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Monday, November 10. 2014

Trigger Warning


This topic might be triggering to our readers: This is how bad censorship is getting: Discussions of what can’t be said come with a ‘trigger warning.’



Hypersensitivity to the trauma allegedly inflicted by listening to controversial ideas approaches a strange form of derangement—a disorder whose lethal spread in academia grows by the day. What should be the object of derision, a focus for satire, is instead the subject of serious faux academic discussion and precautionary warnings. For this disorder there is no effective quarantine.



It doesn't need satire because it satirizes itself. But in the UK, the government is considering speech permits. That is not a joke. I think it must be mostly about not pissing off their Muslims.


Posted by The Barrister in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects, Our Essays at 15:33 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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I can't bear to be subjected to discussions of either trigger warnings or restrictions on free speech. I demand that everyone stop mentioning these possibilities, lest I break out in hives.
#1 Texan99 on 2014-11-10 15:55 (Reply)
I think we should start demanding trigger warnings on words like 'racist' and 'denier' and 'right winger' and so on. Maybe we can get all words triggered other than a, an, and the.
#2 JorgXMcKie on 2014-11-10 19:50 (Reply)
Given that in 2008 Sweden passed a law allowing eavesdropping on internet websites:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/technology/19iht-sweden.4.13838203.html?_r=0

It is no surprise they have come this far this year.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/18116-new-swedish-law-criminalizes-anti-immigration-internet-speech
#3 another one on 2014-11-10 22:09 (Reply)
Let Sweden be Sweden. The US intervened three times to save EUrope: WW1, WW2, and the Cold War. People who do not wish to be free will not be made free. People who do not wish to be saved cannot be saved. EUrope’s essential nature cannot be remade.
#4 ErisGuy on 2014-11-10 22:31 (Reply)
Why am I thinking aobut "Don't look Ethel" from Ray Stevens song, the Streak.

The English and Swedish censorship rules show what happens when rights are granted by statue rather than recognized by a constitution. As long as you get a parliamentary majority, out it goes.
#5 walt moffett on 2014-11-10 22:47 (Reply)
my teenage daughter asked what this was all about; microaggressions.
I think she summed it up nicely;

Man up and grow a pair. Quit being {censored}.
#6 fjord on 2014-11-12 09:43 (Reply)

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