NPR: "Trigger Warnings" on Free Speech in Universities.

GreatJanitor · 2014-05-21T21:13:05+00:00

Trigger warnings to alert you that the book your about to read might offend you.

1) Huck Finn was required reading when I was in high school, no one bitched.

2) You should not be able to splash a book, any book with trigger warnings and allow people to not read it if it might offend them. (See #1)

3) College is about being exposed to new people and new ideas. People can't be exposed to them when you warn people that the book they are about to read is going to be offensive to some people.

When I was in the 6th grade we were assigned to read "Treasure Island". With trigger warnings mothers could just say: "Nope, my kid will not read this book because it involves gun violence, piracy, murder, sword violence and there is a lack of female characters once they leave England according to the list of trigger warnings."

SnowyGamer · 2014-05-22T09:03:33+00:00

So someone was offended by art and now they want warning on books? Some people are just pathetic.

SHITLORDHERE · 2014-05-21T18:35:14+00:00

This is beyond ridiculous and is a horrible misuse of resources, time, energy allows SJW's (social justice warriors) and feminists to engage in fallacious actions and arguments to support ludicrous positions with no foundation in fact or reason and to try to control and manipulate the dialogue. It's logically, intellectually and factually challenged.

In 1977 the National Socialist Party of America (American Nazi Party) announced their intention to march in Skokie, where 1 in 6 residents was a holocaust survivor, wave their flag (swastikas) and wear their Nazi uniforms. Both Chicago and Skokie legally fought these marches. The US Supreme Court in June of 1977 (National Socialist Party of America et al. v. Village of Skokie Docket nos.76-1786) ruled in June of 1977 that the barring of their march and wearing the swastika was a First Amendment violation. Suffice to say, they marched. I may not agree with the message everyone has but the right to voice their opinion is absolute. The marketplace of ideas doesn't deserve "trigger warnings" nor does it merit it. Higher education is where people go to become exposed to a wide array and range of ideas, concepts and opinions enabling them to become better citizens and humans and form their own unique point of view. We don't need "feminists", social justice warriors or anyone else policing our free speech or imposing their model of what "free speech" constitutes upon us. They are promoting fascism and ridiculous, politically correct, politically inept ideology. Time for them to grow up. You don't get to control what others say merely because you find it offensive or differing from you own opinions or worldview. That's infantile.

Creighton_Beryll · 2014-05-21T18:38:50+00:00

Jonah Goldberg: "The Peculiar Madness Of Trigger Warnings"

http://preview.tinyurl.com/pu6rrc3

avantvernacular · 2014-05-22T20:42:13+00:00

You are responsible for your own emotions. Any warning or concern for hem by others is a kindness, not an obligation. I don't blame other people when I have an episode, not even if they indirectly caused it, because it's my experience, not them reminding me of it, which is the problem. I am grateful for their courtesy if they give it, but I do not demand it of them.

Title	NPR: "Trigger Warnings" on Free Speech in Universities.
Author	SHITLORDHERE
Upvotes	2
Comments	7
Date	May 21, 2014 6:33 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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