(October 25, 2015 at 11:23 am)Yeauxleaux Wrote: Trigger warnings are totally ridiculous.
Guess what, you're going to run into things in life that offend you. That's life. You can't expect everyone to go out of their way to warn you, or sugar-coat what they're going to say just to please you.
This girl at work the other week had this wonderful moment about "oh I don't use foul language" because I let the word "shit" slip out. It's the way people act like we've never heard these things before, censoring swear-words like "f**k" in newspapers as though none of us can work out what that word is saying.
There is a difference between being offended and being triggered. The very least a person can do is to TRY to refrain from being judgmental of something that they don't fully understand, and to TRY to see things from the perspective of someone outside of yourself.
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