When Trigger Warnings Offend
by The Atlantic
Aug 27, 2015
2 minutes
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021.
Atlantic reader Paula has a similar stance on trigger warnings as the college instructor who was raped:
I was in a literature class when my professor read a poem that was in the perspective of someone jumping off a skyscraper. This was the method my
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