Quotes: Mark Twain Censorship Spoof ‘Hipster’ Huck

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“I think ‘hipster’ is still okay to use in 2011, but I have heard some people are offended by the ‘H-word.'”

— RICHARD GRAYSON, satirical author, on his decision to replace the “N” word with “hipster” in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in response to a Twain scholar’s serious decision to replace it with “slave” in a new edition (via Gothamist)