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Originally Posted by patrickt
Somehow, hearing Simon Legree refer to "black Americans" just wouldn't work.
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Nor useful in explaining why the n-word is not used in polite company.
Or why people who knew what the old west was really like (like ERB) still wrote offensive cliche native Americans or why Germans might be wicked militarists, brave and dashing heroes of nasty baby killers in the works of the same authir, depending on which decade they were published.
All books are reflections of their native time and that too is a valuable role they serve in unedited, unexpurgated firm. Put an age-restictive sticker on it if you must ("protect the children") but leave the text alone.