Universities Trigger Warnings, Are They Needed?

[iansheff]

Why do Universities feel the need to issue trigger warnings, do they think the young academic students of today need protecting from anything that might upset or offend them if they read something without being warned of the content?  The University of Warwick have deemed that  Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe published in 1819 requires a trigger warning for racism. 

 

University issues trigger warning of ‘racism’ for Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe (msn.com)

[The_DADDY]

University isn't about education anymore. It's indoctrination and part of that indoctrination is to make the 'students' scared about everything and everyone that offers a different opinion.

"Speech is violence" and all that jazz. 

[m williamson]

English courses involving the works of Shakespeare must present a problem. Not only are there a multitude of deaths but they include some       ' interesting ' methods of shuffling off this mortal coil.  Burned in a fire, buried up to the neck and starved, smothered by a pillow, snakebite and eating hot coals to name a few.

The world has definitely changed since I were a lad. Back then we'd have regarded them as spoiler alerts rather than trigger warnings.

[Norbert]

This thread needs a You've Been Triggered warning

[HeHasRisen]

I suspect this is merely a university covering itself against complaints from students, dont see the issue.

[Al Bundy]

3 minutes ago, HeHasRisen said:

I suspect this is merely a university covering itself against complaints from students, dont see the issue.

The issue being that the complaints will be about something that's not worthy of complaint.

7 minutes ago, Norbert said:

This thread needs a You've Been Triggered warning

Triggered, meaning you have an opinion on a subject...

 

So by definition, you were triggered into making a comment?

 

If no one was " triggered" this forum and every forum world wide would cease to exist.

 

Forum owners love folk being triggered.

 

 

Triggered though!!!!

 

😂😂

 

 

[Norbert]

6 minutes ago, Al Bundy said:

Triggered, meaning you have an opinion on a subject...

No, triggered like when someone easily offended gets their feelings hurt by a dog whistle headline in The Telegraph, and has to start a thread about it, then the other snowflakes join in, and you stroke each other and have a dog treat. Who's a good boy then.

[Mister M]

17 minutes ago, HeHasRisen said:

I suspect this is merely a university covering itself against complaints from students, dont see the issue.

Agree with this.

Universities have become much more commercialised in recent decades, and are probably concerned with a few students taking to social media to complain about something they've read about.

Though there is a certain irony to someone reading something taken from the Daily Telegraph, and taking to social media to complain about it.

That's what the Telegraph, Mail and the rest of them do, hope to wind their readers up into paroxysms of rage at the 'modern world'.

Never mind. It's just a consequence of educational establishments having been marketised, which is something that the Telegraph, in spite of their harrumphing, most certainly agree with.

[hackey lad]

I thought Universities were places for clever people .   I never went but I know Shakespeares  plays were  norty  

[Arthur Ritus]

"In that pleasant district of Merry England which is watered by the River Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest...Here haunted of yore the fabulous Dragon of Wantley".
 

Couldn't be all bad.