According to the Harvard study, for people who have not experienced trauma, trigger warnings seem to decrease the belief in their own and others’ resilience, and increase the belief in their own and others’ post-traumatic vulnerability to developing a mental disorder, being unable to effectively regulate emotions, and generally becoming unable to function.
This is of particular concern because beliefs about one’s own post-traumatic vulnerability have a meaningful impact on post-traumatic recovery... trigger warnings may have the effect of encouraging trauma to become central to the identity of those who have experienced trauma; and this is associated with increased severity of PTSD symptoms...Employing trigger warnings may also inadvertently communicate to members of the school community that ideas and material that students find upsetting or uncomfortable is harmful to them or to others. For people who are predisposed to thinking that words have the capacity to do harm, trigger warnings serve as a threat-confirmation.
Some real intellectual giants there at Harvard.
Americans are becoming characters in a Dostoevsky novel.
This citadel, universities, of the Left must be attacked post haste. The damage it does is incalculable.
Btw thanks for wading through that sludge of educators writing for us. Horrid writing.
Ironically, in basic training - far worse “behavior” tends to sharpen the mind and improve the individual...
Bump
A disciplined child learns self-discipline and focus.
An undisciplined child learns self-gratification and is unable to deal with normal life.
The universities are turning out the latter.
The whole thing is a political scam designed to deny freedom of speech and expression to the politically incorrect and to “denormalize” the same.
Total BS, except for the lowlife snowflakes.
BE ADVISED: This is your one and only TRIGGER WARNING from me.
If you need a “safe space” after you hear what I have to say;
You are a chickensh!t, cowardly, disgusting, worthless piece of garbage; a useless maggot, the best part of you ran down your mommies leg, you pussie.
Get out of my face before I break your neck you limp dick homo piece of sh!t.
This also applies to the female SNOWFLAKES out there.
That goes out to all the SNOWFLAKES in college and society in general.
(and I was being kind)
Gosh...them there Harvard people sure are smart! I woulda never guessed that trigger warning might coddle the mind. /s
Anyone who needs a trigger warning for anything ought to be beaten on principle. Someone needs to toughen these people up somehow and a relentless pummeling is as good an idea as any.
Gosh...them there Harvard people sure are smart! I woulda never guessed that trigger warning might coddle the mind. /s
Talking about these hot-button subjects in terms of “trigger warnings” certainly is a suggestive act. One might be able to get past hot buttons, but trigger sounds like something built in, as to a gun.
Wow. A couple of academics recognize that "snowflakes" are for real. Millenials are the worse generation our country has produced, even worse than idiot boomer hippies. Adulthood and life reality is a foreign concept to these gimme-dats and crybabies. Hey, Millies, here's a "trigger" for you, you're beyond stupid and wasting your parents money in brain-washing universities.
Got problem? - go to safe place and suck your thumb. If not enough, there is always the fetal position with your blankey.
ok, so what IS a “trigger warning”?
To say fostering hypersensitive dispositions is bad for relationships?
Kudos to the obvious study, but this underscores the Left’s God complex and it’s commitment to the reinvention of humankind.
In this case, it’s “debugging” the reinvention agenda.