Christina WarrenApr 12, 2023
Good. Cornell did the right thing here but I’ll admit to being (pleasantly)surprised it was this resolute. If an individual professor wants to do content warnings as a courtesy, fine. But trying to make that mandatory is not OK. #xp https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/nyregion/cornell-student-assembly-trigger-warnings.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Should College Come With Trigger Warnings? At Cornell, It’s a ‘Hard No.’

When the student assembly voted to require faculty to alert students to upsetting educational materials, administrators pushed back.

The New York Times
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@film_girl
Maybe it’s because I’m GenX & raised in the “school of tough love,” it’s nice to see a university saying “suck it up, buttercup, life is occasionally unpleasant.”

Having seen my partner get triggered wrt past trauma, she’s developed tooling to deal w/it. I doubt that she’s a unique case.

You can be kind w/out coddling their insecurities.
You can also teach unpleasant topics w/out being harsh & callous.

Apr 13, 2023 at 1:54pmWeb
Show threadChristina WarrenApr 13, 2023
@kerneltux absolutely. You can teach with compassion and have open discussions about the upsetting or unpleasant subject matter. That’s good and correct and honestly, probably therapeutic.