The West’s Pavlik Morozovs
Take a look at this:
A Quebec talk show celebrates young children ratting out unvaccinated people to the police pic.twitter.com/mfVnirqkbn
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) January 19, 2022
Little Quebecois Pavlik Morozovs, these are. Morozov was a Soviet child of the Stalin era who became a national hero (according to the government) by turning in his father to the government for anti-Soviet activities. And now, in a western country, the media are encouraging children to rat out unvaccinated people, and to pressure them until they submit.
In other soft totalitarianism news, a university in Britain has attached trigger warnings to Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four:
As one of the greatest works in Britain’s literary canon, Nineteen Eighty-Four sounds a chilling warning about the dangers of censorship.
Now staff at the University of Northampton have issued a trigger warning for George Orwell’s novel on the grounds that it contains ‘explicit material’ which some students may find ‘offensive and upsetting’.
The advice, revealed following a Freedom of Information request by The Mail on Sunday, has infuriated critics, who say it runs contrary to the themes in the book.
More:
Yet it is one of several literary works which have been flagged up to students at Northampton who are studying a module called Identity Under Construction. They are warned that the module ‘addresses challenging issues related to violence, gender, sexuality, class, race, abuses, sexual abuse, political ideas and offensive language’.
In addition to Orwell’s book, academics identify several works in the module that have the potential to be ‘offensive and upsetting’ including the Samuel Beckett play Endgame, the graphic novel V For Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd and Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing The Cherry.
It’s happening. More and more of this stuff, every day. And most of us, we just take it, and take it. Why are young people not protesting for their freedom? Why do so many of them actually want to be told what to read, and what to think about what they’re reading?
