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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, Troll) by aristarchus on Friday October 20 2017, @05:53AM (8 children)
I remember that I used to have the mother of all disclaimer statements, let me see if I can find it. Ah, here it is! This is what all those snowflake alt-right types need to read, so they are not disappointed when no one wants to listen to them!
Copyright notice not included, for obvious rebuttal reasons.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @08:13AM (3 children)
"Void where prohibited." is contained twice.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @12:12PM
Thanks for the warning. Unfortunately it came too late for me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @12:15PM (1 child)
It's the Irish version. "To be sure, to be sure."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Friday October 20 2017, @10:32PM
And I am triggered by that old stereotype about Greeks:
Give somebody a gift horse just once, and you'll never hear the end of it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 21 2017, @02:22AM (3 children)
Funny how those liberals can just appropriate terms like "snowflake", which were coined by more conservative people, ehh?
Funny how a troll post such as this can be modded as anything other than a troll post. But, the real snowflakes such as Aristarchus need all the help they can get, don't they?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Saturday October 21 2017, @02:37AM (2 children)
I take it you are not a unique and precious individual, AC? If we heat you, will you not melt? If we troll you, will not your delicate crystalline structure crumble under the weight of cognitive dissonance? Do you enjoy gladiator movies, Jimmy? Do you have nightmares about the SJWs under your bed, the Antifa on your street, and God in his Heaven judging your malicious and mendacious self? Sorry, I forgot to give a trigger warning. God. He's a liberal, you know.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 22 2017, @06:33AM (1 child)
Which god, exactly, is a liberal, jism breath? Mephistopheles isn't a god, he's merely a fallen angel.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Sunday October 22 2017, @09:59AM
http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Best_Friends_Forever/Script [wikia.com]
And if you want the standard answer, there is only one god, and mohammed is his prophet, as well a moses, and ezechiel, and John the Baptist, but not so much any Graham crackers. And he created humans in her own image, which means giving humans free will. Liberalism is all about free will. You will have to make up your own mind. In fact, you are condemned to make up your own mind, and to take full responsibility for the consequences. Ergo, God is a liberal, since she created humans free.