About Trigger Warnings

First, a Tweet from Obaid Omer:

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Yes, indeed. If we’re going to abuse 10-year olds by telling them that they are oppressors (or victims of their oppressor-classmates), shouldn’t we at least warn them first? And yes, many schools are abusing children like this.

I have no way of proving this, but I am imagining a group of woke young adults sitting around in the privacy of someone’s apartment talking about sex, violence, rape, you-name-it. I doubt that any of them give each other “trigger warnings” in private. That demand is reserved for professors in public spaces only. Even though the “trigger warning” is supposedly about the topic, not the person mentioning the topic.

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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