Mark Twain's classic novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been republished without the n-word, a term now deeply offensive to American sensibilities. But Gabriel Diani and Etta Devine think that this change doesn't go far enough. They have a Kickstarter project to republish the novel with the word "robot" replacing the n-word, and further alternations to the text to make the character Jim clearly a robot instead of a human. At the link, you can view a hilarious video that they've put together explaining the venture.
Link via Gizmodo
But I will say, we need to remember the bad things from the past to improve. We need to be able to read books from the past and scoff at what was once the norm. Whether the norm was to call people nigger, threatening 'faggots' and bi-racial couples, treating women like they didn't have the capacity for intelligent thought, or other equally despicable things.
Remembering it, seeing it, helps us remember how many mistakes were made then and are still being made today.
Which is why it's pathetic that we have delicate sensibilities regarding our ugly history. The word isn't there because it's ok today, it's because it was ok then. And we need to reflect on how that happens.
(If they covered this in the video, I apologize.)
Cyborgy and Bess.
They call me MISTER 3PO.