trying to retain a little bit of honesty, so they intentionally didn't put some safe pseudo-equivalent. Doing so is like trying to cover it up. It's... less bad this way.

Overall, however, it's terribly silly. I'd be more fired up, but I don't see this catching on.