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There is a lot of talk on the net these days about microagressions, and it's good netiquette to post trigger warnings before discussing sensitive topics. What's good in online forums isn't necessarily appropriate in-person, especially on University campuses. The cover article for September's edition of The Atlantic magazine discusses the harm that students' requests for trigger warnings on course content and accusations of microagression are causing, stifling open conversation on campuses across America. The authors also suggest that these student behaviors are actively causing harm to the students.
Avoiding trigger topics, instead of assisting those who have suffered traumas, perpetuates and enhances the pathology of the phobias they hope not to trigger. The hunt for microagression creates in the students cognitive distortions that are usually treated with cognitive behavioral therapy. The authors are calling this "The Coddling of the American Mind", and suggest it will create a generation of graduates unable to cope with the world after graduation.
The authors also appeared on the Diane Rehm show, on a segment called "The New Political Correctness: Why Some Fear It's Ruining American Education". Far from trying to shut down the conversation about race relations, the authors are trying to re-open it.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 01 2015, @04:02PM
I've mentioned my motorcycle a few times. When I fall down, I get back up, straddle the damned thing, and ride.
I've never mentioned horses here before, but when a horse throws my dumb ass off, I get back up, straddle the beast, and ride.
The dumbass rednecks I know are the same way. They fall, they get back up, and go on with whatever business they are about. If they get their ass beat in the bar on Saturday night, they crawl home, bandage themselves up, work the next week, then take their dumb asses back to the bar for another ass whipping. (Not me, I quite that nonsense more than thirty years ago!)
Triggers? You got triggers? Let me trip the damned thing - I just don't give a damn about your triggers. If you're that sensitive, you need to have your psycho-babble doctor put you in a padded room for awhile.
Whatever happened to Darwin's theories? Survival of the fittest. If you ain't fit, it's not my worry. No, there is no need for you to procreate before you leap off this mortal coil.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @04:22PM
> I've never mentioned horses here before
Thank you! We have all been waiting months for you to talk about horses. It is really great that you finally have taken up the subject. This site is so much richer now that your equine pontifications are a permanent part of the record here!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @07:37PM
No need for sarcasm, the guy is just really into horses:
(Score: 4, Funny) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday September 01 2015, @05:53PM
Chelsea Manning!
/ducks
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 01 2015, @06:20PM
The Thing!!! Strip Date:Jul 21, 2009
Mike, Ethan, Predator
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Mike: Thanks for the tour, Ethan. Guess that thing hasn't come out here tovisit.
Ethan: :Pity that. I have...devices that can take care of your problem for you.
Mike: Devices?
Predator [outside, still tugging at soldering iron in face]: Eh...ehhhh...
Ethan: I hacked into a weapons satellite. It drops fin-steered steel crowbarsfrom orbit and uses the gravity well for energy. Behold.
Predator [outside]: @#$!
[Crowbar slams into Predator] **WHUMP!**
Mike: Holy...!
Predator: ebbeh.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.