by John Nolte, Breitbart:
The Woke Reich is adding childish, offensive, condescending trigger warnings to books written by Ernest Hemingway, a Nobel Prize winner.
“The publisher’s decision to present it as it was originally published is not intended as an endorsement of cultural representations or language contained herein,” warns Penguin Random House about two Hemingway books: the short story collection Men Without Women and The Sun Also Rises, which is widely considered one of the great novels of the 20th Century.
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Hemingway biographer Richard Bradford told the Telegraph:
The publisher’s comments would be hilarious, were they not also alarming. They state that despite reprinting the book unaltered they do not wish to endorse the ‘cultural representations or language contained herein’. This would be understandable had they brought out a new translation of Mein Kampf. They seem to imply that, because it’s a literary classic, they’re willing to take a deep breath and warn readers with delicate sensibilities that something in it might unsettle them. Scrutinize any novel or poem written at any time, and search for a passage that could create unease for persons who are obsessed with themselves, and you’ll find one. And then every publication will need to carry a warning like this, the verbal equivalent of photos of cancer ridden lungs which now decorate cigarette packets.
He concludes: “Publishers and the literary establishment as a whole now seem to be informed by a blend of stupidity and bullying regarding what readers should be allowed to think.”
Bradford’s quote about covers it, but I’m also troubled by a population that embraces being treated and coddled like over-sensitive babies with these kinds of warnings. This is a very different label than, say, the G, PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17 ratings given to movies. While plenty of people complain about that rating system, there’s no judgment attached. We are merely being told what kind of content to expect, not what to think of that content or what the Motion Picture Association thinks of that content. When Penguin Random House smugly distances itself with a “not intended as an endorsement of cultural representations or language” virtue signal, that’s a judgment; that’s a fascist, multinational corporation telling us what to think. Worse, we are being shamed should we disagree.
