• Advertise
Friday, January 27, 2023
  • Login
No Result
View All Result
NEWSLETTER
The Fordham Ram
  • Home
  • Culture
    • Art
    • Books
    • Editor’s Pick
    • Fashion
    • Film And Television
    • Food
    • Music
    • Review
    • Television
    • Theatre
    • Who’s That Kid
  • News
    • Academics
    • Admissions
    • Faculty & Administrative
    • Feature
    • Finance
    • Metro
    • Research
    • USG
  • Opinion
    • Columnists
    • Editorial
    • From The Desk
    • Letters To The Editor
    • Op-Ed
  • Sports
    • Baseball
    • Basketball
    • Beyond The Scoreboard
    • Football
    • Rowing
    • Senior Profile
    • Soccer
    • Softball
    • Squash
    • Swimming And Diving
    • Tennis
    • Track And Field
    • Volleyball
    • Water Polo
  • About Us
  • Home
  • Culture
    • Art
    • Books
    • Editor’s Pick
    • Fashion
    • Film And Television
    • Food
    • Music
    • Review
    • Television
    • Theatre
    • Who’s That Kid
  • News
    • Academics
    • Admissions
    • Faculty & Administrative
    • Feature
    • Finance
    • Metro
    • Research
    • USG
  • Opinion
    • Columnists
    • Editorial
    • From The Desk
    • Letters To The Editor
    • Op-Ed
  • Sports
    • Baseball
    • Basketball
    • Beyond The Scoreboard
    • Football
    • Rowing
    • Senior Profile
    • Soccer
    • Softball
    • Squash
    • Swimming And Diving
    • Tennis
    • Track And Field
    • Volleyball
    • Water Polo
  • About Us
No Result
View All Result
The Fordham Ram
No Result
View All Result
Home Opinion

Trigger Warnings Not Oppressive

by The Fordham Ram
January 17, 2021
in Opinion
0
Trigger Warnings Not Oppressive

It has become the new media trend to publish think pieces on how trigger warnings are destroying education. The reasoning is generally as follows: it harms teaching to tell students that they can opt-out of triggering material and millennials are coddled and do not deal with struggles and there was an obscure incident that delegitimizes trigger warnings altogether in which a professor was punished for teaching certain material.

Few of these articles ever mention PTSD or why students afflicted with it should not have the ability to avoid things that may trigger it. Even fewer acknowledge what trigger warnings are actually used for.

Trigger warnings are not a mechanism for allowing scared college students to avoid talking about important topics. They have never been intended for this use. Trigger warnings are meant to protect students with severe psychological trauma. When authors use phrases like “coddled millennials” to describe the intended audience for trigger warnings, they insult each and every trauma survivor who benefits from them. The domestic abuse survivor who opts out of an in-class clip depicting marital violence is not coddled. The rape victim is not avoiding hard conversations. The veteran is not being overly sensitive.

The fact that trigger warnings are sometimes misused by students to avoid certain topics is not a reason to avoid them altogether, just as some people occasionally abusing their food stamps should not be an argument for not helping poor families eat. The trade-off is far too unbalanced, and we should always prioritize helping students with mental illness over making a frustrated professor’s job slightly more enjoyable.

In the long run, will one day of class make a significant difference in a student’s education? Probably not, especially if that student spends the entire class uncomfortable and distressed.

I am not sure when accommodating for the needs of minority groups in society became an affront to free speech or education, but even one student enduring psychological harm seems like too high a price to pay for a professor’s syllabus.

 

Tags: Marcelle MeyerOpiniontrigger warnings
ShareTweetShare
Next Post
Comedians Prove They Can Inspire More Than Laughs

Comedians Prove They Can Inspire More Than Laughs

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recommended

The Inside Scoop on Soft Serve

The Inside Scoop on Soft Serve

2 years ago
Try Trickle-Up Economics

Try Trickle-Up Economics

2 years ago

Popular News

  • Top FREE Best Online Singing Courses and Classes

    Top FREE Best Online Singing Courses and Classes

    1 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Is Toro The Best Zero Turn Mower on the Market?

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • 21 of The Best Landscape Hedge Ideas: #15 is Our Favorite!

    3756 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Rewind the 2010s: The 20 Most Influential People of the Decade

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Insuring Your Car in NYC

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0

Connect with us

  • Advertise

The Fordham Ram • © 2021 • Privacy Policy • FLEX WordPress Theme by SNO • Log in

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Culture
    • Art
    • Books
    • Editor’s Pick
    • Fashion
    • Film And Television
    • Food
    • Music
    • Review
    • Television
    • Theatre
    • Who’s That Kid
  • News
    • Academics
    • Admissions
    • Faculty & Administrative
    • Feature
    • Finance
    • Metro
    • Research
    • USG
  • Opinion
    • Columnists
    • Editorial
    • From The Desk
    • Letters To The Editor
    • Op-Ed
  • Sports
    • Baseball
    • Basketball
    • Beyond The Scoreboard
    • Football
    • Rowing
    • Senior Profile
    • Soccer
    • Softball
    • Squash
    • Swimming And Diving
    • Tennis
    • Track And Field
    • Volleyball
    • Water Polo
  • About Us

The Fordham Ram • © 2021 • Privacy Policy • FLEX WordPress Theme by SNO • Log in

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In