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Wait, is that what I think it is?

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No!

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So this is going to be a new segment on various ideas, concepts that people seem to actually

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get wrong, specifically things that seem to have its origin from college campuses or college

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classrooms.

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And I decided to start this series because honestly, this is like an extension of Tyree

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Tuesday.

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I get so frustrated when people use these concepts and they have no idea what they're

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talking about.

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It is absolutely frustrating.

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It happens in the public space.

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It's used as, you know, dog whistles or other things in the public, in the political sphere.

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And in social discussions, people use it as if they understand what they're talking about,

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and they clearly have no idea.

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And this is part of a general broader issue, I think, where people want to, how do you

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say this, are too busy reacting with feelings and emoting and with all of these associations

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that they seem to have latched onto a specific term and don't really understand what it is

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and how it's actually used.

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They hear one or two stories.

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I mean, it might be true, but it probably is a one-off.

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And then they run with it, and then they think that this is something that actually happens

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or being taught to kids or, you know, a big thing that's being used throughout college

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campuses or indoctrinating people.

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This shit needs to stop, right?

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It's just more like a call to the public to be rational.

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That's really all it is.

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Like, let's calm down people and let's talk about what's actually happening and deal with,

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well, you know, the reality on the ground instead of whatever make-believe shit you

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put into your own head, okay?

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So you know, I have a series of these that we definitely need to cover.

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Some of them are ones that are going to be, were bigger at some point in the past, but

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I think it's always good to kind of clear the air, as well as some of the more recent

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things that people have been using terms or catchphrases people have been using in the

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public sphere, okay?

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So today I want to talk about trigger warnings and why anybody who gets upset about trigger

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warnings, y'all are just parking up the wrong tree.

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Like, you're getting upset at something that is just non-existent, okay?

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And I'm going to explain exactly what I mean by that, okay?

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So trigger warnings, to be clear, are cases where, at least in terms of in colleges and

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classrooms, right, is a case where an instructor decides to tell students, hey, trigger warning.

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There's stuff that we're about to discuss that could raise a lot of strong feelings,

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right?

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Usually these will be cases of abuse, violence, graphic, sexual details of some sort, you

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know, it could run the range, right?

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But things that are not something that is necessarily pleasant and definitely could

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have implications for students, especially given their personal experiences, okay?

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Different kinds of trauma that are honestly pretty, unfortunately, way too common, especially

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in college and high school, right?

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Things dealing with abuse of power, abuse of body in various ways.

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So why provide these trigger warnings, right?

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Okay, so I could tell you this.

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In the educational setting, the reason for trigger warnings is so that students can prepare

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themselves emotionally, mentally for what is being discussed, okay?

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And the rationale for it is nothing more than simply if you kind of hit a person from left

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field, like just out of nowhere, with some topic that, you know, triggers some strong

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emotions, then what happens is that the student is no longer able to engage in a fruitless

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truthful discussion, brains shut down, people get too riled up in their feelings or brings

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up trauma that they're not able to handle because they weren't prepared for it.

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And as a result, the whole goal of an education endeavor, which is to, you know, learn to,

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you know, engage in discussion and to kind of grow from those discussions, that can't

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happen, right?

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This is just true of people generally, right?

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Like, look, I don't have to go through like, you know, crazy examples.

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I'm sure that other people have experienced something similar, right?

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I remember like when I was a younger kid, right?

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My brother just knew how to, you know, just push the right buttons.

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He used to drive me nuts, right?

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It would be something that he would say or how he would say it.

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And it would just set me off and I would go into like rage mode and I would just be so

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angry that all I saw was red.

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And it didn't matter whether or not I misinterpreted or somebody tries to calm me down with reason,

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right?

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Nothing would help because I was already off the deep end, right?

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You might have had an experience like this, you know, it could be a range of different

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kind of emotions, but like, you know, something triggers you in a way so that you're not able

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to think clearly, right?

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And as a result, you're not going to be engaging in any rational discussion.

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You might resort to, you might desire at least to resort to violence or insults or yelling

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or, you know, like, it's not going to be productive.

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Nobody's learning anything, okay?

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So if you're thinking about it in a classroom setting, it would be very helpful if we did

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not have those kinds of, you know, outcomes, right?

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That's not something that an instructor wants because it's not going to be conducive to

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the whole point of having the discussion, which is probably something educational, I'm

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guessing, right?

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Okay.

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Now, here are some things that trigger warnings are not, okay?

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Trigger warnings are not necessarily an excuse for the students to not participate, okay?

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That's not what trigger warnings are.

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Trigger warnings, you should think of trigger warnings as no different.

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And I mean it on a hundred percent, like, just on par with the kinds of warnings you

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see when you go watch a movie, right?

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When you go watch a movie, what do they tell you?

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Like at the beginning, they'll say like it's rated blank, right?

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And then nowadays they'll include, right?

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Why is it rated that, right?

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Is it for graphic nudity?

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Is it for violence?

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Is it for, you know, explicit language?

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Why is it rated the way that it is, right?

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That's the information that's given, right?

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Trigger warnings are just that, right?

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So if you are getting worked up over trigger warnings, that word, like it riles up a lot

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of feelings, like a bunch of snowflakes, a bunch of people who are like all like mad

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at, you know, like people being honest about reality and stuff or people being too soft

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about this and that, okay?

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That's not what trigger warnings are.

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Triggers and warnings are just simply meant to be informative in the sense of like, look,

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this is what we're going to be talking about, okay?

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This is what we're going to be talking about.

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I'm mentioning it, right?

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If I'm the instructor, I'm mentioning it because I know that there is a chance that this might,

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you know, trigger some people because I don't know everybody's background.

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I don't know their history.

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I don't know what they've been through.

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I don't know what's going to set them off, right?

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But these are the kinds of things that tend to, you know, set some people off in certain

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ways or like have them spiral into depression or anxiety or, you know, extreme excessive

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discomfort, right?

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Like something, it's going to do something to a decent portion of the population.

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So I'm mentioning it so that y'all can know what's coming up.

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And then once y'all know what's coming up, you could actually prepare to hear it.

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Or if you know that you are in a space or you're in a kind of place in life where you

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know you're not going to respond to it very well, at least it could be a conversation

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that could be had with the instructor, you know, not necessarily to divulge all the information,

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but at least a discussion about, you know, maybe some ways of covering the material in

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a way that is actually productive, right?

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This is something that instructors, at least good instructors, are always looking to do.

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They're looking to make sure that their time in the classroom is not, you know, just simply

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the teacher just presenting a bunch of information that they think the students should be thinking

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about or discussing, but rather also considering how, you know, that message is translated

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by the students, how they receive it, how they're able to handle that material, right?

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Whether it's something that is, you know, emotionally heightening or not, right?

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That's the general goal of a good instructor, right?

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They're trying to make sure that people learn, right?

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So why do instructors put in trigger warnings?

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Well, at least in theory, right?

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It's just nothing more than, hey, I'm preparing you for what's coming so that you can prepare

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your heart, your mind, right?

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Your, you know, whatever is going on with you so that you can engage in a fruitful discussion.

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And if it's something that is just too overwhelming so that you're not going to be able to learn,

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then we could discuss maybe a way to go ahead and learn this in a way that, you know, is

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productive for you.

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Okay?

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That's all it is.

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Okay?

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It is not to protect people's feelings.

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That is not what trigger warnings are.

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Trigger warnings are not there to be like, oh, I know this is like sensitive material.

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And so, you know, you might not be able to handle it.

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And so, you know, I'm letting you know so that you could leave the classroom and not

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come back until we're done with talking about this portion.

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That is not the case.

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Now, that said, there might be instructors that make such arrangements, right?

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There might be instructors that say, hey, this might be a little bit too, you know,

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too much for some of you.

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And so if you feel uncomfortable with it, you could leave the room.

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You could, you know, skip out on this portion of the discussion.

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Now, there might be actual instructors who do that.

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I want to say, like, look, show me the proof in the pudding, right?

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Like, give me the cases of where this is actually like happening in part because my guess is

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that it's going to be if it happens at all.

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And I'm not saying it doesn't.

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If it does happen, it's going to be in a small range of cases.

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And this is a problem with the way that social media often works.

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People see one instance and then they infer that it happens on a regular basis.

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So I've had experience with like 99% of the instructors that I've encountered, like a

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lot of them don't end up using trigger warnings ever in part because like there's nothing

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that they're discussing that requires it.

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All right?

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That's the first thing.

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Secondly, if they do use it, it's usually in a small subset of cases.

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It's not like throughout the class.

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Thirdly, when they do use it, they rarely just let the student just not participate

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in class at all.

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Usually it'll be let's find an alternative way of engaging with the material given that

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this material is particularly triggering for you.

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That's all it is.

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That is all it is.

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Right?

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Like if you think about like if they had a speaker coming in and they're going to be

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talking about certain sets of materials and so in the ads they say like trigger warning,

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this is the kind of topic we're talking about.

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Right?

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They're not saying like, hey, we don't want you to come.

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We want you to stay home and protect your feelings.

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That's not what they're saying.

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They're saying, hey, we're letting you know so that when you come in, you're not shocked

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and you're not taken off guard that you have prepared yourself.

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You know what you're getting yourself into so that when you're there, right, the thought

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is that you could engage in a fruitful discussion because you're coming in already having readied

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yourself for what you're about to hear.

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That's all it is.

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Okay?

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That is all it is.

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In other words, this should not be a controversial idea at all.

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Like I don't know why this shows up in the public sphere and discussions, right, in commentaries

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by people.

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Like this is absolutely stupid.

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The way that people use this term and the things that people associated with it about

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people in college being soft and not being able to handle, you know, discussions about

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real life stuff that, you know, that's not at all what it is.

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And that is not the way that educators should be used.

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Look, is there a reason to critique the way some people use trigger warnings?

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Yeah, there is.

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Some people might be using trigger warnings incorrectly, right?

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And in fact, some of them might be instructors, right?

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I know instructors who use a lot of these concepts and ideas that are thrown around

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in the, you know, instructional circles, they use them incorrectly, right?

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They're human, right?

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They might not understand it clearly themselves.

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Okay.

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But that is not what it is.

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They're just mistaken and they're not using it correctly.

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Like they're just not actually providing trigger warnings, right?

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They're taking it and making it into something else.

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I'm not saying that that can't happen.

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What I'm saying is, look, critique the specific instructor who's doing it.

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And you know what?

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I'll join in with you.

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If they're doing shit that is completely out of bounds, I will join in you or join in with

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you on the criticism.

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Okay?

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But I don't want this to be like some wholesale brush, you know, like, you know, what is that,

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broads brush, like...

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We're not going to paint all instructors as if they are doing this with their students

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and coddling their students.

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That's not what trigger warnings are.

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Okay?

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If there are instructors using it that way, that is a problem.

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But my guess, just from experience, you know, and teaching in a lot of different institutions,

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right?

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Like this is not a real thing that happens regularly, if at all, right?

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It is not a thing, right?

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And what's so aggravating is that this becomes the narrative for so many people about what's

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actually happening on college campuses that it just makes me want to like yell at them.

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It's like, have you ever actually been in a classroom?

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Like, do you even know what you're talking about?

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Okay?

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Maybe this is the lesson we should learn.

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People should not talk about shit they don't understand.

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That should be the lesson that we learn, right?

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If you don't know what this really is, and just try to be rational here, right?

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Like look, teachers are people, okay?

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They're teaching the best the way that they can probably, they understand, you know, how

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to teach, right?

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They're trying to do the best job they can.

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Okay?

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I am guessing that like all of the people, they're going to make mistakes and they're

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going to do things that are out of pocket that just happens, right?

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This is how society works.

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Humans are humans and we kind of sometimes need to keep each other in check.

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Okay?

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But at least do it for things that are grounded in what's actually happening, please, right?

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Don't ground it in things that are just like imaginary made up issues that just don't actually

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exist and trigger warnings is one of them, right?

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I have, I mean, I have never seen, I mean, I've seen on social media some few cases here

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and there.

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Maybe it's true and if so, then yeah, we could critique it, but look, please don't make it

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seem as if this is something that is a regular occurrence.

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It is not.

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It is not.

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When trigger warnings are offered, it is not in most cases.

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And when it is offered, it is not an option for students to just like not learn.

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That is not what it is.

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It is meant to actually enhance learning.

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That's what it's meant to do.

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It's meant, it's no different than if I were to give students at the beginning of a new

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segment in the class, right, where we're talking about a new topic, I would always try my best

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and this is good teaching practice.

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I would always try my best to give students a kind of an overview of what is about to

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come so that they could kind of gather their thoughts around, you know, what's a, what

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they're going to be introducing next.

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They could contextualize what we're about to discuss coming forward.

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Like look, trigger warnings are no different than that.

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That's all it is.

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That's all it is.

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So stop making it more than what it is.

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Y'all need to calm down, relax, and not get worked up over trigger warnings.

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If you are, you probably don't even know what it is.

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My guess is you probably couldn't even explain it correctly.

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Okay.

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So just seriously put your feelings to the side and then see this for what it is.

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All right.

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Let's deal with what's, what's really happening.

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Not all this bullshit made up imaginary crap.

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Got it?

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Thank you so much.