openculture.com
>yfw it's true
Trigger warnings
Justin Smith
Colton Walker
>She did not feel safe in the class.
How are these people going to deal with the real world.
Adam Sullivan
Yes I've experienced it first hand. I signed up for a class on satire. We read A Good Man is Hard to Find, with a trigger warning regarding murder and "racist overtones". Breakfast of Champions with a warning of "depiction of an anus". And finally A Clockwork Orange with "rape and sexual conduct". Several people opted out of these and asked to read other works, which the teacher (hardly a professor) agreed that they could do.
Strangely enough there was no warning for A Modest Proposal.
Isaiah Smith
>Breakfast of Champions with a warning of "depiction of an anus".
Jesus what is this going to do to footnotes?
>And finally A Clockwork Orange with "rape and sexual conduct".
No warning about state torture? Nice.
Justin Jackson
>Strangely enough there was no warning for A Modest Proposal.
What part of eating 18th century Irish children is supposed to be triggering?
Isaiah Nguyen
Dear lord satan I hope not
Ethan Howard
Sorry you guys had pussy teachers, most lit profs I've had encourage reading tough material and being exposed to problematic depictions
Luke Watson
>Aristotle
>PHI professor points out that Aristotle is pretty sexist, likely as a result of how misogynistic Greek society was.
>But makes a bigger point about how that does not discredit his work and simply replacing "men" with "people" allows you to see his wisdom is still true.
Not bad.
Jacob Evans
All part of the plan.
Austin Gonzalez
The reaction to it is massive from the left tho.
This article had a huge influence because trigger warnings are so profoundly anti-intellectual, and because older leftist academics are not necessarily post-structuralist.
theatlantic.com