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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People! All they did was change the name of the award. Nobody is banning the books. Yeesh![/quote]

No, they're not banning the books.  But the very act of purging her name from the award is incredibly offensive.  She wrote what she knew, during her lifetime - not ours.  [/quote]

Ah, so it's YOUR being offended everyone should care about. It's only when [i]other[/i] people are offended by something that they're wrong.  :roll: [/quote]

What on earth are you babbling about?  Maybe the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, awarded at the Kennedy Center most recently to Julia Louis-Dreyfus, should be changed to a different name.  After all, didn't Mark Twain have "racist" phrases in his books?  Things that were commonplace for his era, but would never be uttered today?  Yes, I think you should lobby the Kennedy Center and MAKE SURE they change the name of this award.  It's just so offensive!  Also, I think all the previous recipients should have their award revoked.  I'm sure they wouldn't feel right about accepting something with the name of a "racist" on it.

https://www.kennedy-center.org/pages/specialevents/marktwain
Previous recipients of the Mark Twain include Richard Pryor (1998), Jonathan Winters (1999), Carl Reiner (2000), Whoopi Goldberg (2001), Bob Newhart (2002), Lily Tomlin (2003), Lorne Michaels (2004), Steve Martin (2005), Neil Simon (2006), Billy Crystal (2007), George Carlin (2008), Bill Cosby (2009, rescinded in 2018) Tina Fey (2010), Will Ferrell (2011), Ellen DeGeneres (2012), Carol Burnett (2013) Jay Leno (2014), Eddie Murphy (2015), Bill Murray (2016), and David Letterman (2017). [/quote]

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