The trusty Huffington Post just posted a blog post by Evil Wylie’s blog: Evil Reads. As we are all aware, the English had developed a great deal over the past decades. Considering these changes, editor Evil Wylie has “stripped the unsightly ‘n-word’ from Twain’s original text – and replaced it with ‘Navy SEAL.'” Now, Huck goes on his adventure with his friend, Navy SEAL Jim. See the article here.
What impact do you think this will have on the story?
This is definitely one of the most ridiculous things I’ve seen in my life. I honestly don’t know if I’d rather have it banned or have it be altered like that…I think I’d go with banned. This whole thing makes me so upset I can’t even articulate how ridiculous I think an alteration a text like this is.