I love it when I read something incredibly racist but have no idea because the stereotypes and slurs they’re using don’t even fucking exist anymore.
Well I expect that of you, you Brass Ankled Dago Kraut!
Louic CK had a bit on why he reads Tom Sawyer and not Huck Finn to his children:
CW: Slurs are quoted https://youtube.com/watch?v=VmeRYo10acg
Lol. “Look… These boys are racist.”
Robinson Crusoe was one of my favorites as a kid. Tried rereading that recently and the whole reason he was ever on a ship that could get wrecked in the first place was he wanted to buy slaves.
I haven’t read it since high school but Defoe prose was absolute tedium for me back then.
I started rereading Catch-22 for the first time in like 20 years (it’s so funny), and was a little taken aback to see the n-word in the very first chapter.
It was, of course, being used in a satirical way that mocked a racist character from Texas. But even then I was like whoa. Came out of nowhere.
Important distinction of course.
There is a difference between how Twain or Heller uses it vs. someone just unironically dropping N bombs.
Oh for sure. However, in this case, that particular joke didn’t really land with me and I think it could have gone without it.
My favorite historical racial slur is from south America. They’d call one tribe rubber people becasue theyd make rubber
“That part”… I’m pretty sure N-Word Jim is present the whole book.
started reading Ulysses by James Joyce, and YUP
Well can you tell me of a better way of knowing it is classic literature? Usually if I want racist slurs I have to go to my parents house.
No racial slurs in Don Quixote.
no slurs or it uses antiquated slurs we have forgotten about? or slurs we excuse because were common back them?
I counted 160 “moro” in Don Quixote.
“Moro” is still commonly used and not considered a slur. It can be used incorrectly to refer to any muslin person but is not offensive in itself.
it 100% is a slur, only people who disagree are the ones using them
Nor anything by Victor Hugo to my recollection.
Sexist tho.
Interestingly, Don Quixote - very feminist. Cervantes clearly believed women should be able to decide for themselves.
Cervantes also handled a fake sequel to Don Quixote better than any author ever has or ever will.
A fake Part II was released so Cervantes stole part of the plot and includes it in his own Part II which is broadly considered one of the best sequels of all time (to be clear that’s almost always included in the modern form of the novel)
Not just that, in his second part Don Quixote reads the fake sequel and shits all over it criticizing bad language and factual errors.
“I will weave together a beautiful philosophy that shows that all men are equal and then lazily scribble in why people with dark skin are the exception.”
Written by a person who obviously has read zero literary classics.
Ummmm…
Huckleberry Finn The Merchant of Venice Robinson Crusoe Canterbury Tales Gone With The Wind Both Dracula and Lord of the Rings have some troubling points Pretty much anything by HP Lovecraft
Even Don Quixote has slurs in it.
Are you sure you’ve been reading classic literature?
And it’s written in archaic so every sentence is a horrible pain to read.
Depends on the author. Some of the writing styles are anachronistic due to their age and can be a bit of a slog, but that’s often compounded by the authors being insufferable twats who felt the need to make their prose “flowery” and verbose assuming that everyone would be as in love with their words as they were with themselves.
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