Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales has been hit with a trigger warning by a leading university over “expressions of Christian faith”, it has emerged.
Why not “Warning, contains fart jokes”?
Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales has been hit with a trigger warning by a leading university over “expressions of Christian faith”, it has emerged.
Why not “Warning, contains fart jokes”?
What about the anti Semitic bits ?
Branding on the arse is more wince making.
More Roman Catholic faith than Christian faith I’d have said. But only to tease Steve.
Am I the only person who finds the expression “trigger warning” conjures up images of guns and therefore itself needs a trigger warning, and so on recursively, ad nauseam?
@dearieme:
I see “content warning” more often than “trigger warning” on social media. Which immediately makes me think “may settle in transit” like it said on cornflake packets.
As the C of E now seems to have faith in nothing but climate change and “social justice”, it’s probably just so students aren’t shocked by what Christian faith used to be.
– What about the anti Semitic bits ?
Contemporaneously, that comes under the heading of “expressions of Christian faith”.
Universities have other faiths now, and the one in Nottingham is particularly full of foreign.
Withdraw University status and all public funding from this institution, sack all personnel responsible and revoke their pension rights, without any compo.
Repeat for any body that currently employs, or has employed, Richard Murphy.
The fart jokes are the only reason they tolerate it.
I do like the way the University of Leeds issued warnings about Tarzan and Robinson Crusoe.
Heh… Wait until the poor students come across the actual penmanship of worthies like Luther and Calvin… 😀
I agree with some of the commentariat here though.
Which department issued the warning, and why does it still exist?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/31/anglo-saxon-cancelled-to-decolonise-university-courses/
Coincidentally I linked to this earlier story on today’s thread about the worrying threat to black studies.
Taken alongside this juvenile response to the admittedly hideously white Canterbury Tales (I’d be surprised if anyone in the faculty has even attempted to read it) it appears that something truly dark is going on at Nottingham.
Incidentally since when was it a “leading university” as the author claims?
@Grikath
And then wait until the poor darlings learn that Luther and Calvin’s ideas are essentially the basis of Progressivism.
John: « Incidentally since when was it a “leading university” as the author claims? ¸
Since the Poly became Nottingham Trent perhaps?
@Norman. Never heard quite that interpretation, but it would explain the extraordinary, a cynic might even say: excessive, blind faith and excessive zeal in concepts and ideas that have no proof of having any base in reality displayed by the Progressives.
Come to think of it…. There’s a definite flavour of sackcloth-and-ash self-flagellation within that mindset as well.
You may well be right there…
Anti semitism no longer needs a trigger warning as it has become politically correct.
@ John
I don’t know when Nottingham became a leading university: I can only tell you that it was *more than 61 years ago* (when I was faced to look at the possibility that I might not get into Oxford so had to look at what alternatives there were).
DM – “So theek,” quod he, “ful wel koude I thee quite,
With bleryng of a proud milleres ye,
If that me liste speke of ribaudye.
But ik am oold; me list not pley for age;
Gras tyme is doon; my fodder is now forage;
This white top writeth myne olde yeris;
Myn herte is also mowled as myne heris.
BF
Those would be the first answer to so many of the problems the U.K. today. Sack person with loss of pension rights. Bar any institution employing Richard Murphy from awarding degrees. Remove charitable status from
Any organisation affiliated with him.