Thursday, July 20, 2017

'Trigger warnings' and the shallow insularity of campus politics - The College Fix

'Trigger warnings' and the shallow insularity of campus politics - The College Fix:
"Trigger warnings are not about ‘triggers;’ they are about the closing of the college mind
We know and have known for some time that a sizable percentage of college students are, in one form or another, hostile towards freedom of speech and freedom of expression...
Image result for 'Trigger warnings'What may be more baffling is the weird and mildly pathetic student demand that colleges and professors place “trigger warnings” on course literature...
...But the trigger warning debate isn’t really about the actual phenomenon of triggering experiences; it is, rather, about ideology masquerading as empathy.
Many college students today are notably aggressive and combative...
Antagonistic belligerence on the one hand and...intellectual cowardice on the other: this is the progressive campus playbook in a nutshell.
...Properly understood, “trigger warnings” are not about either triggers or warnings; they are about the labeling and signaling out of material that might offend the delicate sensibilities of the average campus social justice warrior, all as part of a campaign to point campus culture away from free and open inquiry and toward the closed and shallow mind of hyper-intolerant activism..."

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