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Originally Posted by Muckraker
I never claimed the readers concerned with racism in that book were holding rallies. It's a book pretty much nobody buys, reads, or cares about--partly because a used copy costs $150 and partly because of the racism. Yet it is still a key book in a long series of them. I gave it some love, brought the cost back to this planet, footnoted the racism, and clearly identified what was changed.
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My bolding on the quote. Really? Do you think this:
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*Note* The book contains minor content edits that were made to remove or change some distracting and very "non-Oz" words and phrases. The appendix details the changes and also contain the original unedited lines.
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really informs the potential purchaser of your, rather expensive, book that it actually means
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Instead of black human slaves that could have been dropped into the US and fit right in picking cotton, I made them humanoid slaves made of black stone.
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which, to my mind, completely changes the characterization of the character who
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mounted on her dark and flaming horse, mows down a group of screaming, terrified black slaves brandishing her silver staff. She merrily explains that doing this is no problem, since this is how bad beasts are treated in her home planet, so she is accustomed to this. ... By the time she is finished, Planetty has transformed sixty slaves into unmoving metal statues. The rest of the slaves flee, crying in terror. Kabumpo makes a quiet vow to never offend Planetty, ever.
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Forgive me if I disagree.