Surprisingly, the self labelled 'Queen of political correctness' Yasmin Alibhai-Brown today said that an American high school were wrong and stupid in banning novels by the authors Harper Lee and Mark Twain on the grounds that they contained racist terminology which marginalised and humiliated some students.
She went on to say that the words used were prevalent at the time and that this is the reason why they are important and that novels like To Kill a Mocking Bird were essential reading as they showed today's students what it felt like to be called such names and that any discomfort felt by today's students should come secondary to this.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...of-N-word.html