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University Censors George Orwell’s ‘1984’ Because It’s ‘Upsetting’

Almost as if the move were being lifted right out of George Orwell’s dystopian book, ‘1984,’ staff at the U.K.’s University of Northampton have issued “trigger warnings” on the book, saying it could be “offensive and upsetting” to some students. Orwell’s novel depicts a totalitarian state that changes definitions of words, manipulates facts and rewrites history to match the state’s propaganda, which denies free speech and even the...