Some American publisher decided to slap this warning / disclaimer label:
This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today. Parents might wish to discuss with their children how views on race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and interpersonal relations have changed since this book was written before allowing them to read this classic work.
On a reprint copy of the United States Constitution.
Yeah, let's not discuss these ideas as ideas, but rather as a quaint manifestation of more backward times.
No wonder recent American presidents think the US Constitution is more of a suggestion than anything else.
I think that when Green Day decided to sing about the "American Idiot", they didn't realize who the real American idiots were. The rednecks aren't the problem. It's the elitists who fancy themselves book-read who are. After all, no redneck would dare do something as monumentally stupid as slapping a chronologically snobbish warning label on the US Constitution.
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