How Trigger Warnings Are Hurting Mental Health on Campus - The Atlantic

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College students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like. Here’s why that’s disastrous for education.

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 52:34 S omething strange is happening at America’s colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense. Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for The New Yorker about law students asking her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law—or, in one case, even use the word violate (as in “that violates the law”) lest it cause students distress. In February, Laura Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University, w

How Trigger Warnings Are Hurting Mental Health on Campus - The Atlantic

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