Adorno asked to censor prisoners’ offensive language from the Berkeley study.

Evidence

On the one hand, Adorno was excessively timid; during his proofreading of the texts of the Berkeley study he went so far as to ask William R. Morris, who had written the chapter on prisoners in San Quentin, to delete offensive expressions used in quotations from prisoners. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 446

Categorization

• SHARE: A niche, specific detail about Adorno’s editorial timidity that would matter chiefly to someone deep in Frankfurt School minutiae.
• XREF: connects to: Zeitschrift editors censored Adorno’s Marxian vocabulary to avoid appearing doctrinaire — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 355; For Adorno, destroying reified language and submitting to another language coincide — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2250; Horkheimer censored democratic language from the student study for fear of funders — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2355 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Zeitschrift editors censored Adorno’s Marxian vocabulary to avoid appearing doctrinaire — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 355; For Adorno, destroying reified language and submitting to another language coincide — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2250; Horkheimer censored democratic language from the student study for fear of funders — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2355 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• For Adorno, destroying reified language and submitting to another language coincide #complicates (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2250