The Trigger warning myth

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http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122543/trigger-warning-myth?google_editors_picks=true

 

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The thinking behind the idea that trigger warnings are a form of censorship is fundamentally illogical: those who offer warnings, at our professional discretion, about potentially triggering material are doing so precisely because we’re about to teach it! If we used trigger warnings to say, effectively, “don’t read this, it’s scary,” then there’d be no need to warn in the first place; we’d just leave the material off the syllabus.

One hundred percent my thoughts on the subject.

Trigger warnings are "censorship" in the same way that an R-rating on a movie could be considered "keeping people from watching it."