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How the hell did this guy get flagged? Is SJW a trigger word now?

• rosser 8y ago
  No, but it's corrosive to constructive discourse, per my other comment. I'm legit a little slack-jawed in "did you really go there?" to see this comment adjacent to that, considering. EDIT: I didn't flag that comment, fwiw. EDIT 2: "Trigger word" is another great example. That's a dismissive use of the notion, implying the people being "triggered" are irrational, emotional, and, by inference, wrong. It's an ad hominem, and it's destructive discourse. I don't know when we decided it was cool to conflate people expressing disapproval with people who've been traumatized and are reacting to a stimulus that's evocative of their trauma, but it's not. Speaking as someone who's experienced multiple kinds of the traumas that can legitimately warrant "trigger warnings", it's really, really not. I truly want to understand how someone thinks they can talk to and about people like that, and then cry foul at blowback.