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Now Thomas Hardy gets a trigger warning: Warwick university students are told 'Far from the Madding Crowd' contains 'upsetting scenes' about the 'cruelty of nature' and 'rural life'
UK Daily Mail ^
| August 15, 2022
| Charlotte Mclaughlin
Posted on 08/15/2022 6:11:41 AM PDT by C19fan
One of Thomas Hardy's most popular novels now comes with a trigger warning after students were told it contains 'upsetting scenes' about the 'cruelty of nature' and 'rural life'. 'Far from the Madding Crowd', which depicts the brutal reality of Victorian rural life, has been slapped with a content warning by the University of Warwick.
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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Society
KEYWORDS: censorship; victorian; woke
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Supposedly the Victorians were the most emotionally repressed and squeamish generation in human history. Now the current generation in college has easily climbed to the top spot. I have read the novel and watched 2 different adaptations. /***sarcasm***/I guess a flock of sheep falling off a cliff, a dog getting shot, and a murder are too much for Generation Snowflake./***sarcasm off/
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posted on
08/15/2022 6:11:41 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
What are these clown kids doing in a university?
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posted on
08/15/2022 6:13:39 AM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: C19fan
Best that students of literature stick with safe books like Das Capital and Mein Kamph.
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posted on
08/15/2022 6:13:45 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: C19fan
Yes, but they'll roar with approval over what Father Time does in Jude the Obscure.
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posted on
08/15/2022 6:14:57 AM PDT
by
decal
(They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
To: C19fan
In this scenario, the West loses WWIII in a walk.
Are we sure the CCP isn’t running our media, schools, universities and government?
These proto-adults will never reach any type of maturity and strength.
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posted on
08/15/2022 6:15:15 AM PDT
by
OpusatFR
To: C19fan
College students should probably stick with this:
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posted on
08/15/2022 6:16:05 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
To: C19fan
Can we just show them Old Yeller and then pick up the bodies of the ones who die on the spot?
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posted on
08/15/2022 6:17:12 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil...-Churchill)
To: C19fan
I'm guessing
Bless the Beasts and Children is right out for these people. That one depicted the graphic cruelty of shooting penned animals for sport and had a teenager committing suicide at the end. I read that one in 9th grade.
Snowflakes.
To: C19fan
And so is The Catcher in the Rye. The main character gets beaten bloody by his roommate at a boarding school, then when he runs away, he crashes at a male teacher's apartment in NYC and is then molested by the teacher. He then freaks out a girl he fancies with desperate pleas to get married, IIRC.
To: C19fan
GMAFB! Do they think nature is not cruel. Do they think animals talk and dance around like in Disney movies. Rural life has no cruelty in it? I don’t suppose they can’t see Deliverance without wetting their pants.
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posted on
08/15/2022 6:22:45 AM PDT
by
ToxicMasculinity
(At this point, what difference does it make.)
To: C19fan
We are turning into the Eloi.
To: C19fan
Oh, and The Grapes of Wrath would be verboten with this crowd. It depicts an Oklahoma family traveling to California after being displaced from their farm during the Depression. In California, they suffer from malnutrition and unscrupulous landlords and bosses at an agricultural work camp, and the malnutrition is severe enough that the young mother can't properly breastfeed her baby.
To: C19fan
Geez, I hope these snowflakes never read “The Painted Bird”.
To: KarlInOhio
And that’s just Disney. How about Golding’s Lord of the Flies! Book and movie. Or Pincher Martin.
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posted on
08/15/2022 6:26:42 AM PDT
by
ToxicMasculinity
(At this point, what difference does it make.)
To: C19fan
And they would need fainting couches for Of Mice and Men. Yep, they would crap their shorts when the retarded -- uh, mentally challenged guy is shot to death at the end of the book after accidentally killing a young woman, because he was ultimately too much trouble for his friend.
To: ToxicMasculinity
Oooh! Ooooh! I forgot to mention The Hot Gates, where a bunch of white male Europeans kill a bunch of Asiatics.
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posted on
08/15/2022 6:30:11 AM PDT
by
ToxicMasculinity
(At this point, what difference does it make.)
To: ToxicMasculinity
Don't forget
Alas, Babylon, in which a Florida lawyer and playboy has to lead and discipline his community in the aftermath of a massive Soviet nuclear attack. The lawyer mandates capital punishment by hanging for certain crimes, and disturbing imagery includes a little girl taking a dump on the side of the road, as well as a boy who suffers radiation poisoning from a piece of contaminated jewelry.
As that gay Maitre'D says in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, "I weep for the future."
To: C19fan
These insaniac spoogechickens will not stop until they are stopped.
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posted on
08/15/2022 6:33:11 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
To: C19fan
Back in our parents day they were building bomb shelters; today’s parents are building safe places for their snowflakes.
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posted on
08/15/2022 6:35:47 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
To: Da Coyote
"What are these clown kids doing in a university?"I hope they never discover the horrors of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, William Faulkner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Sophocles, Aeschylus, William Shakespeare--or Euripides of all people! Not to mention Tosca, Tristan und Isolde, Faust, Der Ring der Niebelungen, The Dialogues of the Carmelites, Madama Butterfly, the St. Matthew Passion, or what happened to poor Aida! And for heaven's sake do not let them read I, Claudius or anything written by Gibbon!
What on earth would happen to them if they should?
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posted on
08/15/2022 6:44:48 AM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(Americans DESPISE the corrupt elites, their media toadies and their corruption of the US government!)
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