University of Northampton in England Puts Trigger Warning on Orwell’s 1984
on“There’s a certain irony that students are now being issued trigger warnings before reading Nineteen Eighty-Four”...
“There’s a certain irony that students are now being issued trigger warnings before reading Nineteen Eighty-Four”...
"Warning signs were placed but they kept falling down, the student paper reported."...
"a new professor will be taking over the class previously taught by Bright Sheng to 'allow for a positive learning environment'."...
"working to determine the most appropriate way to address the concerns raised while still protecting the rights of everyone involved"...
"Warning an incoming class about the absence of intellectual safe spaces is one thing; providing those spaces is another."...
"Universities are not doing their students any favours at all by insisting that they be protected from reality."...
“I deserve to be able to participate in discussions without having to deal with physical anxiety symptoms, and so does everybody else”...
"Some individuals find the topic of transgender identity a sensitive one and may not want to attend this virtual event or engage in communication that may include trigger words."...
"I think it’s better to prepare the students than to surprise them."...
"The Young Conservatives of Texas at Baylor are highly disappointed in Baylor’s conduct in this matter."...
“Protection of Transgender, Non-binary, Disabled, Working Class, and Women Students from Hatred in University Contexts”...
"some of the material includes child abuse, incest and other violent material"...
"laid out the no-nos and the replacement terms for Service Center employees at a mandatory training"...
“This is the first piece of empirical work directly examining if [trigger warnings] have their intended effects”...
"what college is all about"...
"findings were published in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry"...
“Topics Discussed May Be Uncomfortable or Controversial”...
"frames criticism of trigger warnings as a form of misogyny"...
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