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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.books,net.social
Subject: Re: Banning Books and Bibles
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Date: Fri, 15-Aug-86 01:43:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 15 01:43:15 1986
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Well, so far I have gotten one message by mail and read one message on
net.books from people who have brought home to me how people could think
Twain was a racist.  It appears that I should clarify.  The cited passage in
Huck Finn was obviously a satire on the brutal and dehumanizing racist
attitudes of his day.  But some people just don't seem to be able to "get"
satire, particularly deadpan satire.  (Not a problem with me; my parents
have commented that I started to be sarcastic almost as soon as I began to
speak.)  Now I can see how the very clear anti-racism message of Huck Finn
could be so largely missed; thanks to those who have unwittingly explained
it to me.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Electronic Village Idiot
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