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Orwellian Trigger Warning: 'Great literature is meant to be challenging'
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January 25, 2022
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2:59Now PlayingA British university has placed a trigger warning on George Orwell's 1984 for what it calls 'offensive content'.
But Orwell's biographer DJ Taylor says all great literature is meant to be challenging and there is an irony in the great novel's brush with censorship.
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