libs on facebook are unhinged over UChicago's anti-safe space policy
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Date: August 28th, 2016 4:59 PM Author: Plum Meetinghouse
guy posted a link to story on UChicago and said bravo! Libs' vilification immediately followed. One actually claims college campuses are more dangerous than Syria. see, eg.
http://i.imgur.com/cf5eEYJ.png?1
http://i.imgur.com/RQdWLjO.png?1
I. CAN'T. EVEN.
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Date: August 28th, 2016 5:15 PM Author: walnut wonderful circlehead
I think the problem with "safe spaces" is like so many lib theories they involve only a minimal amount of thinking.
I understand the argument that people who were raped have suffered enough and it might trigger bad feelings to hear about rape. If there was any evidence that it put people in physical danger or something similar I could understand a nationwide push to develop trigger warnings.
But it seems more reasonable that getting triggered about a past traumatic event is a natural response to trauma, and is maybe even part of the healing process. To act like it is this mythical thing just makes everyone live in fear.
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Date: August 28th, 2016 5:16 PM Author: jet startling lodge
not the most poorly written or exaggerated response i've ever seen, but reveals how inflated their number of "victims" is and how extreme their idea of interacting with these people has become.
my roommate in college got called up multiple times in the guard because of 9/11 and did time in Iraq. i know he encountered some stressful situations. that doesn't mean that I kept the TV off around him or knocked before i entered our apartment. but i also didn't forward him links to firefight footage or airstrikes either.
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Date: August 29th, 2016 1:46 PM Author: rose home
"so many of my peers were raped. Male and female."
LOL WTF?
How are college campuses RAPE ZONES these days with men and women just being raped everywhere nonstop?
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Date: August 29th, 2016 1:58 PM Author: obsidian nursing home
I think the crux of why trigger warnings are bad is this:
They undermine the seriousness of the subject.
What if, for instance, testable material is deemed a potential trigger? In a class on, say, The Holocaust, it would be almost impossible to avoid this. Would the student get to opt out of the exam on the basis of their PTSD, or write a modified exam? If so, to what extent has the academic validity of their grade been compromised?
So if the subjects that contain 'triggering' material are serious at all, and their content crucial to understanding the subject, then the PTSD people need to be told beforehand what they're getting into.
I actually think 'trigger warnings' on ENTIRE CLASSES makes more sense, than trigger warnings on content in a class. I could see a school maybe warning kids that, "this class has some disturbing stuff in the multimedia presentations, take at your own risk." That would be not-unreasonable. But letting kids opt out of in-class content on the basis of 'triggers' raises a really uncomfortable dilemma: either a) they CAN understand the course completely, 100%, to the fullest, without taking in the 'triggering' content, in which case the prof is just inserting mentally traumatizing content for no good reason; or b) they CAN'T, and academic standards are being compromised just so students with PTSD can take a highly-edited, watered-down version of a course and get credit for it.
I'll illustrate this with an extreme: consider medical school without potentially triggering content. I have no doubt that dead corpses could be a trigger for many war vets. Do they get to skip the autopsy curriculum? Do they still get to be called doctors taking this incomplete, dissection-free version of med school?
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