They want to ban the "N" word??

Unless they define the exact word that other things sound like, the exercise is worse than meaningless. Jurists will be able to interpret the undefined word to suit whatever they are pushing at the moment, and the main loser will be the richness of the language.

Will Tom Sawyer be banned, bleeped or beautified to remove the offensive word?

Our language is an evolved creature, and terms of abuse and derision lose their sting in the fullness of time and perspective. Editing them from the language removes the history of the word, and the salutary lesson an understanding of the history of our words holds.

You cannot erase the past, but you can gain from an insight of it.

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