Alex WellersteinVerified account

...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.

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....

...That was more likely to be pushed by (a small number of) student groups, no?

I thought this take was ok: https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/opinion/sunday/why-i-use-trigger-warnings.amp.html …

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'

In which case, one should really reverse the question. What on earth is inducing such fervent opposition among the right and others?

For "others," if you mean, say, the American Association of University Professors, it is about their expansiveness: https://www.aaup.org/report/trigger-warnings …