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> who wish racial slurs had a more prominent place in modern society. Nobody is wishing they had a more prominent place today, nor in the future. Rather, there
by GJim 2y ago
> who wish racial slurs had a more prominent place in modern society.
Nobody is wishing they had a more prominent place today, nor in the future. Rather, there is a need not to edit the past, lest we forget it.
> "And Then There Were None" in its first US edition in 1940; the use of the original title until 1985 is a UK thing.
I suggest that is because in the USA, particularly in the south, political sensitivities about such a title would be difficult to overcome and the association with an old British poem would be completely lost.
- bloak 2y ago> the association with an old British poem Wait, are you sure about that? Wikipedia says "an 1869 minstrel song". I had assumed it was a song from the USA that happened to be fairly well known in Britain. Also I have the impression that the word "nigger" is not traditional in British English. The first time I came across the word was when reading Mark Twain. I had previously heard several words used for referring to darker-skinned people but not that one. Of course that's just my experience from one part of the country.