(Updated) New Edition of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ Gets PC N-Word Scrubbing, ‘Entertainment Weekly’ Okay With That

Big Hollywood  "What’s next? Blazing Saddles? Rap albums?

"You don’t update and whitewash Mark Twain, you teach Mark Twain. You have your students read the novel and then teach them the context of the times and the context of the words. Twain was no racist and the words he used were deliberate. But again, what’s most troubling isn’t one idiot publisher making a moronic decision, it’s that those like EW who should be at the head of the line protesting this are instead the primary PC Palace Guards defending it."

Reporter Trial Set For Use of “N Word” and Double Standard  "Reporter Tom Burlington files suit against the station that fired him, because, he alleges, it was acceptable for a black person to use the “n word” but not him. When illustrating the discrepancy in a staff meeting, he says in his suit, he used the word and was fired for it."

What Will the PC-Police Do When the ‘Narnia’ Films Confront Islam?  "The works of C.S. Lewis have been demonized in the past by the usual suspects on the cultural left. One of his biggest detractors is Phillip Pullman, a bitter atheist, whose books are less successful than Lewis’s, and the film based on his novel “The Golden Compass” was a box office bust here in the States. Pullman has described Lewis’s work as “racist and sexist”. While most readers in the United States are barely aware of this guy, his opinion is in line with the sort of people who run the film industry. Because of that fact alone, the producers of the Narnia films will undoubtedly face some world class peer pressure to “soften” the story when it comes time to bring the film adaptations of The Horse and his Boy (as well as the last book in the series, The Last Battle ) to life."

Pat Oliphant, whose work we sometimes appreciate.