The N-Word

Many books that contain racial slurs such as the well-known n-word had been banned because it contains offensive language. Many of those kinds of books have been edited, and had the offensive terms replaced with similar but non-offensive terms. For example, they substituted the n-word with “slave” in some of the books. I think this is a wrong thing to do, because replacing the word can change the meanings that the book wants to inform. I also think that in those kinds of books, the racial slurs are not meant to insult people, they are meant to teach people reading the book about the situation at that particular time. For example, Mark Twain uses the n-word frequently to teach us how white people treat African Americans in the past. I think it’s wrong to ban these kinds of books, because they are only meant to help us understand the horrible past, and make us believe that using those racial slurs is not good. But what if the books insulted my ethnic group? I think people nowadays won’t really get offended by words that insult an ethnic group in general, people will only get offended by words aimed directly for a specific person, for example: articles that attack a specific person.