75th Anniversary Edition of ‘1984’ Contains Trigger Warning
June 5th, 2025Via: The College Fix:
It what may be one of the great ironies of the last couple of years, the 75th anniversary edition of George Orwell’s classic “1984” comes with a trigger warning in its introduction.
Courtesy of Dolen Perkins-Valdez, who according to her website has “established herself as a pre-eminent chronicler of American historical life” and teaches literature at American University, the intro makes note that “there are no Black characters at all” in the novel.
For a “contemporary reader” such as herself, Perkins-Valdez (pictured) says this gives her “pause.” She also says a “sliver of connection” is difficult with a book that “does not speak much to race and ethnicity.”
“A pre-eminent chronicler of American historical life” who doesn’t know enough about American political, economic or social history to fully understand “1984”?
She’s a poster girl for what growing up in post-modern America does to one’s ability to think.
The trajectory of the Great Reset so far reminds me very much of Russia’s communist revolution, without the violence and very speeded up. Looks to me like we’ve entered the Stalinist stage. We all know what that was like and what came after and is here now.
“does not speak much to race and ethnicity.”
Kamala didn’t invent word salad, academia did, back when academics started talking not only to people but to the ideas in their own heads and publishing the conversations.
Schizophrenia on parade. Come to think of it, don’t wokes often act like paranoid schizophrenics, (you are out to get us!), minus the secrecy?
Schizophrenia on Parade