Ask HN: Where to publish a critical work with potentially offensive content
by bryanrasmussen on Hacker News.
I have a publication on Medium https://ift.tt/BmPRVoN where I publish some critical works, some poetry, some science fiction, humour etc. I have been pushing around writing a piece that might end up being quite long on Mark Twain and Racism, as it pertains to Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, and Pudd’nhead Wilson. And of course in writing this there are some well known racial slurs (and some antiquated, unfamiliar ones) that will have to be quoted and referred to, which I expect would probably end up getting my account automatically banned. The article will be showing Huckleberry Finn and Pudd’nhead Wilson as anti-racist works, so don’t suggest any actually pro-racism sites. I suppose this is an argument for hosting one’s own blog, but I do have a lot on my plate already. So just is there a platform for this kind of thing where one won’t run into algorithmic banning – or moderation by people not overly familiar with American English literature who might misinterpret what they read?