Alex WellersteinVerified account

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 …

(I might also add: I worry that this is part of a "customer is always right" approach to education that further delegitimizes expertise.)

I dunno, man. In your model, a victim of sexual assault needs to bring you a note for 'accommodation'? Just have a line in the syllabus.

Getting out of assignments (or having me do make-ups) is an accommodation. I'd rather it be handled through the channels already in place.

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?

To put it another way: we should always be helping our students frame the readings, but not b/c we are afraid of offending/disturbing them.

I'm honestly on the same page as the earlier questioner. I think you do what most of us who use TW do. We're quibbling about words.