But on college campuses, they have lately been demanded for all sorts of other displeasing material.
Thursday, December 03, 2015
Young fogies: Modern illiberalism is led by students
But on college campuses, they have lately been demanded for all sorts of other displeasing material.
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I just can't get on board with excessive trigger warning-ing to protect students' feelings, or whatever. I have never taken a class with graphic/"sensitive" content where the professor didn't, of their own volition, say "Hey, we're about to show eighty gazillion dismembered body parts in the aftermath of a drug war, you can look away if you want." In that respect, I think trigger warnings are valid. I also think the modern trigger warning phenomenon is happening to a greater extent because of larger conversations about cultural sensitivity and being less exclusive as a society. Those are all unquestionably good things, I just think that unfortunately, a few special snowflakes have taken to asking for trigger warnings as a way to make themselves a target audience for the "cultural sensitivity" dialogue, and therefore stifling a lot of productive academic discourse. This explains why trigger warnings are more common amongst Millennials than older generations, it's just unfortunate that this increased cultural sensitivity has also been misapplied to stifle productive discourse.
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