Danish high school teacher responds to my post about the new Orwellian foreword to 1984

Blazing Reader,

Erik, a high school teacher in Denmark, responded to my post from last Tuesday about how George Orwell's novel, 1984, now comes with a trigger warning because it neglected to virtue signal specifically about black oppression.

Here is Erik's email:

Hey John,

Just wanted to let you know that I appreciate your emails and the work that you do.

Your newsletter this time surprises me, even if I have developed some layer of BS deflection. What a crazy train!

The 1984 novel is so good and I have put it on the curriculum of my high school classes for years.

I was, however, the only English teacher among 25 who bothered to read the novel with the students. The other teachers were largely interested in gender ideology, and so they invested the school's money in those kinds of books. The 1984 books were eventually dismissed, and maybe 3 or 4 intact copies were left in the basement.

I don't work there anymore...

Regards from Denmark,

Erik

If you missed the post, you can still read it here: George Orwell's 1984 now comes with a... trigger warning.

John C.A. Manley

PS Robert Vaughan of Just Right Media also commented on the post: "How Orwellian. How ironic. Glad to see that 1984 is in the public domain (at least in some countries like Canada) where people can simply reprint it without irrational and racist forewords like that."

PPS If you missed yesterday's post with a photo of Robert and a 121-tonne Buddha in Japan, you can check it out here: A six-foot robot and a 43-foot-tall Buddha show why humans aren't all that bad after all...

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona, All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of philosophical fiction that are "so completely engaging that you find yourself alternately laughing, gasping, hanging on for dear life." Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber.