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Patriot Edition Of "Huckleberry Finn" Replaces N-Word With "Navy SEAL"

Huckleberry Finn

First Posted: 05/09/11 12:27 PM ET Updated: 07/09/11 06:12 AM ET

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Patriot's Edition is a new edition of Mark Twain's classic story of boyhood adventure, updated for the 21st century.

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The Iron Cage
03:15 PM on 05/10/2011
Thus the follies of public domain are exposed.
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flootz
03:53 PM on 05/09/2011
I'm hoping that this was done as something humorous. Please!
02:45 PM on 05/09/2011
Am I reading the HuffPo or the Onion?
socialtalker
this micro-bio is a great idea!
01:21 PM on 05/09/2011
that sounds hilarious. i am black and i never could get into huck finn. not so much the constant use of a slur, i just found the accents and speech so jarring i couldn't get into the story.
12:31 PM on 05/09/2011
And because he's a SEAL, Jim is also the raft.

"They's not a king and a duke, Huck. They's Salafist operatives to be terminated with extreme prejudice."
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Pigs, in cages, on antibiotics
12:18 PM on 05/09/2011
A brilliant way to highlight the utter stupidity in editing the work to begin with.
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12:12 PM on 05/09/2011
Jim was a Corpsman .