Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on March 21, 2006 at 15:13:27 from 213.38.124.194 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: Political Correctness debate - Tarboard posted by Peter H on January 04, 2006 at 14:19:01:
I have a very simple view on this.
I read the books to my sons, and the older one is reading them for himself. Their is a rather attractive shade of brown. I therefore have serious troubles with sentences such as:
"Here and there, close to the shore, there were rowing boats with fishermen. But after all there was no need to notice any of these things if one did not want to, and the Swallow and her crew moved steadily southward over a desolate ocean sailed for the first time by white seamen."
(Swallows and Amazons, chapter 3 page 39 in Cape edition)
plus, of course, the word "nigger" in PD and the word "picaninny" in SW.
Some may call it "Bowdlerising". I call it necessary.