In my Creative Arts degree I completed a couple of years ago, there was precisely one instance of someone requesting a trigger warning or something similar: it was after we, as a class, watched the documentary Capturing The Friedmans.

I’ll throw my hat in this ring. Hopefully someone will un-grey me.

I’ll chime in from the flip side: I’m a current grad student at a mid-sized public university in the Deep South. I’ve been asked twice in the past six months by an acquaintance of mine (a man who just so happens to exclusively get his news from OANN) how many times my professors have extolled the virtues of socialism…

That’s basically what I remember from college. I graduated in 2006, but despite the constant hand-wringing about social flux, I suspect the changes in university culture have mostly been technological rather than ideological. Most of the people in my LAS classes were liberals, a few of them were conservatives, and the…

This is the correct take.

I see alot of Trigger/Content Warning captions amongst higher ed professionals in the facebook groups even for things I personally wouldn’t have thought to use them on, but it’s just a blip before a post. If people are this butthurt over trigger warnings then they really are the embodiment of privilege

There’s also the entire issue with bad faith arguments.

I’ve been teaching/TA-ing at the college level for the past 6 years, and I’ve received precisely one trigger-warning request (which was reasonable), zero demands to create a safe space, and zero complaints from conservative students who felt that their “free speech” was being stifled. And yes, I did have openly…

Given that this stuff is everywhere, it’s a weak argument—the marketplace of ideas is sorting itself out, just not in the direction Prager and Carolla would like.

poor tree.

I see a lot of people being like “I’m not usually scared by this stuff, I was only scared of [insert book/movie/podcast/creepypasta here] because I watched it at home alone with the lights off” and I’m like... yeah? That’s how you’re supposed to consume horror. You have to set the mood, the vibe, and give it the…

As is my custom with every new subreddit I take a gander at, I did a cursory review of top posts of all time.

Check out this commercial from Japan.

82D airborne infantry... our attitude towards virtually everything is basically, “so fucking what?”

Viet Nam was fought to sell helicopters. WWII was fought to kill Nazis.

Ignorant perspective? Unless you are prepared to claim that the documentary is a fake or that I imagined Haditha or anything else, I’m pretty sure I’ve been apprised of what I need to know. Especially when you, yourself, use terms like “psychotic,” “raised to hate,” “jingoistic indoctrination,” and “heightened levels…

Nope. Just not glorifying your job. 

Sure. Go ahead. Do you honestly think I’m going to disagree? We’re a country of fucking assholes.

You: Go F yourself and the moral high ground you rode in on.

Hard... but not impossible! #radicalcenterism