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Cambridge Uni students get Shakespeare trigger warnings
Shakespeare contains gore and violence that might "upset" you, Cambridge University students have been warned. The "trigger warnings" - red triangles with an exclamation mark - appeared on their English lecture timetables.
Lectures including Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus contain "discussion of sexual violence, sexual assault", the BBC's Newsnight programme has learned.
The university said the warnings were "at the lecturer's own discretion" and "not a faculty-wide policy". The lecture timetables were issued to this term's students by the university's faculty of English.
[...] Asked about the warnings, one Cambridge academic who did not wish to be named, said their "duty as educators was to prepare students for the world not protect them for three years". Prof Dennis Hayes from Derby University's education faculty said: "Once you get a few trigger warnings, lecturers will stop presenting anything that is controversial... gradually, there is no critical discussion".
Cambridge University said the English faculty "does not have a policy on trigger warnings", but added: "Some lecturers indicate that some sensitive material will be covered in a lecture... this is entirely at the lecturer's own discretion and is in no way indicative of a faculty-wide policy."
Forsooth!
Also at Cambridge News, The Guardian, and The Independent.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 20 2017, @02:34AM (6 children)
Yeah, sure, we believe you, perfessor. Just like we believe that other nutcase who claims to shit golden bricks. Now, climb into the paddy wagon, and we'll take you to your safe space, with all the nice doctors, orderlies, and soothing drugs. What's that? Oh, sure, perfessor, you can ring the little dingy bell as we ride along.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @03:15AM (4 children)
And you want to pretend you're NOT the fascist? "We'll call you nuts and throw you in a cell." Sounds more like a witch hunt, now that shit is old school!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @05:44AM (3 children)
Runaway besmirches my credentials, as suggests I am not actually a tenured full professor. Ducks off a badger's back, I always say. But as he does resemble a fascist, I am starting to believe that Runaway himself may be a persona, a mask, a pretense and a ruse, if you will. He pretends to be a redneck hillbilly who works in some kind of manufacturing environ, with "tools" and 'hardware". But the details are few and sketchy. I imagine that Runaway is not rural at all. Probably Boston. Works in a cubicle farm coding and filling out TPS reports. Knows nothing about M1911's or any other firearms, nothing about raising cattle or slopping hogs. Nothing about tilling the earth. Does not know what a two-speed differential is. He is alt-right, late 20's, early thirties, and has a dog. And his only social interaction is on the internet, possibly only on SoylentNews. So sure, Conservative Backbone of America Dude! Yee-hah! Fake dudes, I tell ya! It's all fake dudes!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @11:56AM (1 child)
You're saying there are no real men on this site?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @03:21PM
Just trolls and
FBINSA agents, really.(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday October 20 2017, @05:42PM
Well, he could work on a farm...
Maybe this one? [vanityfair.com]
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday October 20 2017, @11:58AM
Hey! The perfessor can make a bamboo car run on coconut milk.... Don't. Diss. The. Perfessor!
--Jonas Grumby
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---