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.
Old English dragon-slaying epic Beowulf has been hit with a wide variety of trigger warnings, including one in regards to “animal cruelty”.
The British University of Chester has placed a trigger warning on J.K. Rowling’s book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
The BBC has added trigger warnings to the American sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and British comedy classic Blackadder, claiming that they contain “discriminatory jokes” which may cause “offence”.
The BBC was roundly mocked after iPlayer users discovered it had put a trigger warning on classic children’s television show Brum.
Baylor University admitted this week that it regrets its decision to place a “sensitive content” warning sign next to a 9/11 memorial consisting of American flags that was put together by the Young Conservatives of Texas. A university spokesperson said that the sign was placed in an effort to protect students that might have a strong emotional reaction to the display.
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Sky has added trigger warnings to Disney’s Aladdin — both the 1992 original and the 2019 remake — warning its “outdated attitudes” may “cause offence today”.
Leeds Trinity University in the United Kingdom has told its lecturers to avoid using capital letters in their classroom handouts because they upset students, and can “scare students into failure.”
Google Maps has removed a feature that informed users how many calories they could burn by walking, which took the form of counting how many cupcakes would be burned off based on the distance, following complaints by users that claimed it was “triggering.”
National Public Radio added a “trigger warning” to the start of a story on All Things Considered on Monday evening about President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to appoint Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon as Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor.
Archaeology students at one of Britain’s leading universities have been given permission to skip lectures if they feel they might be “triggered” by upsetting material like the scary skulls of dead people or traumatising accounts of how they met their ends.
In the interview with The Blaze, Cruz also denounced President Obama’s plan to hand Internet domain registration over to foreign bodies as “reminiscent of Jimmy Carter’s idea to give away the Panama Canal,” warning it would imperil American interests and “undermine free speech.” Cruz is correct on all counts, and it’s a pity the rest of the Republican field hesitates to address these issues with such verve.
After yet another mass shooting on campus, the time may have come to retire the phrase “trigger warning” itself.
The new breed of enforced intellectual conformity is so tedious and shrill. Fascists don’t even bother to put on snappy uniforms any more.
