The N-Word

I swear word is only a swear word if we say it is one. Sometimes I feel like if we don’t put so much emphasis on words being bad, people will loose interest in using them. When offensive languages are used in literature for the purpose of informing rather than to offend anyone, they should be acceptable. The authors were just trying to portray what real life was back then. They did not intend to offend anyone. Take Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn for example, the n-words are only used in dialogues, as a portrayal of the way people talked back then. Changing the n-word into ‘slave’ takes away from the ideas of the story. If the intensions are not to offend, I do not see the purposed of banning the books. Even if those words were words that insult me, I think I would still be able to accept it. However, some literature may really attack a certain group of people. If the author had the intension of offending anyone, those works may be more controversial. Those works, I believe should be banned because the author’s intension for using offensive language is not to inform, but to attack and hurt people.