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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[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.

[wintertime]

Re: Power of Delusion

“In them is strong the power of delusion.”( Yoda)

[MDLION]

“loud, obscenity-laced, violence-infested, mindless noise called rap and hip-hop played in autos at 90 kajillion decibels that drive by by banning it and jailing those who make it.”

Dad was a military policeman during the Korean War. Had to put drunks in the drunk tank. Carpenter. Bartender. 20 years in factories. Said rap music he heard blaring at the gas station was the “filthiest” stuff he had heard in his long life. Disturbing the peace? I’m surprised more people don’t object to “F” bombs and “ho”, etc being blared from the cars of lowlifes into the ears of impressionable innocents. “Mom, what’s a motherf*****?” “Grandpa, what’s a ho?” Musical pagans I call the small brain rappers obsessed with trinkets like chains, though that’s an insult to true musicians.

[Humidston]

One of the most eye-opening books. I’ve ever read, as well as Animal Farm. Back in the 60’s. No wonder the woke hate Orwell so much!
WAKE UP, KIDS!