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There will no longer be room for contradiction: how censorship sinks its hands on culture
The sociologist of Hungarian origin Frank Furedi commented on the conception that the dominant culture today has of literature. It threatens to lead to suffocating censorship for the freedom to think and create.
Professor emeritus at the University of Kent, author of "Wasted Effort", states: «Almost imperceptibly, the act of reading literature has been medicalized and reformulated as a risk to mental health. It all happened very, very quickly».
The so-called "trigger warning" (warning before proceeding to a text) is the true macete that all shapes according to a stereotypical line of thought.
In its levelling action it places under censorship literary masterpieces such as “Ulysses” by James Joyce, “Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe, “Ivanhoe” by Walter Scott
They are quoted because “racists”; “The old man and the sea” by Hemingway instead would be “masculine” while "Gulliver’s Travels" are full of stereotypes, not to mention "1984" by George Orwell who is considered, even by professors "complacent" with the woke culture, as «offensive and upsetting». According to Furedi, who spoke in the Telegraph in recent days, «the impulse to censorship is alive and well, it will be better that they limit reading to the London telephone book».
According to the sociologist, as soon as the professors in the future have had one or two "warnings" here they will stop presenting and discussing with the students anything controversial: «gradually, there will be no more critical discussion», Furedi bitterly comments.
#furedi #surveillance #trigger-warning #sociology #kent-university #censorship
There will no longer be room for contradiction: how censorship sinks its hands on culture
The sociologist of Hungarian origin Frank Furedi commented on the conception that the dominant culture today has of literature. It threatens to lead to suffocating censorship for the freedom to think and create.
Professor emeritus at the University of Kent, author of "Wasted Effort", states: «Almost imperceptibly, the act of reading literature has been medicalized and reformulated as a risk to mental health. It all happened very, very quickly».
The so-called "trigger warning" (warning before proceeding to a text) is the true macete that all shapes according to a stereotypical line of thought.
In its levelling action it places under censorship literary masterpieces such as “Ulysses” by James Joyce, “Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe, “Ivanhoe” by Walter Scott
They are quoted because “racists”; “The old man and the sea” by Hemingway instead would be “masculine” while "Gulliver’s Travels" are full of stereotypes, not to mention "1984" by George Orwell who is considered, even by professors "complacent" with the woke culture, as «offensive and upsetting». According to Furedi, who spoke in the Telegraph in recent days, «the impulse to censorship is alive and well, it will be better that they limit reading to the London telephone book».
According to the sociologist, as soon as the professors in the future have had one or two "warnings" here they will stop presenting and discussing with the students anything controversial: «gradually, there will be no more critical discussion», Furedi bitterly comments.
#furedi #surveillance #trigger-warning #sociology #kent-university #censorship