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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Right.
But nonetheless many do.
Just like they complain about Twain, and Burroughs, and other long dead authors. Retroactively applying 21st century mores to 19th and 20th century writers.
I'm not saying it is sensible--it isn't --but it happens.
More and more frequently, too.
Worse, they complain when stories set in the past accurately reflect the prejudices of the past.
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And they try to rewrite the books, which isn't likely to work. I remember a few yrs back someone was going to try to re-write the Narnia books and remove the Christian symbolism as part of it. The symbolic elements of Christian belief are basic to the story- line so how you could remove them without destroying the books (especially "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe") is beyond me. I mean C.S. Lewis wove the tale around basic Christian themes and without them you have nothing left. Twain of course is often ridiculed for words that were in common use back in his time. Is his work P.C.? No. But if you remove pieces of his text and make it P.C. you lose some of the flavor of the stories. People in the 19th century didn't have the outlook on things that people in the 21st century do. If you try to imply that they did then you're being dishonest I think. We may not be comfortable with how segments of society were treated back then but we do need to acknowledge that it happened. If you forget the past you are far more likely to repeat it.