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-====TEXT: Public colleges and universities in the United States will require trigger warnings for class content and materials.==== |
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-Competition: Trigger warnings are a restriction on speech |
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-Doll '16 |
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-Jordan Doll ~~Oberlin College Politics Department~~ (2016) Trauma and Free Speech |
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-to engage with a work because it is too triggering for some students. |
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-====Trigger warnings are key to inclusion and diversity in discussions.==== |
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-Lockhart '16 |
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-Lockhart, E. A. ~~Texas AandM University~~ (2016). Why trigger warnings are beneficial, perhaps even necessary. First Amendment Studies, 50(2), 59-69. |
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-In this essay, I have defended the practice of using trigger warnings in some |
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-that trigger warnings are an important tool to facilitate student participation and learning. |
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-====Trigger warning are key to coping with trauma and disability. The AFF dehumanizes these people and silences their struggles, perpetuating cycles of oppression.==== |
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-Holmes '16 |
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-Lindsay Holmes, August 26, 2016, "A Quick Lesson On What Trigger Warnings Actually Do," Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/university-of-chicago-trigger-warning_us_57bf16d9e4b085c1ff28176d |
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-"You will find that we expect members of our community to be engaged in |
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-pushing for warnings to speak about certain topics, which makes it competitive. |
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-====And, this dehumanization is the worst of all impacts==== |
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-Berube '97 |
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-Berube, David. Professor. English. University of South Carolina "Nanotechnological Prolongevity: The Down Side," NanoTechnology Magazine, 3:5, June-July, 1997, 1-6. http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/faculty/berube/prolong.htm. Also quoting Montagu and Madison, esteemed Scientist and Writer, professor of American Studies at University of Hawaii |
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-Assuming we are able to predict who or what are optimized humans, this entire |
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-inevitable for every epoch has evil and dehumanization is evil's most powerful weapon. |
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-====Rejection of trigger warnings in favor of exposure denies the realities of trauma.==== |
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-Lockhart '16 |
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-Lockhart, E. A. ~~Texas AandM University~~ (2016). Why trigger warnings are beneficial, perhaps even necessary. First Amendment Studies, 50(2), 59-69. |
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-Furthermore, and most importantly, a classroom is not a therapist's office and, |
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-the youth merely need to toughen up—dismisses the realities of trauma. |
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-====Reliance on counterspeech for freedom of expression is victim-blaming, forcing the burden on the oppressed.==== |
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-Greenfield '15 |
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-Kent Greenfield, March 13, 2015, "The Fraternity in Oklahoma Doesn't Deserve the Protections of Free Speech," Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/the-limits-of-free-speech/387718/ |
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-When frat boys delight in singing about lynching in Oklahoma, or loop a noose |
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-reliance on counterspeech effectively forces that very choice onto victims of hate speech. |