Trigger Warning Tag

Cornell Rejects Student Demands for ‘Trigger Warnings’ Before Class Discussions

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 04, 2023 5 Comments

“The Student General Assembly Resolution is a gross attempt at speech and academic content policing which infantilizes students, relies on faulty claims that academic content worsens PTSD, and violates the academic freedom of faculty”...

Cornell Student Assemby Votes Unanimously in Favor of Requiring Trigger Warnings on ‘Traumatic’ Course Content

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 01, 2023 12 Comments

“It is troubling how little academic freedom is regarded by many of the students here at Cornell”...

Some British Universities Putting Trigger Warnings on Shakespeare Plays and Greek Tragedies

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 29, 2023 11 Comments

"Tragedy is a genre obsessed with violence and suffering, often of a sexual or graphic kind, and so some of the content might be triggering for some students"...

University of Warwick in England Gives Classic Novel ‘Ivanhoe’ a Trigger Warning

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 03, 2023 2 Comments

“The work includes passages depicting black slaves, who leave medieval characters ‘appalled,’ as well as Arab Muslim captives”...

University in the UK Puts Trigger Warning on 800 Year-Old Religious Text

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 04, 2022 5 Comments

"Staff also flagged 'outdated' language in the 1970s translation from Latin"...

University of Northampton in England Puts Trigger Warning on Orwell’s 1984

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 02, 2022 4 Comments

“There’s a certain irony that students are now being issued trigger warnings before reading Nineteen Eighty-Four”...

Student Senate at U. Maryland Condemns Pro-Life Display and Says it Needs More Trigger Warnings

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 30, 2021 4 Comments

"Warning signs were placed but they kept falling down, the student paper reported."...

University of Michigan Students Accuse Prof. Of Racism For Screening Olivier’s ‘Othello’ In Class

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 10, 2021 33 Comments

"a new professor will be taking over the class previously taught by Bright Sheng to 'allow for a positive learning environment'."...

Sonoma State University Students Wanted Professor Fired for Refusing to Use Trigger Warnings

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 04, 2021 6 Comments

"working to determine the most appropriate way to address the concerns raised while still protecting the rights of everyone involved"...

Iowa State Prof Says Trigger Warnings More Necessary Now Than Ever

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 27, 2021 10 Comments

"Warning an incoming class about the absence of intellectual safe spaces is one thing; providing those spaces is another."...

Lecturers at UK’s University of Reading Told to Give Students Trigger Warnings on Sensitive Topics

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 06, 2021 5 Comments

"Universities are not doing their students any favours at all by insisting that they be protected from reality."...

Student Govt. at University of Washington Wants ‘Content Warnings’ in Classes

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 04, 2021 3 Comments

“I deserve to be able to participate in discussions without having to deal with physical anxiety symptoms, and so does everybody else”...

College Warns Students and Offers Psychological Help Ahead of Conservative Speaker’s Event on Transgenderism

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 04, 2021 1 Comment

"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."...

Students at Rutgers Get Trigger Warnings in Classics and History Course

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 24, 2021 4 Comments

"I think it’s better to prepare the students than to surprise them."...

Baylor University Put Trigger Warning on 9/11 American Flag Tribute

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 13, 2020 4 Comments

"The Young Conservatives of Texas at Baylor are highly disappointed in Baylor’s conduct in this matter."...

Oxford University Students Want Reading Lists to Come With Trigger Warnings

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 04, 2020 9 Comments

“Protection of Transgender, Non-binary, Disabled, Working Class, and Women Students from Hatred in University Contexts”...

University in Scotland Issues Trigger Warnings Before Lessons About Grimm Fairy Tales

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 27, 2019 13 Comments

"some of the material includes child abuse, incest and other violent material"...

Michigan State Issues Insane Recommendation on Trigger Warnings

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 18, 2019 7 Comments

"laid out the no-nos and the replacement terms for Service Center employees at a mandatory training"...

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