'Trigger Warnings’ In Scottish Universities For Students Of Theology

IBTimes ^ | Jan 8th 2017 | Mary Pascaline

[LouieFisk]

Students were warned during a lecture about Christ that it “contains graphic scenes of crucifixion.” The university also issued similar warnings to students of veterinary science, saying they would be working with dead animals. The school’s Contemporary Society students were warned they would discuss illness and violence.

[LouieFisk]

And so it goes....

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Scotland is the official capital of the Nanny State.

[catnipman]

“The university also issued similar warnings to students of veterinary science, saying they would be working with dead animals.”

Yeah, but did the university also warn the vet students they’d be working with sick animals as well?

[freedumb2003]

Physics students were no doubt warned they might be called upon to do math. Cooking school students warned they may be exposed to meat. Fashion Designer students warned about leather and wool.

Jeeze: will millennials SURVIVE once the boomers and Gen-Xers shuffle off?

[BBell]

Students were warned during a lecture about Christ that it “contains graphic scenes of crucifixion.” The university also issued similar warnings to students of veterinary science, saying they would be working with dead animals. The school’s Contemporary Society students were warned they would discuss illness and violence.

[dfwgator]

Students were warned during a lecture about Christ that it “contains graphic scenes of crucifixion.”

"Crucifixion? Good, out the door, line on the left, one cross each."

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Things such as crucifixion and dead animals are supposed to trigger a reaction. That reaction is part of being human.

[Scrambler Bob]

Cooking School ... may see dead meat. OH NO

[Tennessee Nana]

so that’s why that frog lay so still and let me cut it up...it was dead...

OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOEZ...

[Redcitizen]

The frog’s last words were “ It’s not easy being green.”

[BwanaNdege]

Dead Meat? The horror of that does not compare to an aspiring chef being required to Julienne a helpless zucchini!

Or Pare an apple!

Or Spiral cut a cucumber!

Oh the Huge Manatee!

[jiggyboy]

That’s a fair point, but if you didn’t know that those topics were going to come up at some point, maybe that major, or an unsupervised existence, isn’t for you.

[Svartalfiar]

Jeeze: will millennials SURVIVE once the boomers and Gen-Xers shuffle off?

Funny, I was just talking to one of the guys in another troop in our squadron this weekend. He has a handyman business, and we had a whole lunch conversation about how most young people nowadays don't know basic house maintenance or even how to change their oil. Handyman are getting more expensive because fewer people can fix more problems that most people used to do themselves. Hole in the wall - drywall patch, replacing some floor tile, fixing slats in the fence, etc etc etc. Half of these kids probably don't even own a saw or a drill, or even a hammer or screwdriver....

[freedumb2003]

>> Half of these kids probably don’t even own a saw or a drill, or even a hammer or screwdriver....<<

I have heard the same thing about cooking. Other than the few that take it on as a hobby (such as you see in cooking shows) most Millennials could not tell the difference between saute and sweat nor a paring knife from a cleaver.

SOME might be able to make spaghetti using Ragu or some other canned sauce but home cooking has become as rare as home plumbing.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Spending Sunday mornings in church and reading the New Testament would have prepared them for the crucifixion, and spending time in nature or on a farm would have prepared them for the mortality of animals. (I know that that makes me sound like an old fuddy-duddy.) I have to wonder how these potential veterinarians got to college without doing dissections. I dissected a night crawler, a grasshopper, a crawdad, a frog, a fetal pig, and a cat in high school biology. When young people are denied the life and educational experiences that can help them deal with the stuff of life, they are ruined.

I don’t know many people of college age, but I have to assume that not all of them are pathetic wienies who expect to be protected from the normal challenges of life. I wonder how normal college students feel about being infantilized by their universities.

[Svartalfiar]

I have heard the same thing about cooking. Other than the few that take it on as a hobby (such as you see in cooking shows) most Millennials could not tell the difference between saute and sweat nor a paring knife from a cleaver.

Ha yea that's no joke at all. I like to cook/grill, much cheaper and tastier. I've watched some of my roommates (3 females in their mid-20s) slowly learn to start making food at home when eating out started getting rather expensive for them. They've slowly gotten better, but almost every single meal is crock-pot food. Very rarely have I seen them do any actual cooking.