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		isolli on March 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted ... As someone once said about the controversy surrounding Mark Twain's books: "so there weren't any n** back then?" Meaning that reprinting his books and replacing the n word with the more neutral "slave" risks whitewashing the terrible suffering that black slaves endured.

major505 on March 11, 2021 [–]

Also, theres a lot of presumption, thinking you can rewrite a classic author just to fit your modern sensibilities.

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