What. The. Merry. Fuck.
Jan. 27th, 2016 10:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76Normally I think my classmates in my writing class are relatively intelligent, sane people. Well, with a possible caveat for the one person who takes Fox News seriously.
But tonight, somehow, the topic of colleges putting trigger warnings on works for literature classes came up, and I am AGHAST that at least one of my classmates and the teacher were comparing this to censorship and book banning.
What. The. Merry. Fuck.?!
How the hell does saying "this work contains scenes of rape/incest/racism/ableism/name-your-social-ill-here" equate to changing or removing a single WORD of that work? All it does is warn those people who might be hurt by it that they need to either shore themselves up or have a word with their professor.
To boot, the classmate who was against it blamed the ACLU.
She has been in a wheelchair for years.
I guess the ACLU is only useful when it's putting in wheelchair ramps, not when it's taking care of people's psychological health?
I am just, ARGH, I have no words. Frothing at the mouth at the cruelty and callousness of people I like. You can BELIEVE I argued my point.
Maybe it's because I'm younger (by a generation or two) than these people, and cut my writing teeth on fanfiction and the internet, where warning tags are more notable in their absence than their presence.
But saying "this story contains these things" is NOT censorship. It's not book banning. It's saying what's in the story.
When did common courtesy become oppression?
But tonight, somehow, the topic of colleges putting trigger warnings on works for literature classes came up, and I am AGHAST that at least one of my classmates and the teacher were comparing this to censorship and book banning.
What. The. Merry. Fuck.?!
How the hell does saying "this work contains scenes of rape/incest/racism/ableism/name-your-social-ill-here" equate to changing or removing a single WORD of that work? All it does is warn those people who might be hurt by it that they need to either shore themselves up or have a word with their professor.
To boot, the classmate who was against it blamed the ACLU.
She has been in a wheelchair for years.
I guess the ACLU is only useful when it's putting in wheelchair ramps, not when it's taking care of people's psychological health?
I am just, ARGH, I have no words. Frothing at the mouth at the cruelty and callousness of people I like. You can BELIEVE I argued my point.
Maybe it's because I'm younger (by a generation or two) than these people, and cut my writing teeth on fanfiction and the internet, where warning tags are more notable in their absence than their presence.
But saying "this story contains these things" is NOT censorship. It's not book banning. It's saying what's in the story.
When did common courtesy become oppression?
