The Morning Rant: J.V. Edition

Prof: Trigger warnings 'serious threats' to teaching English

Ya think?

“Trigger warnings are posing serious threats to the ways that English educators can teach at the university level,” argues Wolfsdorf, who taught English for 18 years at the high school level, and is now in his fifth year of teaching at the Columbia University Teachers College.

In a list of six possible consequences of trigger warnings, he argues that they “foster a culture where student fragility is promoted over the development of resilience,” and can “encourage students to avoid intense literary moments that they may perceive as too powerful.”

“At the end of the day, we are trying to arm our students for reality—to build their resilience,” he concludes. “Being over-protective, even if well-intended, does more damage than good.”

In her defense, she is undoubtedly so poorly educated by the very people she wishes were running things that she has no idea what communism really is...just a prettified dictatorship with a well-designed ad campaign consisting of platitudes shaped to attract ignorant idealists such as herself.

Although, when I really think about it, I am being unfair to most dictatorships throughout history. How many made communism's concerted effort to kill so many of its own adherents and subjects?

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