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_refugee_  ·  3546 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How the language police are perverting liberalism

I have mixed feelings on trigger warnings. Not worth getting into here really. But ever since I first read this comment of yours one thing stuck out at me that I've wanted to let you know - I felt that you can make a better argument than:

    If you look up "trigger warning" you see a bunch of articles talking about how stupid trigger warnings are. You find almost nothing talking about how they're good.

I am pretty sure your opinion itself is more nuanced than "Well, a lot of people seem to think they're stupid, so..."