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university slaps a TRIGGER warning on George Orwell's 1984 as it contains 'explicit material' which some students may find 'offensive and upsetting'
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Posted on 01/22/2022 7:51:16 PM PST by algore

As one of the greatest works in Britain’s literary canon, Nineteen Eighty-Four sounds a chilling warning about the dangers of censorship.

Now staff at the University of Northampton have issued a trigger warning for George Orwell’s novel on the grounds that it contains ‘explicit material’ which some students may find ‘offensive and upsetting’.

The advice, revealed following a Freedom of Information request by The Mail on Sunday, has infuriated critics, who say it runs contrary to the themes in the book.

Published in 1949, Orwell’s dystopian story – set in a totalitarian state which persecutes individual thinking – gave the world phrases such as ‘Big Brother’, ‘Newspeak’ and ‘thought police’.

Its plot centres on Winston Smith, a government employee who is arrested and tortured over an illicit love affair, but it also makes powerful points about what can happen to a society that doesn’t cherish academic freedoms or its own history.

Yet it is one of several literary works which have been flagged up to students at Northampton who are studying a module called Identity Under Construction. They are warned that the module ‘addresses challenging issues related to violence, gender, sexuality, class, race, abuses, sexual abuse, political ideas and offensive language’.

In addition to Orwell’s book, academics identify several works in the module that have the potential to be ‘offensive and upsetting’ including the Samuel Beckett play Endgame, the graphic novel V For Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd and Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing The Cherry.

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To: algore

Later


21 posted on 01/22/2022 8:15:57 PM PST by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: algore

This is as good as an endorsement of the book. Even better.


22 posted on 01/22/2022 8:16:05 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: algore

Future generations are just screwed.


23 posted on 01/22/2022 8:16:55 PM PST by bigbob
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To: algore

But homosexual and porn books are OK in the school library.


24 posted on 01/22/2022 8:17:15 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: algore

The Snowflakes are going to have to learn to live with “offensiveness” and stuff that “upsets” their little weenies.


25 posted on 01/22/2022 8:18:07 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: EvilCapitalist
You can bet that you not be able to find any Ayn Rand books at the so-called uni.
26 posted on 01/22/2022 8:18:36 PM PST by Aussiebabe
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To: algore

For something that will really trigger them, they should try reading Aesop’s Fables.

There’s nothing more upsetting to a leftist than a morality tale, even if three year olds used to be able to handle the material back in pre-post-modernist days.


27 posted on 01/22/2022 8:20:26 PM PST by cockroach_magoo
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To: algore

28 posted on 01/22/2022 8:20:54 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: algore

Doesn’t matter to me, as long as young people READ the book.

They’ll probably recognize a lot of the ‘stuff’ in it.


29 posted on 01/22/2022 8:21:04 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: BenLurkin

That is my long time tag line…


30 posted on 01/22/2022 8:21:27 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: crusty old prospector
Don't U be diss'n my pretty putty tat


31 posted on 01/22/2022 8:22:46 PM PST by algore
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To: algore

Trigger what exactly?

Aren’t books supposed to cause reactions?


32 posted on 01/22/2022 8:26:36 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: algore

33 posted on 01/22/2022 8:28:34 PM PST by 444Flyer (John 3, Revelation 20, Joshua 24:15, 1 Kings 18:16-39, Pick a side...)
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To: algore

So what are they going to use for their “How To” manual now?


34 posted on 01/22/2022 8:30:00 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: algore

That’s quite the kitty cat. What do you feed it? Chipmunks and ferrets?


35 posted on 01/22/2022 8:30:13 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: DannyTN

Zackly.


36 posted on 01/22/2022 8:54:14 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: algore

Surprised by my Packers’ surprise loss tonight. Since it was almost 11:30, I decided to watch the start of a show I almost never watch anymore, Saturday Night Live. Opening sketched mocked Laura Ingraham, Ted Cruz, Novak Djokovic, and Donald Trump. When a Democrat President just bumbled through a two hour press conference, hoping for maybe only a small Russian invasion of Ukraine, is that comedy censorship when you don’t mock him royally during your opening? Orwell, Calling Orwell, did Big Brother not allow himself to be mocked by the comedians in 1984, I can’t remember from my reading of it? Were there only government comedians in 1984 like SNL, Colbert and Kimmel?


37 posted on 01/22/2022 8:55:31 PM PST by MDLION (J"Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
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To: algore
"Yet it is one of several literary works which have been flagged up to students at Northampton who are studying a module called Identity Under Construction. They are warned that the module ‘addresses challenging issues related to violence, gender, sexuality, class, race, abuses, sexual abuse, political ideas and offensive language’."


Sometimes it is hard to understand exactly what the Brits are trying to say :/
38 posted on 01/22/2022 8:56:17 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: algore

He was only 47 ?


39 posted on 01/22/2022 9:08:06 PM PST by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: algore

Required reading in my high school back in the day.

Books that are not considered offensive now are books describing Gay Sex.


40 posted on 01/22/2022 9:08:34 PM PST by Revel
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