As close to a trigger warning as I'll go: "If you are not disturbed at some point in this class, you have not been paying enough attention."
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...coddling them or treating them like infants. Honestly, before the right wing weaponized this language, I thought we all did this anyway.
the "mandatory trigger warnings" and whatnot have been real, and from the Left. Aside from being dubious pedagogy, it gives them ammunition.
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I dunno. I feel like the backlash against TW was larger than the push for them. I know no academics who think they should be mandatory....
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...That was more likely to be pushed by (a small number of) student groups, no?
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To me, the point is a rather mild one, which doesn't deserve the attacks on it. No one that I know is deploying a 'fragility narrative'
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In which case, one should really reverse the question. What on earth is inducing such fervent opposition among the right and others?
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I think we might divide up "the right and others," because their reasons are different.
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