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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Unreal.
Sharks gonna shark
Fishing bad, butt f****** good.
They’d rather have books about fisting.
PETA is getting involved in literature now?
Give me a freakin’ BREAK. 🤦🏻♀️
There goes the pride in my Scottish heritage. Guess I should trash the plaque of my Coat of Arms that hangs with my Military stuff. Is nothing sacred to these miserable woke a-holes? What next...Moby Dick because he was white?
“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’”
and there are scary MONSTERS in Beowulf and the Iliad! Oh Gawd, hide your children! The violence is too much for those little minds. (s/)
“What next...Moby Dick because he was white?”
No. Because they had to kill that poor defenseless whale that did nothing nice except destroy ships. It was the fault of Ahab for being an ass and chasing that poor beautiful creature. (as told to me by a lefty back at university..really)
And we wonder why kids completely lose their minds at the slightest disappointment like Trump winning in 2016. Wait till 2024 rolls around heh heh
They should show these snowflakes videos of what gangs in Mexico do to their rivals and ask if they still support democraps and their open border insanity
I am sure glad I got an adult library card at the age of 14 back in 1961! I read many novels that had would cause a faintheart to swoon in today’s world.
Books like SPARTACUS by Howard Fast and THE GLADIATORS by Koestler.. Lots of bloody WWII novels, along with the Greek myths. H.P. Lovecraft stories, Dracula...
I had to show an ID a few years ago when I bought a DVD of an “UNRATED” Randolph Scott movie from the 1950s! Absurd!
Universities in the western world are stone cold dead.
If anyone is wanting to spend top dollar sending their kids to university, they may as well instead withdraw all their cash and drive down the road throwing it out the car window. It will have the same educational benefit for their kids but, ironically, will actually help the economy as people scurry to gather up all that cash.
The giant asteroid can’t come soon enough.
Oh, FFS. Will someone tell these vermin to FO already?
A lot of parents have to be wondering about all those Participation Trophies their 20+ year old Snowflake kid has on the shelf next to their bed in the basement. They might even question if the 7 years and $200,000+ plus for a degree in Social Organizations was worth it.
Are we to believe that these delicate young folks don’t watch any TV or movies, or play any video games?
I think this is about banishing literature. I almost hope it is, because it is disturbing to imagine that there are university students so pathetic that they would be traumatized by this book.
From now on, nature is to be represented as sunshine and puppy dogs, butterflies and rainbows, cotton candy, lollipops, happy birds chirping in green meadows, bright fluffy clouds floating dreamily, and bunny rabbits. So feel free to take some LSD and go running naked through the forest, greeting every woodland creature you see with friendly hugs.
Like when watching Netflix documentaries about brutal, horrific murders and killers and they warn about ...... smoking???
How nuts is the world today??????
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