Ivy League educated students. The future “leaders” of our country. We’re in big trouble.
They are not only material Luddites but intellectual Luddites as well. Maybe they should spend their time with something more suited to their intellectual level, like “Archie Comics” or “Superman”.
Columbia University students are calling on the college to provide trigger warnings
I would EXPEL every one of them immediately.
Supression of speech - and this is supposed to be a “center of enlightenment”...
Trigger? That’s a gun thingy. I thought libtards hate guns s/
Where are the ‘trigger warnings’ for Obola, or Islamic
terrorism, or ISIS, or the Treason that has brought
all Enemies of the US Constitution into the homeland?
So now we need warnings on Greek mythology??? Really??
But colleges freely and openly and brazenly push “The Vagina Monologues” without any warnings of how obscene and violent that performance is. Vagina Monologues contains a scene of female sexual assault by another female. But that’s ok apparently, because it is pushing “lesbianism”, and being “lesbian” makes you a member of an officially recognized grievance group.
These people just never shut up.
If you become emotionally or psychologically disturbed when reading fiction, you need professional help.
I can see how a graphic, nonfiction account of sexual assault would trouble a rape victim.
I can also see how college students looking to do as little as possible are attempting to avoid grappling with the classics.
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.
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.
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.
And if you’re a White Male you’re suspended even if you give a “trigger warning.”