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Why ban it when you could just censor it like Agatha Christie's magnum opus
by umvi 6y ago
Why ban it when you could just censor it like Agatha Christie's magnum opus
- ValentinPearce 6y agoCensoring is not a solution, it's just hiding the problem. It's important to know that saying someone is a nigger is bad but it's also important to remember that at some point it was perfectly normal. Also, Agatha Christie's "Then Little Niggers" was at some point called "Ten Little Indians" depicting Native Americans instead as if that were any better. It's now translated to And Then They were None nearly everywhere I thunk and the children's song speaks of 'Ten little Soldier Boys" which by today's standards feels pretty sexist. Wouldn't an introduction presenting the context or footnotes be better than censoring something that, at the time, was normal but upon which we can now reflect ?