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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 entirely right to say, wait a second, if we have to guess what's going to upset any student in our class...

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. what's 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 environment where everybody's talking on eggshells, i guess you could say, you end up having peopl...

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 you've just laid out a great opportunity for some conservative magazine or something. maybe there is. >> what about a common sense magazine? >> well, i wish there was common sense magazines, maybe you can start one. >> that seems like tha...

Before she arrived and do signs that said save space if you can't 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 i'm not going to listen to it. what the liberal left is doing is taking an extra step. >> i want you to listen to it. >> what's with the free speech. it's 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 point where there is an effort now kind of carve out exceptions ...

That said save space if you can't 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 i'm not going to listen to it. what the liberal left is doing is taking an extra step. >> i want you to listen to it. >> what's with the free speech. it's 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 point where there is an effort now kind of carve out exceptions possibly? >> most of the book is...