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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Although I feel Huckleberry Finn can have a place in education, I do feel that some common sense should be applied. It would be unwise to present it to people who are too young to grasp the irony and satire, and it would be unwise in certain circumstances where the book's intended message would be misinterpreted or create a disruption.
For what it's worth, Stephen Colbert has tweeted his 2¢ worth:
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It's great that they took the N-word out of "Huckleberry Finn." Now get to work on "Moby D-Word."
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*Groan* That one has personal significance for me. I was a member of this gaming forum ages ago that had a ridiculously strict profanity filter. I tried to use the quote "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away" by Philip Dick in my signature and the freaking filter changed that to "Philip D$%k".
Considering that words scare people more than anything else, I wish I could buy a word-gun. No one would ever mess with me. Ooooh, he said the F-word while murdering that roomful of people. Obviously, we must censor the freaking
word 
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Has anyone tried to watch
The Matrix on an airplane personal video thingie? Among other hilarities, they actually substituted "jeepers creepers" for Neo saying "Jesus Christ"
. The whole movie felt like a parody
. Gotta admit though, funny as hell. Oops, I mean heck.