Chait is completely correct throughout that essay, and while it would be easy to write a lengthy post about all the ways he is correct, I'll instead just say this:

Because in the sense that anything could "trigger" a reader since anything can be traumatizing for anyone based on life experience, this would require trigger warnings for everything about what appears below.

I think it shows an inability to ignore innocuous comments and words which I believe is really at the crux of political correctness. The offendended, in this case some Russians(?), simply can't let some blogger thousands of miles away use a those words because of their feels. It's insane to me that it would even…

I say this as a sufferer of PTSD, who has flashbacks: I... disagree with putting trigger warnings on academic material. It doesn't make financial sense when you think of the statistics ( how many people have PTSD? How many PTSD sufferers want or need trigger warnings? How many of the people demanding trigger warnings…

So the internet isn't real life. If the Internet isn't "real life" then isn't everything that happens on it unimportant in the grand scheme of things. A KKK group spreading hate on a website? Doesn't matter as it isn't the real world. That morally repugnant revenge porn? Doesn't matter as its online so it has no…

I enjoyed the part where the article and the commenters proved his (long-winded) point.

Look, if you got raped in a redwood forest any redwood might trigger your bad memory, if you got robbed at gunpoint while being pressed against your own house door it might make that door and the many other doors like it trigger you, if you went to college and were involved in a mass shooting any campus might trigger…

You do know those rating are not meant for adults right? they're meant for children and minors in the hopes of not subjecting them to material subjectively deemed inappropriate.

Good luck—I've ended up in these arguments where no matter what you say it's countered with a "what if. . " scenario. I usually give up and just go to my standard reply.

Like I said, Chait isn't saying he's being repressed. He's saying that what is currently going on with the left is bad for liberalism. I agree with him.

"The point is, you don't get to dictate for other people what they should have to deal with during their daily lives."

You don't think people who've had family members murdered or been robbed violently think the same way? Why not trigger warning everything? Everyone has things they don't want to think about, or are difficult for them or have experience certain psychological trauma over.

If your professor's reason for you being wrong boils down to, "because I'm a tenured professor," then, by all means, call him on his bullshit.

I haven't had an honest conversation with anybody that calls themselves a liberal in years, at least those that are my own age. Anything that resembles challenging their ideology is a form of microaggression or victim-blaming or something other travesty of being a middle-class drone in a nowhere land of nobodies…

I read your entire piece here.. it feels like you are proving his point. You, by and large, agree with most of what he is saying. The sentence you quoted "Under p.c. culture, the same idea can be expressed identically by two people but received differently depending on the race and sex of the individuals doing the…

Liberalism would be healthier if sarcastic ironic snark wasn't used to disguise reasonable propositions in need of defense as obvious conclusions that can be thrown out as you speed by on the way to your destination of belittling someone for entertainment and attention. Our historic period in the expanding circle of…

"there being no historical disenfranchisement attached to this identity category"

The real world must be so hard for you. Everyone (yes even white males!) have things about their lives that make them uncomfortable.

There's an excellent series of posts by writer Quinnae Moongazer expressing similar sentiments. Moongazer emphasizes that a culture of outrage hurts the people activist culture is supposed to be supporting, by making them scared to participate in a movement supposedly set up for their own benefit. Part 1 and Part 2,…

God this is an awful article. You put words and sentiments in his mouth while ignoring any argument he might have had.