I hope you remember College Girls Gone Wild! From The College Fix:
TRENDING: Libraries attach trigger warnings to historical resource catalogs
This may hurt to know but people in the past had no idea that some day, people who imagine themselves to be intellectuals would be so injured by language that today we consider hateful and offensive that even reading a description would be problematic.
A couple years ago, I used a small news clipping in an American History class that referred to a "Negro banker." I had at least one student who apparently thought the N-word was "Negro." I shudder to think what their reaction would be to the United Negro College Fund or the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
If you cannot read a catalog entry with some offensive antique words without blowing a gasket, maybe history or even academic study is not for you. Find a field more appropriate to you: unicorn breeding.
God knows what the reaction would be in a Literature class when some professor wanted to compare a different literary work with "The N***r as Narcissus.
ReplyDeleteIf this trigger crap is so powerful as to trigger the intellectual snowflakes with a title that is seen in a search result, then we are truly F***d and must keep all the history from 920 to 999 in a separate room with a separate search engine. While they are segregating that, they'll have to include Huckleberry Finn, because while he portrayed Jim the slave as the only ethical and moral adult in the novel, Twain also freely had the venial white adults calling Jim and any other slaves as the narrative warranted to have realistic antebellum South dialogue, "N***rs."
And let's not forget the High School Junior snowflakes who were offended and triggered when the teacher brought to class some cotton bolls that still contained the seeds that Eli Whitney helped improve the means of removing, so that you didn't have to be Pharaoh or the king of England to be able to afford clothing made of the stuff.