Posted on 02/27/2022 11:18:22 AM PST by algore
It is a story of one man’s heroic struggle against the elements and often viewed as a metaphor for life itself. But Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel The Old Man And The Sea is the latest victim of today’s woke standards, with students warned that it contains ‘graphic fishing scenes’.
Successive TV and film adaptations of the 1952 classic have been awarded U and PG certificates, suitable for children, but a content warning has been issued to History and Literature students at the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland, an area renowned for its fishing industry.
Mary Dearborn, the author of Ernest Hemingway, A Biography, said: ‘This is nonsense. It blows my mind to think students might be encouraged to steer clear.
‘The world is a violent place and it is counterproductive to pretend otherwise. Much of the violence in the story is rooted in the natural world. It is the law of nature.’
Jeremy Black, emeritus professor of history at the University of Exeter, added: ‘This is particularly stupid given the dependency of the economy of the Highlands and Islands on industries such as fishing and farming.
'Many great works of literature have included references to farming, fishing, whaling, or hunting. Is the university seriously suggesting all this literature is ringed with warnings?’
The University of Highlands and Islands, made up of 13 research institutions and colleges, has issued content warnings for other classics.
Students studying Homer’s The Iliad, written in the 8th Century BC, and Beowulf, an English poem penned around 1025 AD, are warned that they contain ‘scenes of violent close combat’.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is flagged because it contains ‘violent murder and cruelty’ and students studying Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Romeo And Juliet are warned that the plays contain scenes of ‘stabbing, poison and suicide’.
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Now, let’s think of the standards (or lack thereof) that allowed such student clowns to be admitted to university.
And always remember, of all the universities in the multiverse, American ones have the lowest standards of all.
After all, they have to have some students that the Studies departments can feel superior to.
Oops, my bad.
Boycott tunafish
Someone just needs to be slapped down to the ground.
Why are these kids being turned into whining, crying, spineless, crazy, bratty, insecure, pathetic, weak punkasses who collapse to the ground clutching their blankey with their thumbs in their mouths, urine dribbling down their leg every time they hear a car backfire or get their feelings hurt?
But let’s not bring up rap lyrics, or how Hollywood loves to use violence and mayhem for sensationalism to lure the public in.
But how coincidental. I was just talking about Old man and the sea yesterday, read it. Not much liked it. Not a big Hemmingway fan but right now am reading A moveable feast which is very interesting.
Boy, Fitzgerald comes off as a real hypochondriac. I do recommend reading this book. Paris in the twenties, fascinating.
Good one.
Oh dear lord, now they are after the pescetarians. They want us all eating bugs.
Vegetables have feelings............
Give a lib a fish, feed she/her/him for a day.....
teach a lib to fish, build a safe place for she/her/him for a lifetime
When I was young and stupid warnings like this tended to be dares to my friends and I. Today the young have a different flavour of stupid running through their veins.
“weak punkasses who collapse to the ground clutching their blankey with their thumbs in their mouths, urine dribbling down their leg every time they hear a car backfire”
This is why we have to have all electric cars.
All those backfiring Gas Monsters are causing our big democrat Cities to smell like Urine
But abortion isn’t violent...
Is nothing sacred to these miserable woke a-holes?
Abortion, vote rigging...
To Kill A Mockingbird as graphic references to....GASP...killing,and *eating*,squirrels.
I fantasize locking these pussies in a theater to binge-watch News Reels from WWII.
Good one and needs to be back at the top. The simple answer to your question is the Hippies who went back to school and became socialists/marxists with their "if it feels good, do it" philosophy and then took over our colleges, plus the parents lackadaisical behavior.
I lived through the so-called "counter culture" of 60's and saw it coming. Out of curiosity, I actually visited a "commune" for a couple days. I saw those singing kumbaya with bongos or such while others tended to their assigned duties. The anger from the producers was palpable. The commune disbanded some weeks later.
Read Robert H. Bork's book, "Slouching Towards Gomorrah". Although published in 1996, he explains the devolution of our culture. He claims and I agree, it started with the Greatest Generation that produced the Hippies from the relief of WWII and economic opportunities to pursue and let their kids go wild. I was a product of such lack of parenting until I joined the Navy.
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