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I read the original 'Maus' and then a version with the 'offensive' parts removed from a school library.
The original's raw honesty about the Holocaust hit way harder than the cleaned-up version, which felt like it was trying to hide the very history it was supposed to teach. Has anyone else seen a book where the edits completely changed its point?
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uma_nelson3mo ago
Honestly, sometimes people get too worked up about edits. It's just a book in a school library, not the only copy in the world. Maybe the cleaned up version gets more kids to actually read it first. The point still gets across, just with less harsh details. Seems like making a big deal over nothing when the original is easy to find anywhere else.
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wren_carr29d ago
Nah, the harsh language is what makes you feel the racism, not just understand it.
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My friend's kid had to read a cleaned up Huck Finn for class. Missing all the rough language made the story's point about racism way less powerful. Felt like the lesson got lost when they took out the hard parts.
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