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A not so convincing conservative (counter) narrative that lumps up the arguably questionable nature of trigger warnings with a russian imposed nuclear doomsday

by mxfh 9y ago

A not so convincing conservative (counter) narrative that lumps up the arguably questionable nature of trigger warnings with a russian imposed nuclear doomsday scenario? That assumption that a russian bomb was merely a copy of the the American effort, spying helped it speed up, but mostly prevented costly mistakes for the soviets is just another example of american exceptionalism. Would rather watch Adam Curtis' Power of Nightmares again, blaming the culture of fear rightly and mostly on the rise of neoconservatives.

Ygg2 9y ago
> A not so convincing conservative (counter) narrative that lumps up the arguably questionable nature of trigger warnings Conservative? Can trigger warning exist without fearing something? I think the author describes evolution of fear.
- mxfh 9y ago
  I wouldn't call this fear, but a, yet to be proven effective, strategy to avoid retraumatization. The motivation, as I understand it, is actually to enable and prepare more people reading things they would be otherwise afraid of, so quite the opposite of fear. Besides some right wing people seeing this as one of the horsemen of the end of free speech, this relatively obscure and confined practice simply doesn't warrant mentioning it on level akin with national doctrines like MAD.
amalcon 9y ago
The narrative didn't seem all that conservative to me -- it attacks conservatives at least as much as liberals, and concludes that the election of DJT is the present culmination of the trend. I do take issue with pulling trigger warnings in here (though, in fairness, that was a minor part in the article), just because it's re-enforcing a very negative trend. Trigger is a term of art in psychology, related to post-traumatic stress disorder. It specifically refers to a stimulus triggering a fight-or-flight response in a situation where it would not be called for in someone without PTSD. We should be giving this clinical issue the respect it deserves, and not conflating it with the things we are more abstractly afraid of.

by mxfh 9y ago

Ygg2 9y ago

> A not so convincing conservative (counter) narrative that lumps up the arguably questionable nature of trigger warnings Conservative? Can trigger warning exist without fearing something? I think the author describes evolution of fear.

mxfh 9y ago
I wouldn't call this fear, but a, yet to be proven effective, strategy to avoid retraumatization. The motivation, as I understand it, is actually to enable and prepare more people reading things they would be otherwise afraid of, so quite the opposite of fear. Besides some right wing people seeing this as one of the horsemen of the end of free speech, this relatively obscure and confined practice simply doesn't warrant mentioning it on level akin with national doctrines like MAD.

amalcon 9y ago

The narrative didn't seem all that conservative to me -- it attacks conservatives at least as much as liberals, and concludes that the election of DJT is the present culmination of the trend. I do take issue with pulling trigger warnings in here (though, in fairness, that was a minor part in the article), just because it's re-enforcing a very negative trend. Trigger is a term of art in psychology, related to post-traumatic stress disorder. It specifically refers to a stimulus triggering a fight-or-flight response in a situation where it would not be called for in someone without PTSD. We should be giving this clinical issue the respect it deserves, and not conflating it with the things we are more abstractly afraid of.