{"id":1232846,"date":"2022-01-23T10:23:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T15:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1232846"},"modified":"2022-01-23T10:23:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T15:23:45","slug":"george-orwells-1984-given-trigger-warning-at-british-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-orwells-1984-given-trigger-warning-at-british-university\/","title":{"rendered":"George Orwell\u2019s 1984 Given Trigger Warning at British University"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorge-orwells-1984-given-trigger-warning-at-british-university%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1232846&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-482637682-e1642941717583-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">George Orwell\u2019s classic novel <em>1984<\/em> has been slapped with a trigger warning by a British university following concerns that students could find it&nbsp;\u201coffensive and upsetting\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Northampton has branded George Orwell\u2019s dystopian novel <em>1984<\/em> \u2014 which examines how the role of truth and facts in a society can be manipulated under authoritarian rule \u2014 with a trigger warning over supposed concerns about \u201cexplicit material\u201d within the book.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Following a Freedom of Information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10430597\/University-slaps-trigger-warning-George-Orwells-Nineteen-Eighty-Four.html\">request<\/a> from the <em>Mail on<\/em> <em>Sunday<\/em>, it was discovered that&nbsp;the English department at the University of Northampton had warned students taking the module \u2018Identity Under Construction\u2019 about Orwell\u2019s anti-totalitarianism novel as it might be upsetting or \u201coffensive\u201d to the fragile generation.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Identity Under Construction\u2019 module is <a href=\"https:\/\/searchtundra.northampton.ac.uk\/getfile.ashx?DocId=2232527541031954367&amp;tag=be842295-33fc-4433-accb-01a2b94bf462\">advertised<\/a> on the University of Northampton\u2019s website as including the study of literature and poetry through a lens of \u201cfeminism, postmodernism and postcolonialism\u201d and has a \u201cprimary focus\u201d on the \u201cconstructions of identity, around issues such as race, class, gender and sexuality\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Breitbart London, former teacher turned GB News Host <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/calvinrobinson?s=20\">Calvin Robinson<\/a> branded the trigger warning placed on 1984 as \u201cabsurd\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c<em>1984<\/em> was supposed to be a piece of fiction, but in current times it reads more like an instruction manual. There\u2019s no wonder the upper echelons of society are trying to censor it\u201d, Robinson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUniversities have lost their collective minds. One\u2019s time as a student is supposed to be a time of exploration and open debate \u2013 these days, it seems, they want to wrap everyone up in cotton wool and \u2018protect\u2019 them from different\/offensive opinions. It\u2019s absurd\u201d, he continued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Interested in literature and diversity; black women\u2019s writing, working class fiction, LGBTQ+ representation? Apply for one of our diversity studentships:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TlIaAcQmaJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/TlIaAcQmaJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 English at The University of Northampton (@EngNorthants) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EngNorthants\/status\/1471938478774657036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Orwell is not the only author to be censored at the University of Northampton. The British graphic novel <em>V For Vendetta<\/em> by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, the Samuel Beckett play <em>Endgame<\/em> and Jeanette Winterson\u2019s <em>Sexing The Cherry<\/em>, have also been found to be \u201coffensive and upsetting\u201d by the university\u2019s English department.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the 2003 novel <em>The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time<\/em> by Mark Haddon has been given a \u201cdeath of an animal, ableism and disability and offensive language\u201d trigger warning by Northampton\u2019s English department.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Alongside their \u201cabsurd\u201d woke censoring, the university <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EngNorthants\/status\/1471938478774657036?s=20\">offers<\/a> \u201cdiversity studentships\u201d in which interested individuals can apply for funding to study literature that focuses on \u201cdiversity\u201d, \u201cblack women\u2019s writing\u201d, \u201cworking-class fiction\u201d and \u201cLGBTQ+ representation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Defending the move, a spokesman for the university said: \u201cWhile it is not university policy, we may warn students of content in relation to violence, sexual violence, domestic abuse and suicide. In these circumstances, we explain to applicants as part of the recruitment process that their course will include some challenging texts. This is reinforced by tutors as they progress through their programme of studies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are aware some texts might be challenging for some students and have accounted for this when developing our courses.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The British Library Adds George Orwell, Byron, and More to Dubious List of Shame <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YQIY4lDiYo\">https:\/\/t.co\/YQIY4lDiYo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1331193595567759360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The University of Northampton is not the first British institution to attempt to censor George Orwell\u2019s work. In 2020 the British Library placed Orwell on a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/11\/24\/the-british-library-adds-george-orwell-byron-more-dubious-list-shame\/\">shame<\/a>\u201d list because one of his great-grandfathers owned slaves in the Caribbean, despite the fact that Orwell was an avid&nbsp;anti-imperialist who repeatedly called out totalitarianism in his works.<\/p>\n<p>The British Library apparently attempted to tarnish Orwell\u2019s work by labelling it as \u201cassociated with wealth obtained from enslaved people or through colonial violence\u201d. Yet, Orwell did not own any slaves himself, nor have any association with the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, which was outlawed in 1807, almost a hundred years before the British novelist was born.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Orwell\u2019s classic novel 1984 has been slapped with a trigger warning by a British university following concerns that students could find it\u00a0\u201coffensive and upsetting\u201d. 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