Trauma trigger

“A current threat to academic freedom in the classroom comes from a demand that teachers provide warnings in advance if assigned material contains anything that might trigger difficult emotional responses for students. ... The presumption that students need to be protected rather than challenged in a classroom is at once infantilizing and anti-intellectual. It makes comfort a higher priority than intellectual engagement.”

“Contrast these descriptions with the following “trigger warning” from Margaret Price, one that clearly bears the marks of disability studies and activism:”