Posted on 05/14/2015 7:53:40 AM PDT by rightistight
Columbia University students are calling on the college to provide trigger warnings when Roman or Greek mythology is read or assigned in class.
In an op-ed published in Columbia’s student newspaper, the Columbia Daily Spectator, students Kai Johnson, Tanika Lynch, Elizabeth Monroe, and Tracey Wang called for warnings in a piece titled, “Our identities matter in Core classrooms.” They explained they are writing on behalf of the Multicultural Affairs Advisory Board, or MAAB.
According to the authors, a survivor of sexual assault was asked to read Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” in particular the myths of Persephone and Daphne. In the tales, rape is depicted.
The authors write that the student was “triggered” and thus “completely disengaged from the class discussion as a means of self-preservation.” After reading about the mythology, “She did not feel safe in the class.”
It is time to have warnings on Western literature, the authors then assert, because they are classist, racist, and offensive. “Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” is a fixture of Lit Hum, but like so many texts in the Western canon, it contains triggering and offensive material that marginalizes student identities in the classroom,” they explain. “These texts, wrought with histories and narratives of exclusion and oppression, can be difficult to read and discuss as a survivor, a person of color, or a student from a low-income background.”
The fact of the matter is that “students need to feel safe in the classroom, and that requires a learning environment that recognizes the multiplicity of their identities,” the authors write.
To do that, MAAB has made several demands: “First, we proposed that the center issue a letter to faculty about potential trigger warnings and suggestions for how to support triggered students.”
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Political Correctness has taught them that a person has a right NOT to be offended in the least.
Therefore, the slightest feeling that is uncomfortable is unacceptable.
People don’t know how to deal with offensive material any longer, and the bar defining offensive is simultaeously being raised and lowered.
Example: “Homosexual Anal Sex” - not offensive in the least, and you are a bigot if you think it is.
“God bless you” - Highly offensive and you are a religious fanatic if you say it.
People need to get over it. Life is hard. You have no right NOT to be offended. You just need to learn how to deal with being offended appropriately.
Thicken up your skin. Grow some balls.
If you are offended by “balls”, please reread this post.
Ping to the above. we were one post apart.
That is the ultimate goal.
and the use of gender specific pronouns!
I have one libtard neighbor who absolutely hates gender specific pronouns - consequently, I use then whenever I talk to him.
What the . . . . Do they find calculus “triggering” and offensive? After all it was developed by a white European and it certainly triggered anxiety in me?
I feel her pain, I do not feel safe in my own country due to the governments continued efforts to steal everything I have and take away my means to protect myself from them and the vermin they champion.
Gee, these highly educated idiots must not be able to go to the theatre, an opera, a museum or countless other places where culture is on display. Heaven forbid they even find themselves in front of a magazine rack at Barnes & Noble.
Poor little dears must be sheltered and protected.
Postmodernists reject the notion that the purpose of education is primarily to train a child's cognitive capacity for reason in order to produce an adult capable of functioning independently in the world. That view of education is replaced with the view that education is to take and essentially indeterminate being and give it a social identity. Education's method of molding is linguistic and so the language to be used is that which will create a human being sensitive to its racial,sexual, and class identity, to injustice, and to oppression.
Education should emphasize works not in the canon, it should focus on the achievements of non-whites, females, and the poor.It should highlight the historical crimes of whites, males, and the rich.It teaches that all truth is relative and all cultures are equally deserving of respect, except for Western culture which is condemned and criticized.Also, all values are subjective, but racism, sexism, classism and homophobia are absolutely and universally evil.
Superman has violent content that could harm their delicate sensibilities.
"See Spot. See Spot run..."
Aaaaaaaaagh!
Some one offered Monica A MILLION BUCKS for that dress!
Okay. I see how that works.
(/s of course!)
Does that mean that sensitive women attorneys cannot read about rape case law without trigger warnings, or that female classics students, professors, and scholars will have to have triggers? What a bunch of blarney, and, as usual, it took people with a liberal-progressive mind to come up with it.
“Working at Disneyland might be too stressful for some of them.”
Just plain working might be too stressful for most of them.
And if you’re a White Male you’re suspended even if you give a “trigger warning.”
That is classic! Thanks for posting it!
There are plenty of such “kids” in our neighborhood. Work is too stressful and inconvenient for them so they live in mommy’s basement and only do part time jobs when they need some extra cash. Real work and responsibility are not they’re thing.
I would be only a bit concerned about those kids if they are 20; if they are 25-30, and have not acquired marketable skills and are still in essence day workers looking for spending money, then they better hope their parents leave them the house and a nice little bequest.
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