OT Cambridge University students given trigger warnings for Shakespeare plays

[SlyPokerDog]

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...andronicus-mary-beard-academics-a8008456.html

 

[SlyPokerDog]

We need Trigger Warning tags in the forum for threads that don't sing the praises of Trump.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Another overreaction, what a surprise. Not the existence of the "trigger warnings", mind you, but the response to them.

as Mary Beard, a Professor of Classics at Cambridge, say allowing students to avoid learning about traumatic episodes of history and literature is "fundamentally dishonest".

Isn't it intellectually dishonest to claim that warning people in advance of a discussion of a potentially-sensitive topic is equivalent to allowing them to avoid learning about them altogether? What's wrong with saying, "We're going to be talking about this, and it might be difficult or disturbing to you, so you need to be prepared for that"?

I have no issue with professors voluntarily including "trigger warnings" on their lectures, as long as such are not mandated by the university.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I'm triggered by trigger warnings.

 

[barfo]

I'm triggered by Roy Rogers horse.

barfo

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Time for a Bowdler revival...