Technically, Huck identified as “hayseed” which is represented by the yellow stripe
Shermer High’s principal, Richard Vernon, explained the board’s controversial decision.
“Some people find their decision a little odd,” said Vernon. “Historically, when ‘Huck Finn’ gets censored, it’s because someone objects to one or more of it’s 219 uses of the N-word. But that’s not the problem. See, the current trend has moved away from being N-offended to N-empowered, where you feel so secure about your dignity that you just shrug it off. Especially when encountering historically accurate usage of the word, like in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” or “Blazing Saddles”. Quite frankly, the prevailing attitude is that if the only place you can find the N-word these days is in a single 135-year-old book that nobody’s ever read without being threatened with an F from an English teacher, it’s safe to say that African-Americans have won that battle and it’s time to move on.”
“Now, the ‘gender sensitives’ on the other hand, they’re just starting with their own peculiar brand of fussing over things that they don’t like,” Vernon said. “At first they were very embracing of the book because Huck spends a lot of time, you know, alone with an older man. Plus there’s that scene where Huck wears a skirt and tries to pass as female. However, the LGBTIQCAPGNGFNBA community has since enlightened me that there are still ‘issues’ with Twain’s narrative style that need to be addressed. Specifically, Twain’s insistence upon using ‘he/him/his’ exclusively as Huck’s pronouns. When you have a character whose gender is broadly hinted at as being non-binary, it just makes more sense to use non-binary pronouns, like ve/vir/vis or zie/zim/zir.”
“The media is making a big fuss over this,” concluded Vernon, “but it really boils down to chucking the 3 dog-eared copies we have in the library and replacing them with the inclusive version. As soon as that’s done, everyone can declare victory and move on like the African-Americans.”
As press time, Portland’s local LGBTIQCAPGNGFNBA chapter announced its intention to sue Principal Vernon for slander for assuming the discarded books would prefer the pronoun “them”.
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My preferred pronouns are Chimeny/chim-chim/cheree
The preferred acronym is LGBQWERTY. Or LGBTWTF. Or LGBQLMNOP. Or LGBQ and sometimes Y.
Huck and Jim spent at least several days on the raft totally naked, in view of the heat. This book should be banned for its interracial homosexuality. Additionally, Huck let on that he knew the “Duke” and the “Dauphin” were phonies, con men. This makes him an ennabler of criminal activity. The book should be banned for promoting illegality. The book was written by an American author, in English: this is the MOST IMPORTANT reason it should be banned.
“…if the only place you can find the N-word these days is in a single 135-year-old book that nobody’s ever read without being threatened with an F from an English teacher…”
Someone is blissfully ignorant of modern day pop culture. A brief foray into any inner city setting would quickly rectify this mistaken belief.
So… in inner cities they read Huck Finn voluntarily?
No it’s more about their feelings for that Hinn fellow.
Much Ado About Nothing.
Maybe they should read about the mountain men in the early 1800s. They called each other the N word on a regular basis. It was not meant as a slur.
Interesting… do you have a source link on that? It’s kind of a hard Google…
Can’t imagine why. Google is usually quite…”Helpful” for people wanting information.
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