The Peculiar Madness of Trigger Warnings
May 21, 2014 6:26 PM Subscribe
Colleges across the country this spring have been grappling with student requests for trigger warnings on classroom syllabi. The debate has left many academics fuming, saying that professors should be trusted to use common sense and that being provocative is part of their mandate. Trigger warnings, they say, suggest a certain fragility of mind that higher learning is meant to challenge, not embrace. The warnings have been widely debated in intellectual circles and largely criticized in opinion magazines, newspaper editorials and academic email lists.
This post was deleted for the following reason: There's a long open thread about this from a few weeks ago. If this is new info on top of that, maybe make it a bit clearer? -- jessamyn
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