University puts TRIGGER WARNING on Huckleberry Finn
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He should learn how to shave properly before proclaiming wokism.
This 'trigger warning' idea sounds like it's being kind. But isn't it just weakening people in the end?
After all, not everything that we encounter in life will have 'trigger warnings'. And we're going to run into things that we find upsetting.
It's better that we learn how to deal with that in a healthy way.
Surely, a mention on the cover that this book is set in the US Southern states during slavery is enough. And also that Huck and Jim are friends.
Look at any of these Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer stories and these two young men are far from being racist. Jim is just another companion.in their adventures. Nowhere do they treat him as a slave or a lesser being.
Mark Twain makes his attitude against slavery and racism quite clear.
Universities are digging their own graves. They have become irrelevant.
Anyone who requires a trigger warning has no place in a university
I’ve started buying my kids every book on the list with a trigger warning .
Keeping sanity in this woke nonsensical world.
There should be a trigger warning on Exeter Uni. Obviously wasting students fees.
What next? A trigger warning in a film or documentary about beheadings in centuries past?
The only trigger warning to be applied should be to the University itself.
Where is all this crap going??. It’s ok for a rapper to chant the N word loads of time and call women hoes etc. But we are softly treading for no reason.
Bloody hell, I read that at about age 10 – thankfully 40 years ago
Certainly don’t need some scruffy, overweight know it all self righteous student to protect me
Shave your stupid chin strap and don't have wires hanging from you have it or someone might get the wrong impression from you
Universities should put trigger warnings on universities!!!!
Presumably none of these delicate snowflakes watch television after nine at night? And whatever you do don't let them read any of Andrew Lang's fairy stories, not to mention Hans Christian Anderson and the brothers Grimm – kidnapping and eating children etc.
I’ve just finished an old book where the word coconut was spelt ‘cocoanut’. Not gonna lie – had to look it up – thought it was a typo. Turns out, that’s how you used to spell coconut… that’s a spelling we (society) don’t use anymore. Maybe they should put a trigger warning sticker on that book too in case people get offended 🙄
I read that book and many more in my teens and had zero requirement for trigger warnings or safe spaces. Adults should not need protection from written words – no matter what they’ve ‘been through’. Why doesn’t someone tell these people to GROW UP?
They want to destroy our history and anything to do with the past
I love how stupidity excuses context
We can appreciate the pros and cons for trigger warnings, however we do feel that in this instance it is a step too far.
Classic books, films, art are only going to be sought and consumed by those we actually want a particular item. In these cases there is no need for warnings.
This is an example where the current woke fashion is to impose their greater ideology on anything and everything. Jess is right it is a step too far.
They are treating even themselves as children because they may feel offended. They don't want anyone to use their own judgement.
Uh Huck Finn was not the black man escaping slavery.
Of course he has a name like jude and a beard.
What a generation of namby pamby losers we are producing.
Book burning Nazi's
Oh good! I was gonna slit my wrists when I'm forced to read it.