I see, belatedly, that I should have looked at the link to the The Hipster Huckleberry Finn. LOL. I've read Twain's original classic, indeed was required to in school, a couple of times. While hatred is offensive, I never found Twain's use of the word "nigger" in this novel to be offensive, nor I think intended so; merely a reflection of how people spoke.
"Sanatizing the past" A. is impossible, short of event-changing time-travel. B. is misrepresenting the truth and human history. C. leads to other distortions, that in turn make it even more difficult to learn from history, even recent history. (e.g. a few years back on Bill Moyers Journal findable at pbs.com, Moyers interviewed/discussed with a fellow journalist US newspaper articles on the war in Iraq and how it was going, contrasting it with US newspaper articles and reports from the late 60's and early 1970's on the state of the war, I mean of course Police Action, in Viet Nam.) Perhaps not so strangely, writing about this in your journal brings Orwell's "1984" to mind yet again.
Oops! Bad me!
"Sanatizing the past" A. is impossible, short of event-changing time-travel. B. is misrepresenting the truth and human history. C. leads to other distortions, that in turn make it even more difficult to learn from history, even recent history. (e.g. a few years back on Bill Moyers Journal findable at pbs.com, Moyers interviewed/discussed with a fellow journalist US newspaper articles on the war in Iraq and how it was going, contrasting it with US newspaper articles and reports from the late 60's and early 1970's on the state of the war, I mean of course Police Action, in Viet Nam.) Perhaps not so strangely, writing about this in your journal brings Orwell's "1984" to mind yet again.