Page 21 - Trigger Warnings News Today

Discount them. but theres also, it seems to me, they can be the by-product of speech. people can say things that really, genuinely, you do emotionally harm. they may even make you in some sense feel unsafe or feel harassed. figuring out what that line is seems to be a pretty tricky thing. because if that category expands big enough, you do start to encroach on debate. >> sure, but lets be clear that black students arent going and complaining to the administration every time someone says somethin...

He is one of the first black students to graduate from the lawsuit. he has been involved with the school for 30 years. the unrest on missouris campus is a big topic on the campaign trail. listen to the republican candidates. >> freedom of speech on campuses is under assault. at some of the finest institutions in the country. in the case of missouri, im still trying to figure out what exactly did he do or say to cause him to resign. >> people are so frightened of the politically correct police th...

Because if that category expands big enough, you do start to encroach on debate. >> sure, but lets be clear that black students arent going and complaining to the administration every time someone says something that is remotely offensive to them. these were a series of escalating incidents in which students were moving around and being yelled at, so that they felt physically unsafe. thats very different than a student in your class said something that was racially insensitive and now youre call...

"harassment," those are real things, and i dont want to discount them. but theres also, it seems to me, they can be the by-product of speech. people can say things that really, genuinely, you do emotionally harm. they may even make you in some sense feel unsafe or feel harassed. figuring out what that line is seems to be a pretty tricky thing. because if that category expands big enough, you do start to encroach on debate. >> sure, but lets be clear that black students arent going and complainin...

Going on so many college campuses now is kids are taught that you know, if anything offends their sensibilities they should say dont talk to me about that. they are called trigger warnings. this does not help young people prepare for a lifetime in the real world. >> is she right? are real civil rights struggles being marginalized. these are not real world problems that the students are dealing with? >> i think there is a legitimate problem with too much political correctness but i also think if ...

Viewers and listeners? >> an idea of warn someone in advance they might run into material that might be upsetting or traumatic to readers. >> so it would be like sort of what we might say at beginning of a bad movie, an r-rated movie? >> pretty much, yeah. but the problem is that universities are in some cases being pressured to adopt these. and the problem with it is that trigger warnings are so fundamentally subjective that i think that the american association of university professors is enti...

Vindictive. >> vindictive protectiveness. i loved your opening, by the way, talking to bill maher can we take a joke on campus thing. one of the great symptoms comedians are fleeing campuses. a documentary, can we take a joke, in a couple of months. >> college campuses are supposed to be, if not perhaps the last great bastion of this kind of thing. whats the effect on students in the long term? >> you know, i think in a lot of cases students hearts are in the right place but where you create an ...

Larization gets more hostile, any environment which leans left or right will get more of an intense breeding browned for hostility. >> is there anyway that a parent with a thimble of common sense could get a list of colleges where they employed trigger warnings, speech codes, to save money on application to colleges? >> a thimble. >> just announce. >> i think youve just laid out a great opportunity for some conservative magazine or something. maybe there is. >> what about a common sense magazine...

Before she arrived and do signs that said save space if you cant handle what christina is saying. trigger warnings like people are being psychologically damaged that. sounds crazy, but what is so problematic is intolerance is just im not going to listen to it. what the liberal left is doing is taking an extra step. >> i want you to listen to it. >> whats with the free speech. its a fundamental tenet. say what you want. you do you want well with footnotes in your book that if you want to say it o...

That said save space if you cant handle what christina is saying. trigger warnings like people are being psychologically damaged that. sounds crazy, but what is so problematic is intolerance is just im not going to listen to it. what the liberal left is doing is taking an extra step. >> i want you to listen to it. >> whats with the free speech. its a fundamental tenet. say what you want. you do you want well with footnotes in your book that if you want to say it over here. are we getting to the ...