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Well, this is irony beyond parody.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

If liberty means anything at all, wrote George Orwell in the original preface animal farm,

it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Recently, the University of Northampton demonstrated where they stand on this, adding a trigger

warning to another iconic Orwell book, 1984.

Now students are warned that Orwell's seminal critique of totalitarianism, censorship,

and thought control could contain material that some might find offensive and upsetting.

It just can't make this stuff up.

Look, for the record, strong evidence suggests that trigger warnings do not prevent feelings

of trauma and could even have the opposite effect of heightening emotional vulnerability

to scarier offensive content.

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