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In reply to the discussion: University of Chicago Tells Incoming Students: Don't Expect Safe Spaces or Trigger Warnings [View all]thucythucy
(8,209 posts)...why should an additional trigger warning be required?"
Out of simple common courtesy, perhaps? If I take a course on Modern American Film, and the professor decides to show the more violent scenes from, say, Clockwork Orange or Straw Dogs, why not say ahead of time, "Some of you might find some of these images of graphic rape disturbing?" You actually have a problem with that? I was just watching the BBC report on Syria, and the newscaster prefaced the story (two stories, actually) saying, "Some viewers might find these scenes disturbing." I simply don't understand what the problem with this is.
My memory of the incident was faulty. It was a fraternity chanting outside a women's dorm, but it was still pretty ghastly.
Here's the link:
http://www.salon.com/2010/10/15/yale_fraternity_pledges_chant_about_rape/
The fact is this sort of nonsense is meant to traumatize people, and I don't see why it should be tolerated.
To me, complaints about safe space and trigger warnings seem similar to complaints about "political correctness." People making the complaints often just feel entitled to be assholes, and object when people call them on it.
I don't have a "policy" since I'm not a college administrator. But I think the tone of the policy cited (and the tone of some of these responses) makes me wonder if libertarian dickishness is making inroads into our college campuses, as well as our political discourse.