Alex WellersteinVerified account

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?

I certainly don't give warnings about some of the broader categories that sometimes people claim shd be given TW, like "issues of privilege"

I've literally never seen this understanding of TW. I get it exists, but it feels like critiquing PC by picking silliest examples.

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 …