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   From: js@phendrie.con   
      
   A way of warning someone they might feel offended is itself offensive?   
      
   ROBBY SOAVE | 6.24.2021 12:50 PM   
      
   Remember the battle over trigger warnings? These classroom devices—reminders   
   that students were about to encounter material that might upset, offend, or   
   traumatize them—were all the rage a few years ago, prompting significant   
   public   
   debate over whether professors were coddling their students.   
      
   They haven't exactly fallen out of fashion, but it seems that we hear less   
   about   
   them. Researchers have also produced numerous studies showing that they don't   
   work—in fact, they may make people even more anxious.   
      
   Brandeis University has now turned on trigger warnings as well—because the   
   word   
   trigger is, well, triggering.   
      
   "The word 'trigger' has connections to guns for many people," notes Brandeis   
   University's Prevention, Advocacy & Resource Center (PARC). "We can give the   
   same heads-up using language less connected to violence."   
      
   PARC maintains an "oppressive language list" that includes "trigger warning."   
   Also on the list is "rule of thumb," (which does not have offensive origins,   
   despite the list's assertion), "killing it," (PARC wants students to say great   
   job! instead), and "take a stab" at something.   
      
   The university does not require students and staff to cease using such   
   language,   
   it just recommends softer vocabulary. I've long made fun of universities for   
   taking such a broad view of what counts as offensive language, but the fact   
   that   
   trigger warning—a concept designed to prevent offense—has itself landed on   
   such   
   a list is fairly amusing.   
      
   https://reason.com/2021/06/24/trigger-warning-brandeis-universit   
   -violent-language/   
      
   Proggie thought and speech police are fucking morons.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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