a warning to supposedly-sensitive students that some of the material might challenge long-cherished beliefs
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Give me an example of someone saying they wanted a trigger warning, and that request hurting somone.
No one actually excludes anyone from safe spaces. If a white person or man shows up to a POC or female space, people will just address that person (if they make atendees uncomfortable) and/or move to a new location on a new day if that persons continued presence is a problem.
THANK YOU.
This is too considerate and reasonable for words. All the stars.
Ok, but this has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
Racist whites think their hacknyed racist opinions have value and then complain about the afam/asian studies departments even existing.
Are you white? I’m really asking. Because most people of color and other minoirities have to “discuss” core aspects of who are are and how we are discriminated against 24/7, and whether you believe it or not, it’s emotionally exhausting. As educational as it might be for you, until colleges start paying their…
That student is going to do that regardless of trigger warnings. So what’s your point? The only person your penalizing with your way of thinking are those who are legitimately triggered.
Well, in the real world when someone peppers me with racist insults at work, I have recourse with HR. Unfortuantely the same isn’t true in class at most institutions, and UofC wants to make sure that continues to be the case.
Literally no one said that a safe space is an entire campus. U of C is saying the entire campus is not going to “condone” safe spaces.
Right. This is where a trigger warning would be useful. Since no one is obviously going to read the content of every assigned piece, and beacuse the content is not obvious from a title or unit subject, then a “trigger warning” on a sylabus would help a prospective student do exactly what you reccomend.
the recent issue at Columbia where a professor was banned from teaching Ovid because of trigger warnings.
As a 31 year old millenial, you’re full of shit.
Exactly. White rich men walk around in a perpetual safe space, because the world they’ve created echoes their views. They have no idea what it means to be bombarded by “opposing views” all day — especially ones that assult the core of your humanity.
A trigger warning hurts literally no one. It doesn’t abridge speach. It’s just a preface. You can roll your eyes, but maybe you should ask yourself why they bother you so much. Does it make you too uncomfortable, when you read about how the newest video game you love has a rape scene, to be reminded that readers of…
In real life, everyone is ok with safe spaces they agree with (e.g. block holocaust deniers) but not with things that make them feel squicky (e.g. block professors promoting racist/transphobic ideologies).
Honestly we aren’t even that young. I blame the older generation for infantalizing folks in their early 30s. It’s absurd. We’re just adults. It’s not our fault they can’t seem to remember what the college aged generation is actually called.
You are very wrong. This kind of mentality is no more wrong that the folks who didn’t understand how the sun rose and set so they fabricated god. You need to get more comfortable with not understanding things.