American University Student Govt Demands Trigger Warnings in Course Syllabi

[Valin]

Legal Innsurrection:

“trigger warnings are necessary in order to make our academic spaces accessible to all students”

Aleister

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

 

The faculty at American University passed a resolution against Trigger Warnings in 2015. However, some members of the student government not only want Trigger Warnings, they want them to be mandatory.

Inside Higher Ed reports:

 

 

Pushing Trigger Warnings

 

The University of Chicago has received considerable attention for Dean John Ellison’s letter to incoming students about free speech. He warned freshmen not to expect safe spaces or trigger warnings, setting off a national debate about their value and prevalence. A different kind of debate is going on at American University, where students are demanding mandatory trigger warnings — despite the Faculty Senate’s 2015 resolution against them.

 

“There’s a difference between our students and our faculty about the necessity of trigger warnings on syllabi and the importance of centering student trauma in academic spaces,” Devontae Torriente, president of American’s student government, says in new YouTube video introducing the group’s #LetUsLearn campaign in favor of such warnings. “The fact of the matter is, trigger warnings are necessary in order to make our academic spaces accessible to all students, especially those who have experienced trauma.”

 

Torriente adds, “In doing so, we uphold [American’s] commitment to academic freedom and allow all students to participate in the exchange of ideas and discussion.”

 

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A reporting project published by American University students last semester illustrates how on campus, there’s little agreement on the definitions of terms like “safe space” or “trigger warning.”

 

 

[SrWoodchuck]

Ridiculous & dangerous. Passionately arguing your point of view with logic & persuasion, is basic to learning and living in the real world. Anything else is capitulation...and the end of a society.

 

Maybe this is tenderizing for the one-world proper population? Mommy! Billy called me piggy!

 

This is Kurt Vonnegut's short story of a society that makes intelligent & beautiful people wear a graduating scale of heavy weights or handicaps...become reality. Best & brightest? No longer available.

 

Harrison Bergeron- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

 

In the year 2081, amendments to the Constitution dictate that all Americans are fully equal and not allowed to be smarter, better-looking, or more physically able than anyone else. The Handicapper General's agents enforce the equality laws, forcing citizens to wear "handicaps": masks for those who are too beautiful, radios inside the ears of intelligent people, and heavy weights for the strong or athletic.

[Valin]

FAHRENHEIT 451 PERFECTLY PREDICTED THE LEFT MORPHING INTO INTOLERANT, CRYBULLY SISSIES:
Ed Driscoll
Feb. 28 2017

To avoid being, if you will, triggered, this society chose to become its own safe space, where critical thought and challenging ideas are outlawed simply because they make people uncomfortable. As a result, this is a society of shallow, miserable people always on the verge of a tantrum at the slightest intellectual provocation. Abortion, divorce and suicide are facts of daily life. And when it comes to avoiding these triggers and protecting this safe space, they are also capable of horrific violence. Does any of this sound familiar?”

Earlier: “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running around with lit matches.”

 

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