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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So if I've understood this convo, you do in fact give TWs and you just don't call them that as a way of avoiding pathologization?
I certainly don't give warnings about some of the broader categories that sometimes people claim shd be given TW, like "issues of privilege"
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I've literally never seen this understanding of TW. I get it exists, but it feels like critiquing PC by picking silliest examples.
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And if you want examples of TW that go well beyond the obvious, read the AAUP report. It gives many!! https://www.aaup.org/report/trigger-warnings …
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Does it? It cites an Oberlin reprt contested by fac and then some thing from another university where some students complain abt statues.
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While citing an essay from the New Republic. Am I daft? I saw almost no evidence this was widespread at all.
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What I've seen has suggested that there were a few places that tried to mandate them, but they relented: http://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Brief-Guide-to-the-Battle/237600 …
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