[News] Congratulations to the University of Northampton

[Cheeky Monkey]

Woke watch

Regards
DF

Stick to your Klu Klux Klan novels Das, plenty of hand shandy material for you there. Lynchings and the like.

Cheers
CM

 

[Pretty Plnk Fairy]

once again i have been proofed right as have never read a book apart from the coloring in ones but if they are ofensive and upsetting as i dont want nightmares its just as well so up youre's snowflake lefties

 

[Creaky]

The book should be essential reading for everyone ....

Alongside Brave New World, (Aldous Huxley) - two sides of the same coin

 

[Dr Q]

Seriously? There's a Northampton University?

 

[Eeyore]

Staff at said University have issued a trigger warning for George Orwell’s novel 1984 on the grounds that it contains ‘explicit material’ which some students may find ‘offensive and upsetting’.

It would be amusing if it weren't so sad.

Big Brother is watching YOU.

Utter non-story. It's just like a BBC 'this following programme' thingy.

I'm surprised they haven't got it on 'The Road To Wigan Pier' (rampant homophobia).

Total non-story. Unless you read the Daily Hate or watch GBeebies.

Who are the real snowflakes here ?

 

[clapham_gull]

Staff at said University have issued a trigger warning for George Orwell’s novel 1984 on the grounds that it contains ‘explicit material’ which some students may find ‘offensive and upsetting’.

It would be amusing if it weren't so sad.

Big Brother is watching YOU.

Easily offended.

 

[faoileán]

To be fair so do the starters of all of the political threads on NSC. Same crap, different day.

Yeah Nev, its best not to think or talk about politics because those in power can be 100% trusted...

 

[Wardy's twin]

Alongside Brave New World, (Aldous Huxley) - two sides of the same coin

funnily enough i was going to but that in my original comment but then thought there are a few more i could add so stopped.

 

[GT49er]

Apparently it was on a reading list that included a list of themes in each book so students could make an informed choice about whether it was something they might want to read? Not a trigger warning? Such a non-story.

Why are people making out it's leftist "wokeism" too? This is a book that's on the most challenged list for the American Library Association because it's too left-wing for some, and actually removed from study by some religious, right-wing school boards because of that same content Northampton are informing students about. Feels like a bit of an own goal if the right is trying to suggest the left is more intolerant.

Just goes to show that there are pr*ts at both extremes.

 

[hart's shirt]

Animal Farm next.

Totally detrimental to pigs and Orwell would never get away with names like Napoleon and Snowball now....

If Orwell had been reading NSC over the last 4-5 years, they'd probably be named Gammon and Snowflake.

 

[hart's shirt]

Big Brother is watching YOU.

But I don't watch Big Brother, so it's complicated...