>I would've hoped that an expert who was lecturing about language and culture would've anticipated the problem, and been more sensitive to it. If you're speaki

>I would've hoped that an expert who was lecturing about language and culture would've anticipated the problem, and been more sensitive to it. If you're speaking Mandarin you are going to hear this homophone with even less context than the professor is giving. Should professors slow down their lectures (which he did explaining the context) or compromise their education by simply not covering the topic to protect the sensibilities of adults? >One reason I would suspect it's a problem (which I heard in a TV show, in which a character explains how an anti-gay slur is hurtful to them), is that they grew up hearing that slur hurled in the context of other injustices, from childhood. I can also imagine that insensitivity to how hurtful a slur is could feel like a signal that someone doesn't understand or care about the associated injustices. Trigger warnings are not meaningfully helpful or harmful https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2167702619827018?journalCode=cpxa& https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/216770261982701... I've at least experienced hearing slurs in negative contexts, and people discussing them brashly without "contextualizing" it. Sometimes it's pretty jarring, sometimes it feels bad. I still have absolutely no patience for not even engaging in, but enforcing under threat to somebodies career that they engage in the practice of trigger warnings. That is just using peoples suffering to push a personal agenda which nominally will help other people but which evidence shows will not help other people.