![]() ![]() The course overlords have also seen fit to put the literary equivalent of yellow tape around Beckett’s Endgame, which apparently might also cause offence and upset. To be fair, it isn’t only the soothsayer of modern authoritarianism whose work has been soiled with a trigger warning on the Northampton course ‘Identity Under Construction’. People over the age of majority being told by university officials that a novel about the dangerous, dehumanising consequences of censorship might offend them… we’re only three weeks into 2022 and already we have the most 2022 story we’re likely to get. These are adults we’re talking about, by the way. Students are warned that it contains ‘explicit material’ that they might find ‘offensive and upsetting’. Orwell’s classic book has been slapped with a trigger warning at the University of Northampton. ![]() Yes, woke hysteria has now reached such a crescendo that even the 20th century’s most famous warning about tyranny is falling victim to its tyrannous habits. ![]()
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