Alex WellersteinVerified account

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 …

(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?