>>>http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/01/04/new.huck.finn.ew/index.html
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>>Times change.
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>>Do you think it's an acceptable word? If you were black would you want to be called that?
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>That has nothing to do with. The fact that it is unacceptable and makes you feel uncomfortable is part of the goal. This is literature and the words used set the tone and the experience for the story. Those words are used for a reason in that story and it is not to further discrimination. You have read the book, right? The context is important. It is actually required and critical. Literature reveals us in all our ugliness. Are you trying to erase history?

I can't believe such a simple point is so misunderstood. It doesn't make me uncomfortable, it's just an ugly word. It was then, too. Would you like being called a squaw?