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Originally Posted by crich70
...If the slur is removed it starts the progression from realistic portrayal of the times towards a Disney like interpretation of what life was like back then. By Huck going from using the word to referring to Jim as his friend you see that Huck is coming to understand that some things no matter how commonplace are wrong. That's a lesson we still need even today. That some things that are considered to be 'normal' are still wrong.
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That's the very point I was making in Post #146. I do think it hilarious, though, that someone felt it necessary to produce a "Patriot's Version" where the word was changed to "Navy Seal." Surely it was done with tongue firmly in cheek, and with a poke in the eye toward other versions that censored the word altogether.
While I'm no fan of the word itself, and certainly no fan of its current gratuitous use in rap music, popular films, and elsewhere; it's difficult to imagine how Mark Twain would have got his point across as powerfully as he did without it.