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posted by Fnord666 on Friday October 20 2017, @01:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the et-tu-brute? dept.

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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.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @03:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @03:09AM (#585086)

    Also see the work Hollywood has done to associate homosexual men with AIDS and transwomen with serial killers.

    Weinstein is so not a surprise.

    I think we had a story a while back about a bunch of anti-gamergaters, all sex-negative feminists, who turned out to be completely skeezy.

    It's all about power and about being an authoritarian leader on the side of righteousness.

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