I had a hardcover book sitting on my shelf. Got it at a yard sale a while back. “The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction,” it was published in 1979 and most of the stories are much older.
The level of racism was pretty amazing. One story referred to a mugger as a ‘black buck’ Another was set centuries in the future and had an anthropologist keeping some ‘primitive’ people in high tech chains and cages.
Agatha Christie is probably one of the most popular writers of the 20th Century, and one of her classics is now published under the title “And Then, There Were None.”
If you’ve ever seen a movie, play, or game where a group of people are invited to a house only to be killed off one by one, you’ve seen something influenced by “And Then, There Were None”.
Generally the victims are symbolized by figurines on the mantelpiece which get gradually destroyed one by one as the murders progress, eventually leaving “none”.
The previously published title was the incredibly culturally insensitive “Ten Little Indians”, and the figurines were just that.
The original published title, in the UK, in 1939 - an era when we DID IN FACT KNOW BETTER was “Ten Little removeds”.
They did not change the title in the UK until 1985(!)
That book was translated to Finnish in 1940 with name “eikä yksikään pelastunut” (and no one survived), and it was renamed to literal translation to the ten little nwords in 1968!!! Until in 2003 they changed it back to the original
Is quoting Wikipedia now banned on Lemmy? I was under impression arsehole censoring mods here were mostly focused on removing mentions of Israeli genocide of Palestinians.
Chuds not being able to post the N word for a day — challenge level: impossible.
Like, we all knew what the book was, but it was still SO important for you to post this. It was life or death for you. Not saying slurs physically makes your skin crawl. You cannot help but be a racist sack of shit.
Got you. Imgur is now completely blocked in the UK after the “Online Safety Act”, “to protect the children”, because maybe one of the pictures hosted on it is some boobs or something?
Same problem but when I migrated from Black Ops 1 to Modern Warfare 2 or something similar - couldn’t name my class containing assault rifles “assault”
Dark Souls would do something similar with names in PvP. For the most part it wasn’t a huge deal but being a medieval fantasy game, a lot of players you’d face would be called “___ K***ht”.
Ok yeah. duh. you know its funny because I was wracking my brain for a word that had ht like that. Man so like every name with night would get hit. night blade, night terror, etc.
honestly that does not make sense to me either. wpe? you know back in my mmo days I remember we would laugh at some stuff that was and I did like to screw around putting stars in my chat.
What’s wrong with the last one? Seems like a pretty standard critique of “science” as evil destroying humanity. In Brave New World they had reservations for the savages who still had religious beliefs, and it was a touristic attraction.
I had a hardcover book sitting on my shelf. Got it at a yard sale a while back. “The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction,” it was published in 1979 and most of the stories are much older.
The level of racism was pretty amazing. One story referred to a mugger as a ‘black buck’ Another was set centuries in the future and had an anthropologist keeping some ‘primitive’ people in high tech chains and cages.
Agatha Christie is probably one of the most popular writers of the 20th Century, and one of her classics is now published under the title “And Then, There Were None.”
If you’ve ever seen a movie, play, or game where a group of people are invited to a house only to be killed off one by one, you’ve seen something influenced by “And Then, There Were None”.
Generally the victims are symbolized by figurines on the mantelpiece which get gradually destroyed one by one as the murders progress, eventually leaving “none”.
The previously published title was the incredibly culturally insensitive “Ten Little Indians”, and the figurines were just that.
The original published title, in the UK, in 1939 - an era when we DID IN FACT KNOW BETTER was “Ten Little removeds”.
They did not change the title in the UK until 1985(!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None
Worth noting that the original n-word version is the title was taken from a popular song at the time the book was published.
I point this out to demonstrate that this book title wasn’t a weird cultural aberration, it was plugging directly into popular culture of its era.
It’s even worse in French: I read it in the early 2000s in high school and the title was “10 petits n*gres”. It seems they only changed it in 2020 😬
In Hungarian, it’s still “Tíz kicsi néger”, though “néger” does not carry the same connotation in the language, if anything, it’s archaic.
You can be a mainstream politician and say it on live TV, and people will at most laugh at the old person.
Our version of the n-word is spelled the same.
That book was translated to Finnish in 1940 with name “eikä yksikään pelastunut” (and no one survived), and it was renamed to literal translation to the ten little nwords in 1968!!! Until in 2003 they changed it back to the original
Is quoting Wikipedia now banned on Lemmy? I was under impression arsehole censoring mods here were mostly focused on removing mentions of Israeli genocide of Palestinians.
so for anyone else confused…
“Content not viewable in your region”?
Now I’m more confused.
There you go. This censorship is getting ridiculous. Next time people born in Fucking, Austria won’t be able to explain where they are from.
Chuds not being able to post the N word for a day — challenge level: impossible.
Like, we all knew what the book was, but it was still SO important for you to post this. It was life or death for you. Not saying slurs physically makes your skin crawl. You cannot help but be a racist sack of shit.
I would personally send you to the gulag.
10 little subsets of the the human species with really high level of melanin in their skin.
the screenshot is hosted on imgur.com, do you generally have problems with that one? it was just a screenshot of mentioned wiki article.
Got you. Imgur is now completely blocked in the UK after the “Online Safety Act”, “to protect the children”, because maybe one of the pictures hosted on it is some boobs or something?
I had no idea. Time to search for replacement.
https://hostux.pics/
I’d love a replacement for the “Online Safety Act” :)
It’s automated. Instances can setup a list of words that will automatically get removed. Has nothing to do where it comes from.
Also, jordanlund is a mod himself, so…
I know 😁
Lemmy admins can create word filters. They replace words with removed when you use a word in the filter.
Most admins only add slurs and other nasty things. In this case we’re talking about the N word, hard R.
Bots will automatically remove certain words regardless of context.
I used to see this all the time in the old Sega game “Phantasy Star Online” where objectionable chat was replaced with “*”.
So “Nice shoes!” became “Nice s****!”
You couldn’t arrange to play a game on “Sa****ay”.
And god help you if you lived in a “ba*****t”.
Or if your name was Nasser…
Same problem but when I migrated from Black Ops 1 to Modern Warfare 2 or something similar - couldn’t name my class containing assault rifles “assault”
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I love how your experience with regex censoring comes down to Phantasy Star Online. It’s so on the money for you to use as a reference.
Truly king of the neckbeards.
Dark Souls would do something similar with names in PvP. For the most part it wasn’t a huge deal but being a medieval fantasy game, a lot of players you’d face would be called “___ K***ht”.
I really thought you were talking about Elder scrolls, and was wondering how Khajiit would be censored (“haji”?) before my dyslexia kicked out
I still can’t figure it out.
knight
k***ht
Ok yeah. duh. you know its funny because I was wracking my brain for a word that had ht like that. Man so like every name with night would get hit. night blade, night terror, etc.
Because it doesn’t make sense, DS and ER are overly censoring, my friend made a character, bowperson, it censors it to bo***rson
honestly that does not make sense to me either. wpe? you know back in my mmo days I remember we would laugh at some stuff that was and I did like to screw around putting stars in my chat.
Black Knight? Great film
I wanted to make a lore friendly character name in elden ring but they censored the word finger…
Variations on the way we used to handle the Scunthorp problems are almost always amusing for how bad they were
What’s wrong with the last one? Seems like a pretty standard critique of “science” as evil destroying humanity. In Brave New World they had reservations for the savages who still had religious beliefs, and it was a touristic attraction.