University warns woke students that Ernest
Hemingway's classic novel Old Man and
the Sea contains graphic scenes... of FISHING
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Chris Hastings
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
2/28/2022 10:57:23 AM
It is a story of one man’s heroic struggle against the elements and often viewed as a metaphor for life itself. But Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel The Old Man And The Sea is the latest victim of today’s woke standards, with students warned that it contains ‘graphic fishing scenes’. Successive TV and film adaptations of the 1952 classic have been awarded U and PG certificates, suitable for children, but a content warning has been issued to History and Literature students at the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland, an area renowned for its fishing industry.(Snip)The content warning was revealed in documents obtained by The Mail
Reply 1 - Posted by:
marbles 2/28/2022 11:06:52 AM (No. 1085543)
Though not depicted in the story, a tree was killed to make the boat for the old man.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 2/28/2022 11:08:28 AM (No. 1085544)
Some purple haired she male must have had the vapors!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 2/28/2022 11:17:41 AM (No. 1085554)
Hmm, they should warn about or ban works by H. P. Lovecraft. The poor dears, snowflakes all, might be frightened. The Alfred Hitchcock documentary narrated by Trevor Howard about the Holocaust should never, ever be shown to crybaby college students. Teletubbies, that's what they want.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
reefdiver 2/28/2022 11:19:54 AM (No. 1085556)
Students: go into the trades and learn something useful.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 2/28/2022 11:30:36 AM (No. 1085575)
They ought to give a "boring beyond words" warning as well.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 2/28/2022 11:31:00 AM (No. 1085576)
While Ukrainian young people take assault rifles and shoulder fired anti-tank weapons to defend their country, various Brit youngsters wet their pants that someone is writing about catching a fish.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
BarryNo 2/28/2022 11:42:10 AM (No. 1085592)
They've already banned "Moby Dick", right? For graphic depictions of whaling...
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By heeding the "warnings," and not reading the books and judging for themselves, they will be making uninformed decisions, not "informed" ones as claimed.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 2/28/2022 12:27:17 PM (No. 1085638)
It really isn't hard to understand why snowflakes voted for Diaper Joe when one learns of the sensitives that gives them the frights. Magine the horror and nightmares snowflakes must endure if they read about children playing marbles!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
garyhope 2/28/2022 12:44:59 PM (No. 1085655)
So called "Fishing" is all lies and whoppers. Just a bunch of men trying to prove their masculinity by torturing poor little fishes with hooks and worms. Beer is often also involved. We need a giant "Protest" march on Washington to stop this evil ritual of lies, beer and torture. Most fisher persons are probably right wing Republicans and fascists also.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 2/28/2022 1:06:14 PM (No. 1085678)
As OP posts, "Not the Scotland of yore".
Sadly true. I have made several trips to Scotland and the wokeness is as bad as it is here in the States. I had a (non-woke) Scot tell me young peoples' greatest desire was to get a cushy government job and fat pension benefits. There are still a few hardy Scots left...farmers, craftsmen, etc. but not many.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
downnout 2/28/2022 1:20:53 PM (No. 1085703)
Do these twits realize how popular salmon fishing is in Scotland?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Krause 2/28/2022 1:58:17 PM (No. 1085751)
The students should live in that country where everything is rosy all the time.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Rich323 2/28/2022 2:48:10 PM (No. 1085792)
We need a study that says plants and fruits scream when cut and crushed or baked into food. Then the freaking liberals won't have ANYHTING to eat!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DW626 2/28/2022 5:00:24 PM (No. 1085898)
#10 is the post of the day for me. Thanks for the laughs!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/28/2022 5:51:17 PM (No. 1085957)
Meanwhile, when not in class, these same students spend their time splattering human beings all over the screen on their video games.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/28/2022 7:10:36 PM (No. 1086035)
None of the Leftist students would make good shark bait...the sharks are pretty picky.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/28/2022 8:52:41 PM (No. 1086143)
These people would really go all queazy over shooting and gutting a groundhog. Depending upon the caliber used, you may not even have a recognizable carcass left to gut.
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Still with the trigger warnings. Not the Scotland of yore, that's for sure.