Negro is a good idea because it derives the same essential connotations that you associate with the original term, without altering the meaning of the book.

The fact that it is a 'better word' to use than Nigger is merely the product of cultural subjectivism, how we associate the 'harshness' with the terms and uses of language.

I didn't do anything worthy of being credited for. I simply highlighted the intrinsic nature of the word Nigger.

Thanks anyway though.

I think I might have to beat the ever loving shit out of this man. And then maybe his prejudice on which he stands on to edit the words once written in the past.

When you change the word you don't just 'change the word' unless you change the word to a word that associates a similar meaning. He has, actually redefined the purposes of the negative connotations associated with black people in the book, and changed the definition of the words used for that reason it makes no sense.

You can throw around your fucking useless pity on the racial slurs used PUBLICLY that are AIMED at black people all you want but the fact of the matter is it doesn't insult ANYBODY unless the book (or the slur) objectively depicts a character that is of this real world and calls him or her something wretched along the lines of a 'stinking niggering cunt'.

You may take offence to such 'use of language', but not all people do, and frankly I don't give a crap since the above term does NOT refer to 'all black people', nor does it refer to the context of any black person in existence... As a matter of fact it refers to an imaginary character that I have fathomed for the purposes of the example that is beyond your possible characterisation. Racism itself is merely a form of subjectivism. Political correctness indeed, a proposition that has been overextended for far too long and needs to stop.

Quick grammar lesson kids...

If I call someone a pathetic black man. I associate his skin tone to the fact that he is a man and that he is pathetic. I have not associated the fact that a 'black man' is indeed pathetic, for that specific reason.

Now if I call a man pathetic because he is black, that is the generalisation in effect.

Racism and discrimination are two different things that when become confused produce some sort of imaginary criterion that many people often choose to believe because it feels somehow 'intuitive' to them, never mind if the 'racial slur' lacks any sort of objective connotations that are associated with it.

If anything you have merely removed Mark Twains rights to his own property, using the cruel world that is the consensual umpire (his rights to his own property are reduced by the editor having the ability to edit his work).

Jesus I'm 17 and I can figure this out. You people seriously need to grow up, and if anybody takes offence to anything I have said, I do not apologize, rather it would be a faculty in my own logic and my way of explaining various grammatical concepts to you, in which case I am open to criticism in the form of firm debate.

I will not accept any rhetoric shit. Just because something says an offensive word does not make that word offensive to any particular person by the context that it is used...

Oh and I understand that I tacitly consent to this being edited and all, but if you REALLY don't like what I say then I kindly ask you to delete it (although I do keep record of what was once said whenever I enter into debates on the internet). I wouldn't want anybody to wipe smut over a rational argument, that is open to debate. But frankly I've had enough of these M***** snakes on this M***** plane. ¬_¬