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[quote=Anonymous]As far as I can tell, "students want trigger warnings" means roughly "students want to be advised in advance what the basic content of the course is including areas that could potentially be incredibly upsetting or harmful to someone's mental health to be confronted with unprepared."

So... students want informed consent in advance to exactly what they're getting into?

That doesn't sound like a big deal to me, nor does it seem unreasonable. From what I have seen, television shows, movies, many commercials, news programs, and most books do this already. Doesn't seem too absurd to want to know what you're getting into in order to decide if you can handle it and know of any special preparation you might need to do in order to be ABLE to handle it, especially advance of a particularly intense class session/discussion.

I had an experience in high school where a friend's timely heads up about the plot of the next book our English class would be reading was definitely key to my ability to get through that portion of the class in a way that had me both focused enough to be able to do my best work in class and reasonably emotionally stable after class despite the subject matter hitting very close to a recent trauma I had experienced and was having a hard time dealing with, so I tend to be fairly supportive of trigger warnings or content advisories or whatever you want to call them.[/quote]

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