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Trigger Warnings Argumentative Analysis

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Since overprotective parents converted their children to become more fragile and emotional those kids that went to universities took with them their weak-minded and pampered attitudes. Which resulted in the much controversial topic, whether professors trigger warnings should be mandatory for all lectures in order to avoid any student to be bombarded with any unwanted discomfort on memories. Trigger warnings prevent professors from teaching certain topics which allow students to avoid those controversial lectures will end up preparing the students poorly for their future and as well as preventing them from discovering who their lives and their minds true potential. However some people might argue that trigger mornings are only meant to warn …show more content…

According to the creator of trigger warnings herself, Bailey Loverin, argues they are, "'not talking about someone turning away from something they don't want to see,"' (Medina 92). Loverin states that trigger warnings aren't meant for students to use as a free pass to avoid a certain topic that might cause them discomfort but are suppose to use to just warn students that they will see images or read texts that might cause violent or depressing images from their pass that might cause them to have a panic attack on the middle of the class. Even professors like Angus Johnston, a history professor in Hostos college in New York, agree that trigger warning should be used in class because it, "prepare[s] the reader for what's coming so their attention isn't hijacked when it arrives" (Johnston). Professors like Johnston agree with trigger warnings for the sake of their student's attention to his lecture because if trigger warnings were not used in lectures then when students with previous traumas read or see certain things might be too distraught to focus on their lectures. Trigger warnings are suppose to be used to prepare students to confront a certain traumatic topic not completely turn them away from it but like everything else in the world most humans always find a way to distort the meaning of cause and use it for their liking. For example , "law students [are] asking her fellow professors at Harvardnot to teach rape law... [or] use the word violate... lest it cause students distress" (Hardt and Lukianoff 44). Students have completely twisted the meaning of trigger warnings that they are using that excuse to demand ridiculously things that make no sense. The example of the students not wanting to learn rape law because it causes distress is

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