A British college now wants to put trigger warning notices on The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer’s seminal work of British literature written in the 1400s. And why would they do this. Because the work contains references to Christianity.
We can’t have people being exposed to “expressions of Christian faith,” you know? At least that is what the ninnies and know-nothings of Nottingham University think.
Per the College Fix:
This move has sparked debate, with critics arguing that Christian themes are inherently part of medieval literature and should be expected by students studying texts from this period.
Chaucer’s work, published in the 1400s, is “one of the most famous works of medieval literature” and social satire, according to The Becket Story, a University of York resource on medieval authors. Chaucer’s story tells of a religious pilgrimage to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket, the martyred Archbishop of Canterbury.
Emma Thorne, a UoN spokesperson, told The College Fix via email the school did not issue trigger warnings but rather “content notices” about the topics “they will be studying so they know what themes are covered and can speak to their tutors about any questions or issues beforehand.”
While Thorne did not explain the difference between trigger warnings and content notices, the UK’s Newcastle University notes that it uses the term content warning instead because it is “a gentle indication of when content is of a sensitive nature and might cause distress.”
“A trigger warning could give the impression that an action or reaction is required or inevitable; it also is more alarming in tone,” the university states.
But researchers, historians and fans of western literature are disgusted by this idiotic trigger warning.
“It is silly and shows the feeble mindedness of the secular academy,” said Owen Anderson, professor of philosophy at Arizona State University. He added, “…to say Christianity is only troubling is to purposely leave out that it is also the only source of true hope.”
This is only the latest attack on Geoffrey Chaucer, one of Britain’s most famous writers. In the past few years, leftists have been attempting to have his works sent into exile because they accuse him of being “a rapist, a racist, an anti-Semite,” not to mention being guilty in the eyes of leftists of being a white male.
Once again, what we are seeing here is the left’s ongoing, anti-western campaign to tear down and banish all of western history.
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