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Memento posted:If you didn't hear the glass smashing in your head then we lived very different lives in our early 20s. jesus christ how old are you
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Dr. Lunchables posted:jesus christ how old are you Roughly the same age as me apparently 
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Dr. Lunchables posted:jesus christ how old are you lol, I'm probably around average age for these forums my goon
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Soysaucebeast posted:I've been rereading The Stand because the new mini series is coming out. I'm about a fifth of the way through the book and there are SO MANY MORE slurs than I remember. Some are kinda sorta understandable, like abelist/homosexual slurs that were in common usage at the time the book was written (that I am not defending at all to be perfectly clear). But gently caress I've seen half a dozen n-words so far. I read one of his more recent short story anthologies this month, and, good news, he's moved on to an irrational hatred and sexual objectification of fat women like, across multiple stories, it was super weird
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Phosphine posted:That's so stupid. Viking isn't a slur, it was their own name. It's been misused and in certain places it might've been used as an insult, but that's like calling "American" a slur just because it has negative connotations in the rest of the world. As a Minnesotan and Norwegian I think they should change their name because they keep constantly dragging it through the mud.
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subpar anachronism posted:I read one of his more recent short story anthologies this month, and, good news, he's moved on to an irrational hatred and sexual objectification of fat women Ah I read that collection too, I think. How did you like the story where the fat women vehicular-murder-suicide themselves and their children because they're so tired of being fat and poor, but luckily some Sensitive Writers are nearby to observe the wreck and give those worthless lives meaning through crying their artistic, soulful tears The collection was fairly rotten with examples of what King thinks literary fiction is, and I found it incredibly lovely and mean.
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ponzicar posted:The casual use of slurs in older fiction is surprisingly common. The original title of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" was "Ten Little N******", which was at one point retitled to "Ten Little Indians" before. Yeah I read a very old version of huckleberry Finn one time and apart from the liberal use of the n word what actually surprised me was the little speech by huckleberry about why slaves should not run away and try to free themselves. My memory is hazy but maybe he even said he would report any that he found? Anyway ho boy it was a different time.
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Son of Rodney posted:Yeah I read a very old version of huckleberry Finn one time and apart from the liberal use of the n word what actually surprised me was the little speech by huckleberry about why slaves should not run away and try to free themselves. My memory is hazy but maybe he even said he would report any that he found? Anyway ho boy it was a different time. IIRC the book is about Huck learning that attitude is wrong, that you should help enslaved people escape even if it's not what a "good," respectable person in your society would do. Twain wasn't great by today's standards, but he was anti-slavery and anti-colonialism, and he supported labor unions and women's rights.
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I think the Agatha Christie book title is the name of a nursery rhyme also, so its still bad but not cackling madwoman mad.
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Son of Rodney posted:Yeah I read a very old version of huckleberry Finn one time and apart from the liberal use of the n word what actually surprised me was the little speech by huckleberry about why slaves should not run away and try to free themselves. My memory is hazy but maybe he even said he would report any that he found? Anyway ho boy it was a different time. That is sooo opposite to the actual text. https://rachelheldevans.com/blog/huck-finn-hell
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Mister Mind posted:That is sooo opposite to the actual text. That explains a lot honestly I'm not even sure I finished reading all of it, the English was pretty cumbersome for me as a non native. I only knew the movie or the kids version I saw as a kid on which huck helps jim escape and was a cool guy, and reading that part suddenly was incredibly confusing.
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Pwnstar posted:I think the Agatha Christie book title is the name of a nursery rhyme also, so its still bad but not cackling madwoman mad. I actually just read it (it's really good!) and I was much more struck by all the turn of the century problematic grandma comments. I totally get why they wanted to remove the slurs from the title but like you said that's pretty much just lifted from an old rhyme. If you want to talk about bigoted content there are plenty of questionable remarks inside about Jews and natives and the sort that seem much more insidious than the central poem. Fun mystery though.
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I’m not positive but I want to say they still may play that poem/song in kindergartens back home to help teach kiddos to count. I thinks that coming more from a place of ignorance/complete and lack of funding for new materials more than abject racism though. I’ll have to ask the next time we head back that way.
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Warbird posted:I’m not positive but I want to say they still may play that poem/song in kindergartens back home to help teach kiddos to count. I thinks that coming more from a place of ignorance/complete and lack of funding for new materials more than abject racism though. I’ll have to ask the next time we head back that way. One of my kids toys has that song, and according to Vtech, the song is now "Ten Little Firemen"
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canyoneer posted:One of my kids toys has that song, and according to Vtech, the song is now "Ten Little Firemen"
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Lindsey Graham married that pooch.
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Ten Little Indians was the nursery rhyme, Ten Little N-words was a stage song adapted from it that was part of a very popular black face minstrel show that toured Europe at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, which is likely where Christie got the title.
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graventy posted:As a Minnesotan and Norwegian I think they should change their name because they keep constantly dragging it through the mud. I know you're joking but, As a Swedish Swede in Sweden (  ) with an emigre family branch that landed in Minnesota, did you grow up in Norway? Because Americans calling themselves Scandinavian in this context is kinda funny 
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:I know you're joking but, As a Swedish Swede in Sweden Talk to the actual Irish about Irish Americans sometime.
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I tried last time but they keep running away? AND the boat was leaking, again
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I can't stop laughing at those legs in the last frames. He's just giving it 100%, screw proper form.
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Imagine how insulting it would be to have those clumsy motherfuckers destroy your crop.
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Trapick posted:"Ten little elves" is what they taught my daughter. I was very worried when she started singing it the first time. Doesn't really have the right number of syllables though. With the kids I work with I go for "ten little teddy bears". Keeps the metre and you can do "teddy bear toys" for the last line! Did work with someone who still did the Indians version though 
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Son of Rodney posted:That explains a lot honestly I'm not even sure I finished reading all of it, the English was pretty cumbersome for me as a non native. I only knew the movie or the kids version I saw as a kid on which huck helps jim escape and was a cool guy, and reading that part suddenly was incredibly confusing. The movie version--the one with young Elijah Wood--had Huck worrying about being smote by the hand of god for helping Jim run away. It's just less obviously satirical of the era. The book frequently has Huck telling Jim about the outside world, and making it blindingly obvious (at least to a native speaker) he doesn't know jack poo poo about jack poo poo.
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