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Re: The most ignorant statement of the day. Legolas Send a noteboard - 21/03/2012 07:42:54 PM
The Divine Comedy is not offensive in those respects. It pretty clearly explains why Judas is where he his and why Muhammad (How the fuck do we spell his name now? I swear it changes every couple of months,)is where he is. In fact, it is more clear than the use of Nigger in Huck Finn because it actually explains what is going on in each level of hell and why the souls in that level are there.

Muhammad's name has always been spelled the same in the language in which it matters. :P But yes, as far as Roman alphabet transcriptions without any special letters or diacritical marks go, there's no beating "Muhammad", so no reason to change it again.
Deliberate, you bet. Intended to give offense? Stupid.

You may want to work on your reading skills, particularly if you're going to be calling people "ignorant" and "stupid". "The offensive content was deliberate and intended that way" doesn't necessarily mean that it was intended to give offensive; it just means that there is a deliberate and intended message, which as it happens offends modern readers. Which makes it different from incidental racism that is contained in a literary work because the work is describing people who happen to be racist - or because the connotations of a word that is used in the work changed.
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Divine Comedy is "offensive and discriminatory", says Italian NGO - 20/03/2012 07:25:08 PM 1429 Views
Duh? - 20/03/2012 07:38:41 PM 860 Views
It does kind of feel like we should know more about how it's taught in Italian schools. - 20/03/2012 07:50:36 PM 800 Views
The most ignorant statement of the day. - 21/03/2012 04:48:39 PM 1281 Views
Re: The most ignorant statement of the day. - 21/03/2012 07:42:54 PM 819 Views
Isn't the fundamental basis of Christanity mutually exclusive to Judaism and Islam? - 20/03/2012 08:33:51 PM 781 Views
That's a really good point that I hadn't considered. I agree. *NM* - 22/03/2012 09:05:00 AM 350 Views
Excellent point. - 22/03/2012 11:44:36 PM 1449 Views
I don't see why that would be the case - 23/03/2012 01:44:49 AM 836 Views
Just because someone is in Hell doesn't mean you should discriminate against them - 20/03/2012 08:23:22 PM 905 Views
Not having read any Dante is kind of hurting my ability to reply to that. - 20/03/2012 10:08:52 PM 1155 Views
Odd, considering you linked the "offending passages" - 20/03/2012 11:54:34 PM 796 Views
Yes, well, I was semi-serious with the "pretending to understand Italian". - 21/03/2012 07:58:35 PM 805 Views
The last part of Hell is Giudecca because of Judas. - 21/03/2012 10:30:36 PM 891 Views
And you don't see what's offensive about that? - 21/03/2012 11:11:16 PM 784 Views
It was only a matter of time. I wonder, when will it end? - 20/03/2012 08:42:42 PM 1156 Views
I saw that. Seems a little misguided - 21/03/2012 07:04:06 AM 801 Views
That's the understatement of the year. - 21/03/2012 01:23:14 PM 792 Views
I think that sometimes people take "politicly correct" tooooo far... *NM* - 21/03/2012 08:20:31 AM 440 Views
Dante was also anit-italian by there logic. - 21/03/2012 04:53:50 PM 935 Views
It is the nature of comedy to be offensive. - 21/03/2012 08:42:09 PM 1041 Views
Let me sum up my opinion on this as succinctly and clearly as I can: - 21/03/2012 11:50:37 PM 764 Views

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