@juliagalef @slatestarcodex Well, the post is still thoughtful and interesting. But yeah, I think if you pushed a little, you’d find almost nobody actually categorically opposed to content warnings. The real dispute is which cases are appropriate & which are merely performative.
@juliagalef @slatestarcodex Imagine a film class studying “Straw Dogs” or “A Clockwork Orange.” How many people are seriously going to say it’s inappropriate to warn the students up front that these films contain disturbing scenes of sexual violence? Virtually nobody, I’d wager.
@juliagalef @slatestarcodex If, OTOH, we’re talking about “trigger warnings” for classism & sexism in, I don’t know, 19th century novels, the objection isn’t really to content warnings pe se. It’s that adults don’t need to be told 19th century novels are classist & sexist...
@juliagalef @slatestarcodex ...and that it’s absurd to imagine any significant percentage of students will find these things literally *traumatizing* (as opposed to disagreeable), and that it’s unhealthy to conflate these things.
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