Posted on 11/29/2021 9:44:14 AM PST by C19fan
Even the least well-read could probably surmise that Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped involves an abduction, but academic chiefs have nonetheless cautioned undergraduates that the 19th Century classic 'contains depictions of murder, death, family betrayal and kidnapping'.
The so-called trigger warning was issued by the University of Aberdeen, which also told students that Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar – written more than 400 years ago and set in 44 BC – features 'sexist attitudes' and has a plot that 'centres on a murder'.
Meanwhile, a warning about Charles Dickens's French Revolution novel A Tale Of Two Cities, which famously features the guillotine, says that it 'contains scenes of violence, execution and death'.
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Anything written by a follower of: Marx, Lenin, Stalin,
Pol Pot, Fidel Castro, Che, Mao, etc.
Warning: this book contains instances of free speech that is unmonitored by authorities. Feel free to burn it if you experience any dizziness or anger as a result.
I’m alerting everyone that “The Never Ending Story,” mercifully does end.
The more proper question is which work of literature would not receive a trigger warning.
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A bedtime children’s book like “Goodnight Moon”?
“Red Riding Hood”
Trigger warning: Scenes of graphic violence, bloodshed, animal death.
Lord help us all
It’s hard to imagine the shock of someone who spends hours playing Grand Theft Auto and viewing House Of A Thousand Corpses when he or she runs into Macbeth. Did you know they kill somebody in it?
Well I guess if it contained pornography instead that would be fine.
But no problems or warnings about books depicting sodomy and lauding homosexual relationships in middle schools.
Why not also change the title of the novel?
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Wow. 🤦♂️😒😑🙄
Kidnapped and Catriona were among my favorite books as a young man.
It didn’t seem to trigger anything in me except interest in a well told story.
Wait until they go to the opera.
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