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let me hear your voice tonight ([personal profile] alexseanchai) wrote2015-09-13 04:48 pm
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Some days I really wish learning the meanings of and differences between kinks, squicks, and triggers, and when to label content for which, was a mandatory part of high school.

...anti-trigger-warning people on Facebook, you see. Virulently so. Viciously so. I respect "choose not to warn", but at least that warning tag respects the concept of warnings and is not masquerading as "no warnings apply"!
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silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)

[personal profile] silveradept 2015-09-14 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Ouch, ouch, ouch. Seems like the people against warnings also tend to want to post more aggressive things.
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)

[personal profile] alexseanchai 2015-09-15 12:50 am (UTC)(link)

Yes. And heaven forbid that anyone be more fragile than the speakers themselves (those who have survived the things that pro-warning people generally agree should be warned for, anyway). Such fragile people need to be condemned to a life of low-pay, low-status jobs because they're not cut out for college because they wish to have trigger warnings on material that will remind them of their traumas. And not coddled, absolutely not coddled, which is what providing the warnings would be. When providing the warnings isn't flat out censorship, anyway.

I hate this argument and I don't know how I keep getting myself stuck in the middle of it.

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[personal profile] silveradept 2015-09-15 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
It's distressingly common for that argument to be present with people who also believe that we are in a world where political correctness had gone out of control. The common thread seems to be that the speaker's right to say whatever they want is paramount over all other considerations, including the harm they can do by speaking.
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[personal profile] alexseanchai 2015-09-15 02:49 am (UTC)(link)

political correctness treating people with respect

...ye gods I wish everyone knew that reference

silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)

[personal profile] silveradept 2015-09-15 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Indeed. With that substitution, it becomes much clearer that it's not really possible to say it's gone out of control, unless you're the kind of person that does think some people don't deserve respect. Like someone aggressively anti-trigger warnings.

*sigh*
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