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[quote=Anonymous]I am sorry, but I went to those links thinking I would find books such as "Huck Finn," "Tom Sawyer" or even " Uncle Tom's Cabin" because they refer to black people as "niggers."
We might also find Shakespeare.  I mean, the "Merchant of Venice" is not exactly PC in its portrayal, of Jews.  I am sure that there are many other "non-PC" books that are in the classic literature category.  What exactly is your point OP? That such books no longer deserve a reading because they no longer conform to what we consider polite? So called "political correctness" is dangerous when it strays beyond the boundaries of good manners to thought control.

In his classic dystopian novel "Fahrenheit 451" Ray Bradbury  described how books were first burned by minorities, "each ripping a page or a paragraph from this book, then that, until the day came when the books were empty and the minds shut and the libraries closed forever."

We ostensibly live in a free society that guarantees freedom of speech. With that comes a concomitant responsibility to listen.  It does not mean there is a freedoms to be protected from offense.

"The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule. If Mormons do not like my plays, let them write their own. If the Irish hate my Dublin stories, let them rent type-writers. If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture. If the Chicano intellectuals wish to re-cut my “Wonderful Ice Cream Suit” so it shapes “Zoot,” may the belt unravel and the pants fall."

RIP Ray.  You fought the good fight.  Thank you for your stories.

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