Shiver
Slaver Bait
- Joined
- Apr 26, 2019
I think that trigger warnings can be a good idea for things related to things that have a serious potential to affect someone's mental health. It's easy to be dismissive of them for people who don't bear large traumas with them.
This is it precisely. They were originally intended for those who bear trauma, and for whom exposure to certain words or ideas could trigger a panic attack or PTSD-like episode. They're compassionate and useful in that sense.
They were never intended to shield people from words or ideas they might dislike or find upsetting.
Should you put them on a college syllabus? Hard to say. But it helps to understand what they're actually for, so that they don't get trivialized or mocked.