(January 11, 2017 at 1:40 pm)pool the great Wrote: I'd hardly call opposing this ridiculous culture of trigger warnings hatred. God. Keep this up and in 2 years you're going to be called a bigot and other trendy words if you don't support this terrible cancer of a culture. I just can't put my head around people needing these safe spaces and this trigger warnings. I mean, in the highly unlikely event where someone talks about rape in an event advertised as for discussion of ice-cream flavors -you can just get up and leave the damn place you entitled assholes.you have legs, get up and walk out instead of ruining the experience for the other 100,000 people interested in the subject you damn snowflake. Don't just sit there expecting everyone to coddle you. C'mon. Imagine the amount of entitlement if one outright refuses to do any sort of introspection and expects - no demands - the environment to cater to their feeble feelings and glass skin. Grow up you're not 12 hell even 12 year olds with their lollipops are more gangsta than these idiots hahaha
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Plus, there's a huge threat to free speech. Example: you can't talk about boobies at work Richie! You didn't put a damn trigger warning for that shit! Oh okay Felicia, I'll put on a trigger warning sign. Everybody else: holy shit that company has a trigger warning for boobies what kind of perverts work there?? (forcing people to force language policing and limit free speech. Fuck that man.
This is exactly the point. You're not likely to encounter a safe space or a trigger warning, ever. You clearly don't run in that kind of circle. Most of the examples of this shit come up in ethics or sociology courses, and they are for the discussion of the topic. There is no threat to free speech, you couldn't talk about boobies at work to begin with, pool. You sound just like these moron Trump supporters who don't like the backlash from their racist tweets. Free speech means the government cannot sanction or imprison you based on the things you say, not that people cannot have a reaction and make you feel stupid for saying stupid shit.
These things are such a rarity, they are just reported on like they are a pandemic. I am back in college for two years now. I go to the biggest college in the state of Tennessee, and I have yet to even hear about a safe space or seen a trigger warning. It isn't common, nor is it a culture that is spreading. It is a swing of the pendulum. Sometimes the pendulum swings too far, but it never stays that way.
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