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user-inactivated  ·  3540 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How the language police are perverting liberalism

    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 say "almost" because I assume there's some somewhere but I didn't find it.

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I know ("know" acquainted with) a lot of people who take trigger warnings seriously. Facebook friends, bloggers, whatever. Microaggression, I've never heard before, no comment.

But yeah I didn't actually endorse this article I'm tryna trick you guys into reading stuff.





kleinbl00  ·  3540 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And I "know" people on the Internet that take orgone energy seriously. The Internet is a big place that people can get away from easily. That's what makes it nice.

It's when things cross over into the world that we start having a problem... and here in the tender state of California, where you can't sell nail polish without a carcinogen warning, where they tried to ban "master" and "slave" terminology in all government-funded enterprises, "trigger language" is something I only ever see on the Internet.