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Huckleberry Finn
1974 · Film · 118 min
Part of Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn Collection
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Huckleberry Finn is a 15-year-old boy who has had a difficult relationship with his often violent father for a long time. When Dad tried to kidnap him, Huck decides to run away from home, and heads out of town on a raft. Huck is soon joined by Jim, a runaway slave who is no more eager to see his master than Huck is to see his father. As the two friends make their way down the Mississippi, they're faced with a variety of challenges and adventures.
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> (which your list is overwhelmingly composed of
"My" list? I don't have a list. If you're talking about OP's list, I disagree with that. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are not sexual books. From what I know of many of the other more recent books people have tried to ban, I absolutely would not agree the ratings would be R/NC17 for those either. Here's a list of PG13 (And PG!) movies with nudity. https://www.imdb.com/list/ls548607223/
I agree that 7 year olds should not be shown sexual content. There exists content with sexual themes which are appropriate for teenagers.
Also, the comment you replied to is downthread in an argument over whether it's a "lie" to call books that someone banned, a banned book.
It could (many films use the "nig---" word repeatedly, look no further than tarantino) and honestly it should. Racism in the USA was brutal and still continues to this day. We should not try to whitewash it because the word, of all things, offends us.
That sort of mentality is what leads people to try to ban Huckleberry Finn from school libraries, because the depiction itself offends their sensibilities, regardless of the underlying message.
Unacceptable? Offensive?
I'm not sure how I could have been any more explicit there. I explicitly said I enjoy reading news about TempleOS.
So clearly I accept them even though I don't like his racial epithets one bit. They're just one (somewhat unavoidable) facet of the whole TempleOS phenomenon.
I guess I don't understand why people selectively find it so offensive.
There's a big difference between fictional characters in movies and Huckleberry Finn (a book I love!) using slurs and a guy like Terry using slurs in earnest in a non-fiction setting.
Huckleberry Finn is a create example, actually. Huck uses the n-word freely, but he is an unreliable narrator, and Mark Twain's stories about Huck often parody the shitty racial attitudes of many white Americans at that time.