Reason TV Explores Trigger Warnings on Campus
If you read College Insurrection, you know all about trigger warnings.
I don’t normally offer my blunt opinion on this blog but I’m going to make an exception in this case.
If you need trigger warnings to discuss challenging topics, you have absolutely no business attending college. Period.
Zach Weissmueller of Reason describes the video.
Trigger Warnings, Campus Speech, and the Right to Not Be Offended
“It’s really not anyone else’s business to tell someone when they are mentally and emotionally ready to deal with things,” says Bailey Loverin, a University of Santa Barbara (UCSB) junior who authored a resolution to mandate that professors issue “trigger warnings” before presenting material that might trigger memories of past traumas in students.
Feminist and social justice blogs popularized the concept of the trigger warning, with writers encouraging each other to label posts that might trigger flashbacks to sexual assault or domestic abuse. As the popularity, and scope, of the trigger warning idea grew, some bloggers began listing potential triggers, ranging from rape and violence and suicide to snakes and needles and even “small holes.”
Trigger Warnings, Campus Speech, and the Right to Not Be Offended (Reason TV)
Comments
I need a trigger warning every time they decide to put Obama and some of the Progs on the tv. I would like a brief announcement of a-hole alert so I can change the channel quickly. Sometimes I actually have to look at him or his lap dogs and listen to lies for about 30 sec until I can flip the channel.
It actually helps that I am boycotting MSNBC but still if we are going down the crazy path of trigger alerts, I think my a-hole alert is very reasonable.