MY RANT: To echo the sentiments in the article.
Enough already.
The world is full of triggers.
Learn to deal with them.
Maybe students just shouldn't go to class until they have had the requisite years of therapy!
If I had let "triggers" stop me from learning, I wouldn't have a PhD.
One cannot deal with rape until one understands how embedded (and therefore, accepted) this symbolism is in our culture.
Avoidance will never get you anywhere.
Most students haven't got a clue where anything comes from and are constantly re-inventing the wheel.
I have to keep correcting basic mistakes about history, again and again and again.
They seem to think that the documentaries about history and the wikipedia pages that they read and the "history light" that they get tells them everything that they absolutely need to know. They will argue with me in class - until they go and actually get the facts from those boring tomes.
And they don't understand that there is more than one answer or solution to an historical question - and that doesn't make different answers right or wrong - only different interpretations (WELL, THAT IS WHAT WE HISTORIANS DO, ISN'T IT - ARGUE, ARGUE, ARGUE in a civilized manner, of course :-))
The more information, that is, primary source material, that we get, the more we understand about a period of time in history. That doesn't mean that past explanations were stupid or "wrong", they were the best past that people could come up with given the information (& worldview) that they had.
Goes for real life too.
Anybody for Doctor Who's time machine? If only .....................sigh................
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