In high school, students are not allowed to watch nor participate in certain material without written consent from their guardian. In many universities, students want something similar. College is a place to challenge your beliefs, misconceptions and understandings, broaden your tolerance, also grasp different views and lifestyles. Despite that students have been requesting “trigger warnings”, alerts that inform if the material can cause traumatic flashbacks. There have been many discussions on this issue; on one side, students and some administrators argue trigger warnings should be used to create awareness, not fear, they can save someone from a bad flashback. Whereas faculty argue students need to be exposed to matter and ideas that are disturbing in order to be well rounded. Jennifer Medina, in “Careful: The Literary Canon Could Make Students Squirm”
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What students fail to realize is that censorship takes away the freedom of speech; Kaminer brings up the fact that there wouldn’t be any feminist movement if women didn’t give offense, which is true. Medina also makes a great point when she quotes Greg Lukiaoff, "It is only going to get harder to teach people that there is a real important and serious value to being offended. Part of that is talking about deadly serious and uncomfortable subjects” (Medina 91). In other words, as time progresses, it is going to be difficult to explain why it is okay to give and receive offense, also talking about uncomfortable topics because students are not being taught the art giving and taking offense in a free society. Trigger words would restrict students ' universe rather than expand it. Both of these authors, nonetheless, focus on the responsibility of the professor and academia, yet fail to focus on the responsibility that a student should take. Teachers and administrators can do only do so much, now it 's time for the students to put in some
What students fail to realize is that censorship takes away the freedom of speech; Kaminer brings up the fact that there wouldn’t be any feminist movement if women didn’t give offense, which is true. Medina also makes a great point when she quotes Greg Lukiaoff, "It is only going to get harder to teach people that there is a real important and serious value to being offended. Part of that is talking about deadly serious and uncomfortable subjects” (Medina 91). In other words, as time progresses, it is going to be difficult to explain why it is okay to give and receive offense, also talking about uncomfortable topics because students are not being taught the art giving and taking offense in a free society. Trigger words would restrict students ' universe rather than expand it. Both of these authors, nonetheless, focus on the responsibility of the professor and academia, yet fail to focus on the responsibility that a student should take. Teachers and administrators can do only do so much, now it 's time for the students to put in some