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by Dobson 08/12/2015, 7:21am PDT |
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Obviously they are stupid and pointless and another laughable attempt by pussies to control what people say.
What's a good reply to stupid shit like this?
This is the only conclusion I can come to because time after time again, when challenging me on implementing trigger warnings at their events and organizations, people have failed to give me any real concrete cost to having a five second warning at the beginning of a screening or a reading or a performance. It always reaches to the same old tired abstract points: "you're destroying intellectual thought" - no, you can still have your play or lecture or whatever with the exact same content, and if the whole value of your thing relies upon people not knowing the shock value going in, I'm going to say it's a pretty shitty play in the first place; "people with PTSD need exposure theory" - good, they can use your trigger warning to figure out what level of exposure it's at, and anyway, you're not their therapist; "youth are so spoiled these days" - yes, how dare youth have the audacity to complain about being raped and having racist slurs constantly yelled at them and needing accessibility accommodations to deal with the mental health issues they've developed as a result of that. And of course people who oppose it have to resort to abstract, nonsensical dogwhistles: there's no actual logistic reason to oppose it. It costs nothing, it barely takes any time, it's basically the most benign statement you could say about something - a vague snip of description about the content! The only explanation for a lot of the tired old excuses that I encounter is that perhaps people are opposed to trigger warnings because of engrained prejudice, and they need to scramble for some kind of rationalization to cover that.
posted by Conspire at 11:25 AM on August 11 [95 favorites]
I can destroy her stupid arguments, and I despise people that set up their fake counter arguments and then want to seem intelligent for barking easily-disputed rhetoric against it, but I want someone else to go first.
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Give me your arguments against trigger warnings by Dobson 08/12/2015, 7:21am PDT
Okay. by Mischief Maker 08/12/2015, 7:37am PDT
Serious replies only. NT by Bradley Svedka. 08/12/2015, 9:44am PDT
Fine. by Mischief Maker 08/12/2015, 4:52pm PDT
On exclusion from the airwaves by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/13/2015, 4:17am PDT
Well isn't this just topical. Did this article come up, because it's popular th by Rafiki 08/12/2015, 9:45am PDT
Fuck that article! by Mischief Maker 08/12/2015, 8:12pm PDT
Re: Fuck that article! by pay? MEXICO 08/12/2015, 11:14pm PDT
Re: Fuck that article! by pay? MEXICO 08/12/2015, 11:17pm PDT
Re: Fuck that article! by An employer 08/13/2015, 8:14am PDT
ppl don't want to 'work up' bc they don't expect permanent employment by pay? MEXICO 08/13/2015, 10:56am PDT
How subjective does this get? by Worm 08/12/2015, 11:12am PDT
What Johnny 5 needs is an anchor for his huevos NT by Los Locos 08/12/2015, 2:53pm PDT
Genocide survivors have been able to discuss their ordeal without them forever NT by QED 08/12/2015, 12:01pm PDT
Re: Give me your arguments against trigger warnings by Roop 08/12/2015, 3:12pm PDT
Am I crazy, or did they both just endorse trigger warnings, albeit without the by ridiculous robot klaxon descriptor? 08/12/2015, 4:02pm PDT
Re: Give me your arguments against trigger warnings by pay? MEXICO 08/12/2015, 11:48pm PDT
Trigger warnings are spoiler alerts for reality. They normalize victimization. by serial malcontent 08/13/2015, 10:03pm PDT
Sure, plenty of them are dead in a ditch but ... NT by best way to start a paragraph. 08/14/2015, 8:03am PDT
yeah that was a poor choice. sjws get hyperbolic about the costs of trauma. gues NT by I wanted to speak to those costs 08/14/2015, 9:49am PDT
Oh nooo, A Serbian Film NT by kitsch warning 08/14/2015, 1:45pm PDT
I would be okay with kitsch warnings NT by serial malcontent 08/14/2015, 4:45pm PDT
Re: Give me your arguments against trigger warnings by Putin 08/15/2015, 1:40pm PDT
Ideology based on "civil rights" (lol) justifies censorship with trigger warning by kate leth 08/16/2015, 7:11am PDT
The big question: What requires a warning? by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/13/2015, 9:30am PDT
Do you know what I was thinking as I read all that? by Maryland Freedman 09/13/2015, 10:09am PDT
TDarcos requires a warning. NT by A little girl. 09/13/2015, 3:55pm PDT
Why don't you have a seat right over there. by Chris Hansen 09/14/2015, 12:33am PDT
Re: Give me your arguments against trigger warnings by kate leth 09/22/2015, 7:33am PDT
Is that James Urbaniak? NT by WITTGENSTEIN 09/22/2015, 11:13am PDT
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