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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: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Tuesday September 01 2015, @04:48PM
You don't want somebody in class suddenly screaming about what Father O'Malley did to them when they were an altar boy or what happened during their tour in Iraq.
And that's the tragedy, given a problem lets gin up some engineering solutions, well, in the old days we blew a lot of time, money, and effort on trying to prevent bad stuff and spend money on mental health treatment and at least on paper tried to avoid empire building aggression, but the new solution is we'll continue getting your battle buddies leg blown off in front of you by an IED because daddy warbucks gotta make bank, but the good news is we have a new solution of having people not talk about it in class anymore.
nobody has gotten into severe PTSD over ... multivariable calculus
OH I saw a few basket cases by the end of some math weed out classes. And ochem. And intro to programming. And the EE "Ohms law for dummies" first semester I forget the exact name (linear analysis or intro to linear circuits or something)