Canada is at it again, bans Dire Straights from radio

[rocketpig]

Kasz216 said:

rocketpig said:

Acevil said:

Since it seems I am one sided: CBSC has made a lot of stupid decisions in the past, because simply they think be their actions results in everyone being satisfied. Good thing they don't control the contents of books, or maybe we would have words removed out of our books. 

I'd hate to see what those morons would do to Mark Twain's catalog of novels.

This is so bloody dumb that I can't even wrap my head around it.

Well you know it's  not just Canada with Mark Twain. (depending what it looks like there.)  Some publishing company is publising a new edition without the word nigger.   Replacing it with Slave.

http://wildcat.arizona.edu/wildlife/leave-my-huck-finn-alone-1.1840392

Not banning or anything like the case about.. but dumb.

That is a lone publisher taking an out-of-copyright work and changing it because they want to do so.

Is it dumb? Yes, incredibly, if only because they're not bright enough to realize that Twain was using the word to push a social message, not because of any kind of in-built racism. His decision was very, very intentional.

Still, that's a far cry from a country banning a song from radio.