The psychology of political correctness

It would be easy to rid any college student of the notion of needing a trigger warning. Anytime someone in class says they are too sensitive for some of the material, simply require them to take this class:SOCI 102: Studies in DesensitizationInstructor: Dr. Chris Rock (honorary)In this course we will examine the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky and the earlier works of John Waters, with a particular emphasis on Pink Flamingos. Readings from various classic works will also be included.This course will prepare the student for further coursework in history, abnormal psychology, and genetics. For Humanities majors it will also aid in tolerating your neighbors in the trailer park after the student loans come due.Required textbook: Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs. ISBN: 978-0802122070Edited by anglagard, : No reason given.Edited by anglagard, : Put in right thread

1. It was a joke, I'm sorry I offended you with my National Lampoon (magazine 1970-1980) / Robert Crumb sense of humor. Please note I did use the winky button thereby issuing a trigger warning.2. Your point is well taken, special circumstances should warrant special accommodations when appropriate. However, censorship for all is never warranted to appease the sensitivities of the few. 3. Jeez what a stuck-up prig -- no wonder we declared independence.Edited by anglagard, : To more directly respond to insult

Sometimes my jokes hit and sometimes they miss, but at least I tried. I have never even seen you make a joke and judging from your posts, I think you are one of the most humorless people to inhabit the earth since Timur the Lame, or, pardon me, Timur the Mobility Impaired.As for punching up or down, doesn't a lot of English comedy such as Monty Python, Are You Being Served, Faulty Towers, Keeping Up Appearances and so on do a considerable amount of punching down? I still find them funny, evidently you do not. You know where I screwed up? I should have titled the post How to Eliminate the Need for Most Trigger Warnings. In this nation trigger warnings are vastly overused. Don't accept evolution - trigger warning; climate change - trigger warning; Civil War about slavery, not state's rights - trigger warning; Hydrology class requires knowledge of differential equations - trigger warning. Revolutionary War not about taxation only, had more to do with being treated like non-citizens - trigger warning.I also noticed you left the most important part of my post out -- namely:

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Your point is well taken, special circumstances should warrant special accommodations when appropriate.

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Instead you go off on some bizarre tangent about Anglagard the peanut allergy killer.Hmm...humorless, hysterical, and intentionally deceitful -- just to score some brownie points off of yours truly. Well, maybe not entirely humorless.

The problem is you are using the appropriate narrow definition of trigger warnings that is likely used in your nation and I am condemning its overuse to avoid the truth and censor content in this nation.I think we are actually speaking past each other because we are actually debating two different subjects.So I agree with you for the second time concerning the narrow definition and apologize for my lack of clarity in emphasizing this fact.I hope you understand I am very much against the overuse of trigger warnings in this nation in order to shield one from disagreeable facts, not against their use to warn the vulnerable that they may find any future content disturbing.Have I made my position clear to you now? Edited by anglagard, : Provide more appropriate title in regard to the situation in the USA

This was a cross-Atlantic misunderstanding caused by using different definitions and observing different actions in two different nations with a somewhat different sense of humor (mine is sicker and I think much less PC, but don't hold me to that), see previous references.As I admit, I did not title my post accurately so at least some of this is misunderstanding is my fault. That being said I hereby cease all hostilities.BTW, great post.

Please see the following, starting around 9:00 in and almost to the bitter end: video1 video2Sorry, too soon for youtube. I just want to say I believe trigger warnings have the potential of being overused, and when that happens, it diminishes appropriate circumstances. This is an example of overuse.Perhaps a cultural thing?Edited by anglagard, : question mark at endEdited by anglagard, : avoid argument by website.

Snopes calls Emory University story mostly false.

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WHAT'S TRUE: Students at Emory University gathered in protest after pro-Trump graffiti appeared overnight; administrators investigated the graffiti as it appeared outside designated areas for chalk markings.

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WHAT'S FALSE: "Emergency counseling" was offered to or demanded by students; Emory students complained that their "safe spaces" had been violated; students were afraid of or traumatized by the chalk markings.

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sourceDiscovered via PZ Myers at PharyngulaI would be remiss in my duty if I failed to report The Nightly Show and, by extension, myself, were had.Just shows how this discussion is indeed fraught with difficulty when trying to distinguish fact from fiction when so many have some hidden agenda.Like a pleasant stroll through Mos Eisley Spaceport, "one must be careful."

I first joined EVC after I discovered it while researching a claim by my 7th Day employee concerning the flying ability of pterosaurs (yes, their bones are hollow like birds). Since then I have used it as a discovery tool, have been schooled, and am the better for it. For example, while wavering over the death penalty and free speech rights concerning the antics of the Westboro Baptist Church, jar set me straight and now my ideas on both subjects align perfectly with his. To jars credit he did not chastise me further or gloat but rather welcomed me to the fold.Likewise after an ill-considered joke and much research, I have come to the conclusion that nearly all instances of - not just trigger warnings but also of any example of political correctness - overblown by the mass media. For that I largely have Modulous and Snopes to thank for a necessary realignment.While jar is gracious in victory, Modulous so far is not as the following suggests:

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That somebody would think a comedy show was a source of good information astounds me. Also - I'm surprised somebody thought the Nightly Show was a source of good information.

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Contrary to Modulous' assertion that I find comedy shows a reliable source of information, I was simply pointing out the debate had even hit the Nightly Show. Clearly my own subsequent post citing Snopes providing a mostly false verdict on the entire Emory University phenomena shows what I consider a reliable source.OK Modulous here it comes:Thank you for schooling me on this important topic. I deeply apologize for any vitriol I displayed toward you in previous posts. You were right and I was 'mostly wrong' in the vernacular of Snopes.While I still believe such political correctness nonsense can exist and be abused as such, my research indicates any such claim on the part of the mass media should be met with the severest skepticism.Once again, thank you Modulous.