Free Speech For Me - But Not For Thee: How The American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other.
Reason › Vol. 25 Nbr. 5, October 1993
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Free Speech For Me - But Not For Thee: How The American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other.
When it comes to literary censorship, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, published in 1884, is probably the American heavyweight champion. In its early days it was banned by prudes offended by its vulgarity. In 1885 the Concord, Massachusetts, public library expunged the book, calling it the "veriest trash," and in 1902 the Denver public library did likewise, decrying it as "immoral and sacrilegious." In modern times, politically correct Americans have been outraged by Twain's novel, which employs the term nigger some 300 times. New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois...
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