Author Archives: John Wallenfeldt

What the Huck? | GeekDad | Wired.com

Man this pisses me off every time I hear about it.

Some jackass decided that having racial slurs in Huckleberry Finn is what is stopping people from reading it. So he’s taking the offensive words out.

This is completely missing the point. For all the silliness that might make political correctness a joke, not once have I seen an effort to whitewash the past so it won’t offend us in the here and now.

Of course, the pro-censorship conservative types are all for this. Even as they host Secession Balls and hate that the president is black, they – gasp! – don’t want anyone to be offended by the n-word in a book.

Maybe we should cut out all the genocide and rape in the Bible and see how they like it. I guess we can keep the torture of Jesus in there though. If there is anything conservatives would like, it would be torturing a Jewish guy who looks like a hippie.

The BBC had a lively discussion on the subject as well.

American farmers move to Mexico | PRI’s The World

Due to many factors, one of them being the rampant racism of our countrymen against migrant farm workers, many American farmers can’t make ends meet here in the US. Here are some pics and stories of those who have moved their farms to Mexico to go where the labor is.

Want more? The World did another story on the subject the next day.

Maybe when we stop blaming the poor for the things they have to do to survive, we might actually get to the root of the many problems we have. Unlike what most Republicans think, brown people really don’t want to cross borders illegally to get paid less than minimum wage and live stacked ten to a one bedroom apartment.