Iowa State professor: Trigger warnings are more needed now than ever before
From .thecollegefix.com
2021-08-26 14:42:19
College Fix Staff
Excerpt:
Dismissing evidence that so-called “triger warnings” do more harm than good, an Iowa State University professor is arguing that such warnings are more necessary now than ever.
Liberal Arts and Sciences Professor Michael Bugeja, writing in Inside Higher Education, says policies regarding trigger warnings need to be updated because “times have changed.”
“Measuring distress in a clinical experiment is one thing; encouraging discussion about distressing topics over an entire semester is another,” writes Bugeja. “Warning an incoming class about the absence of intellectual safe spaces is one thing; providing those spaces is another. Concerns about threats to academic freedom is one thing; exercising freedom responsibly is another.”