All I know is he really loved including the N-word in his books.
Average Twitter user when something doesn’t have immediate context
Of all the shit you could call Mark Twain out on, treatment of African Americans isn’t one of them. His books humanized them, despite his upbringing in a community where slavery was ordained by the church and state, and his father owning several as well. As he grew older, those views became more and more apparent.
He’s required reading material in a lot of Critical Race Theory courses.
Just don’t quote him on his view of American Indians.
Oh yeah, he treated them like subhumans.
You know that part of Huckleberry Finn where his dad goes on a racist tirade? That was actually criticism of poor whites being ok with their shit conditions simply because they could look down on black people. Twain was based as fuck for his time period.
Mark Twain’s quotes are my goto in many situations. He is based AF, indeed.
Educated 13 year old right here
Wait - are you saying people didn’t have our modern social norms back then? Who would have thought!
That’s because people sure liked to say it around the time he wrote them
