“You’re describing a situation in which you have instituted trigger warnings, but are put off by certain white, usually male, students who abuse them. You say that the people who need them never approach you about them. But doesn’t that mean they are working?” <- I found this compelling, but then....I have to say, I…

I should have been clearer. I adopted trigger warnings early on in my courses precisely because I agree with so much of what you’ve said elsewhere on this thread, especially when it comes to the fact that trauma disproportionately characterizes the experiences of students facing systematic discrimination. I specialize…

Sigh. I doubt you’ll ever be convinced by those with whom you disagree, but I’ll just say - as another college professor - that the refusal to face the visceral traumas that attend all the awful -isms is actually a deep structural feature of the -isms themselves. That is to say, bigotries have a history of being very,…