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Trigger warnings are spoiler alerts for reality. They normalize victimization. by serial malcontent 08/13/2015, 10:03pm PDT
How about everyone who had PTSD before these people and went to meetings and therapy and tried prescribed drugs and worked to rebuild their fucking lives, did they need trigger warnings that there was a wal-mart so they wouldn't check its roofline for snipers? Or did they just get their shit together, or else find a way to live that didn't expose them to bad circumstances, like working from home?

Sure, plenty of them are dead in a ditch but for them the default was to try to make things work. The response above is just a total abdication of responsibility to someone else, in hope that the people in power will administer such a system well and then you'll benefit, because it's five minutes per product, practically free! Let alone what MM said. He's probably right about that.

How do you know I won't intentionally fuck up your system to terrorize you? How do you know I won't come to your event in some fashion that maintains anonymity, like telepresence, and hold a google hangout rape victim conference where the entirety of the video content is clips from A Serbian Film? You don't, and no enforcement agency can guarantee you that it won't happen.

I really like the part about how everyone else isn't the alleged victim's therapist. The world is not said victim's therapeutic space. Making an attempt to secure it as such has bad consequences for the person in question. You know how trauma survivors live down trauma? By becoming capable of withstanding the rigors of everyday life, including unpleasant reminders of past diffficulty. The burden of securing that capacity always fell on the individual because society does not do these things well - look around a state-funded medicare nursing home and you see how well this would be handled. Or at our falling-apart roads, or our aging school system. You wanna trust a society that managed this badly to be in charge of scrubbing your world of trauma? Your best friend's world, your wife's, your little sister's?

Would you trust big brother to give trigger warnings to your kids? Let's think back to how many saturday morning cartoons rated for a tween audience we personally know were seen by the wrong age group.

That's my argument.
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Give me your arguments against trigger warnings by Dobson 08/12/2015, 7:21am PDT NEW
    Okay. by Mischief Maker 08/12/2015, 7:37am PDT NEW
        Serious replies only. NT by Bradley Svedka. 08/12/2015, 9:44am PDT NEW
            Fine. by Mischief Maker 08/12/2015, 4:52pm PDT NEW
                On exclusion from the airwaves by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/13/2015, 4:17am PDT NEW
    Well isn't this just topical. Did this article come up, because it's popular th by Rafiki 08/12/2015, 9:45am PDT NEW
        Fuck that article! by Mischief Maker 08/12/2015, 8:12pm PDT NEW
            Re: Fuck that article! by pay? MEXICO 08/12/2015, 11:14pm PDT NEW
                Re: Fuck that article! by pay? MEXICO 08/12/2015, 11:17pm PDT NEW
                Re: Fuck that article! by An employer 08/13/2015, 8:14am PDT NEW
                    ppl don't want to 'work up' bc they don't expect permanent employment by pay? MEXICO 08/13/2015, 10:56am PDT NEW
    How subjective does this get? by Worm 08/12/2015, 11:12am PDT NEW
        What Johnny 5 needs is an anchor for his huevos NT by Los Locos 08/12/2015, 2:53pm PDT NEW
    Genocide survivors have been able to discuss their ordeal without them forever NT by QED 08/12/2015, 12:01pm PDT NEW
    Re: Give me your arguments against trigger warnings by Roop 08/12/2015, 3:12pm PDT NEW
        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 NEW
    Re: Give me your arguments against trigger warnings by pay? MEXICO 08/12/2015, 11:48pm PDT NEW
    Trigger warnings are spoiler alerts for reality. They normalize victimization. by serial malcontent 08/13/2015, 10:03pm PDT NEW
        Sure, plenty of them are dead in a ditch but ... NT by best way to start a paragraph. 08/14/2015, 8:03am PDT NEW
            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 NEW
        Oh nooo, A Serbian Film NT by kitsch warning 08/14/2015, 1:45pm PDT NEW
            I would be okay with kitsch warnings NT by serial malcontent 08/14/2015, 4:45pm PDT NEW
    Re: Give me your arguments against trigger warnings by Putin 08/15/2015, 1:40pm PDT NEW
    Ideology based on "civil rights" (lol) justifies censorship with trigger warning by kate leth 08/16/2015, 7:11am PDT NEW
    The big question: What requires a warning? by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/13/2015, 9:30am PDT NEW
        Do you know what I was thinking as I read all that? by Maryland Freedman 09/13/2015, 10:09am PDT NEW
        TDarcos requires a warning. NT by A little girl. 09/13/2015, 3:55pm PDT NEW
        Why don't you have a seat right over there. by Chris Hansen 09/14/2015, 12:33am PDT NEW
    Re: Give me your arguments against trigger warnings by kate leth 09/22/2015, 7:33am PDT NEW
        Is that James Urbaniak? NT by WITTGENSTEIN 09/22/2015, 11:13am PDT NEW
 
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