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A 20 minute chat with my dean flipped my view on trigger warnings
Last month at Central Michigan I was furious when a professor got told to add a content note to a lecture about war photography. I emailed the dean about censorship, figured it was admin overreach. She called me in and showed me 3 student complaints from vets who had panic attacks in that exact class. I still think schools go overboard sometimes, but hearing those specific cases made me realize the policy is less about silencing and more about giving people a heads up. Has anyone else changed their mind after actually talking to an administrator one on one?
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miaharris19d ago
Three vets having panic attacks in one class is not nothing. My cousin did two tours in Afghanistan and he walked out of a movie theater during a preview for some war film, just bailed in the middle of the row. He wasn't trying to shut the movie down, he just needed a second to breathe. A one line heads up at the top of a slide costs nobody anything. People hear "trigger warning" and picture kids hiding from ideas, but half the time it's just basic manners for folks who already paid a price. Still think some campuses hand them out like candy, but those three complaints are hard to argue with.
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