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    Generation Snowflake: Safe Spaces, Trigger Warnings

    http://endoftheamericandream.com…

    This hyper-sensitivity has prompted the University of East Anglia to outlaw sombreros in a Mexican restaurant and caused the National Union of Students to ban clapping as “as it might trigger trauma”, asking youngsters to use “jazz hands” instead.

    At Brown University – like Harvard, one of the eight elite Ivy League universities – the New York Times reported students set up a “safe space” that offered calming music, cookies, Play-Doh and a video of frolicking puppies to help students cope with a discussion on how colleges should handle sexual assault.

    A Harvard student described in the university newspaper attending a “safe space” complete with “massage circles” that was designed to help students have open conversations.

    Literary classics are now considered potentially “unsafe” for students to read. Reading lists at some universities are being adapted to come with warnings printed beside certain titles: The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (Trigger: suicide, domestic abuse and graphic violence) and Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Trigger: suicidal tendencies).
    In some colleges, professors have been known to tell students that if a book makes them feel unsafe, they are allowed to skim it, or skip it altogether, a Harvard Law professor told this newspaper.

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    • WAKE UP SHEEPLEeighteen
    • gen flake could be running things soon. if we're lucky they will all melt before that time comesGnash
    • Reminds me of how ultra conservative Christians act around anything related to sex and science.monospaced
    • Going as far as eliminating, or trying to, sex Ed, the classics and basic biology from general education curriculum. That's a safe space if I've seen it.monospaced
    • I really don't see a problem with massage circles and chill-out spaces.nb
    • But we do need to make sure Universities are places that prioritize critical thought above ALL other things. We shouldn't be censoring ideas.nb
    • By the way, putting a warning beside a book title on a reading list isn't censorship.nb
    • yeah, agreed, when anything gets in the way of critical thinking becomes a problemyurimon
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