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Apparently, Dolen Perkins-Valdez sees no need for trigger warnings for society slipping into Totalitarianism, changing history, or changing the meaning of words.

A new U.S. edition of George Orwell’s 1984 now comes with a trigger warning. In a new preface to the great anti-totalitarian work, novelist Dolen Perkins-Valdez calls the novel’s protagonist Winston Smith “problematic” and warns modern readers may find his views on women “despicable.”

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