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Also, why wasn't Twain racist? Because he's a good writer? Because he's a canonical great? Because his books, from our perspective, 'subvert' racial relations? He's a writer. Writers know words. If he was British (where the word nigger only accrued its negative connotations much later) it'd be a different matter. I don't have a problem with him being a racist, per se, but I don't really think that 'oh, he wasn't a racist, so it's alright for him to say nigger' is a decent defence.
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