WARNING: Scary Books Are Scary

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BanzaiCat

This is what happens when the kids of the 'everyone gets a trophy' parents grow up and go to college.

US students request 'trigger warnings' on literature

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/19/us-students-request-trigger-warnings-in-literature

QuoteStudents in America have been asking for "trigger warnings" to be included on works of literature which deal with topics such as rape or war.

The request was formally made by the student government at the University of California in Santa Barbara, according to the New York Times, which yesterday also cited similar requests from students at Oberlin College, Rutgers University, the University of Michigan, George Washington University and other places.

Books which have been named by students as potentially requiring "trigger warnings" – the term is used to warn readers of possibly distressing material to follow – include Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, and The Merchant of Venice. A draft trigger warning policy from Oberlin, quoted in Inside Higher Education, used Achebe's acclaimed text as an example of a work which might require a warning, saying the novel was "a triumph of literature that everyone in the world should read. However, it may trigger readers who have experienced racism, colonialism, religious persecution, violence, suicide, and more."

(More weepy nonsense in the article)

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airboy

Idiots whose definition of "Freedom of Speech" is "don't ever show me anything that I disagree with!"

Silent Disapproval Robot

Universities should be a haven of safe, nurturing conformity where the one true form of diversity is preached.  Exposing innocent young minds to new and possibly uncomfortable ideas is a hate crime.   You know better.

bayonetbrant

The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers