trigger warnings

In Friday’s episode of his HBO show “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the comedian castigated woke culture and its deleterious effects on the country, citing a study that found trigger warning not only don’t work but actually could be more harmful than helpful.

Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London has added a trigger warning before a production of the Bard’s famed Tragedy of Julius Caesar.

PBS asked the Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans for a “warning for viewers” over “graphic” content at Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Confirmation Hearings, according to a message obtained by Breitbart News.

George Orwell’s ‘1984’ has been given a trigger warning by a British university following concerns that students could find it “offensive and upsetting”.

A London theatre has added a ‘trigger warning’ to its production of William Shakespeare’s 415-year-old play Macbeth, because it contains scenes of violence, suicide, fake blood, and smoking.

A Cambridge University archive will begin slapping “trigger warnings” onto classic children’s books — such as Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House On The Prairie — over the books’ so-called “harmful content.”

Thousands of children’s books, such as Dr Seuss, have been slapped with trigger warnings by Cambridge University for alleged racism.

The BBC was roundly mocked after iPlayer users discovered it had put a trigger warning on classic children’s television show Brum.

Sixteen films including Aliens, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Flash Gordon, The Jungle Book, and Lawrence of Arabia have been given trigger warnings for their “outdated attitudes” by Comcast-owned Sky in the UK as a Black Lives Matter inspired Cultural Revolution sweeps the country

Comcast-owned Sky has added trigger warnings to Disney’s Aladdin — both the 1992 original and the 2019 remake — warning its “outdated attitudes” may “cause offence today”.

Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher warned against the dangers of identity politics in his Christmas morning homily, suggesting that today’s snowflakes risk falling victims to a toxic narcissism.

Psychologists at Harvard University say they have found substantial evidence that “trigger warnings” do not actually help trauma survivors, and in fact, may actually be harmful to individuals. “There is no evidence-based reason to use them,” said the researchers.

Writing for The Hill this week, Emory University Professor Dabney P. Evans argued that students don’t benefit from trigger warnings.

A group of psychologists at Harvard University published a report last week that argues that “trigger warnings” only serve to stress out those that they are designed to protect.

Some feminists are urging participants in the Women’s March this year to ditch their pink pussyhats for fear they may be offensive to those biological men who claim to be women and to people of color.

Students at the prestigious Cambridge University have been given “trigger warnings” ahead of a Shakespeare reading assignment because the assigned play involves depictions of sexual violence.

British universities must take action to halt a growing climate of censorship on campus, Baroness Ruth Smeeth has said, warning that authorities are pandering to the demands of “ever more censorious students.”

Netflix has added trigger warnings to its latest teen drama series 13 Reasons Why following criticism from viewers that the show glorifies suicide and rape.

University of California president Janet Napolitano has attacked “free speech Darwinism” in an op-ed to be published in Sunday’s Boston Globe. While her essay purports to be a defense of free speech, what Napolitano actually does is built a crafty defense of “safe spaces,” “trigger warnings,” and so-called “responsibility.”

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – An organization of social justice-oriented students at Louisiana State University (LSU) have planned a “response” effort to Breitbart Tech Editor Milo Yiannopoulos’ upcoming lecture, claiming he promotes hate and intolerance.

“Social justice warriors” (SJWs) — those perennially prone to offense by the slightest hint of political incorrectness or simple diversity of opinion — have a new coping tool, thanks to Project Veritas filmmaker James O’Keefe: the emotional first aid kit.

The Provost of George Washington University has indicated that his administration will reject a policy of using “trigger warnings,” according to the university’s student paper.

Actress and comedian Amy Schumer defended embattled Inside Amy Schumer writer Kurt Metzger, who mocked and belittled women who accused fellow comedian Aaron Glaser of sexual assault.

The University of Chicago has warned incoming freshmen not to expect a culture of ‘safe spaces’ and ‘trigger warnings’ during their time at university.

Law students at Oxford University, one of the world’s leading law schools, are being warned before lectures on violent subject matter that they can leave if they find the content too “distressing.”

Another day, another story of left-wing students getting inordinately upset over words. This time the ruckus comes from Ohio University.

On Monday, January 10, Young America’s Foundation announced that it would be sending Breitbart News senior editor-at-large Ben Shapiro on a tour of college campuses around America to battle the resurgent campus radical left.

The Liberal Canadian government, led by Justin Trudeau, has again made a mockery of itself.

Modern Educayshun, a short film by Neel Kolhatkar, is a hilarious take on social justice and Oppression Olympics culture, and we urge you to watch it. https://youtu.be/iKcWu0tsiZM It’s the followup to his short film #Equality, which enjoyed over a million views and has been

I am sufficiently “dangerous” to the “safety” of University of Manchester students that I have to be surrounded by security and any event that features me must be ticketed and the number of seats restricted, according to that university’s Student

Laura Kipnis, the Northwestern University professor who had two Title IX complaints filed against her, has been cleared of wrongdoing by the law firm hired to investigate the claims.

Kirsten Powers’ new book The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech surveys the political landscape of the past couple years and finds something new to worry about. A self-described liberal, Powers writes that the “illiberal left” is trying to dominate the discussion on campus, online and in the media through intimidation. In our discussion, Powers suggests there is an authoritarian impulse at play, one that has been gaining steam in the broader culture.

It is said that those who would trade essential liberty for security deserve neither. That goes for the liberty of ideas as well. Ideas that cannot survive the slightest contact with contrary thought are not worth having.

Equity feminist and former philosophy professor Christina Hoff Sommers is not a particularly threatening figure. But student activists at Oberlin and Georgetown colleges, where Sommers recently spoke, were insistent that her presence on their campuses posed a threat to the student