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Oh no! I am a poor professor who is being censored, because a few students want a 1 sentence warning about potentially traumatic experiences! Look at how my ri

Oh no! I am a poor professor who is being censored, because a few students want a 1 sentence warning about potentially traumatic experiences! Look at how my rights are being infringed on, because of a 1 sentence warning that I am being "Forced" to include! Warnings are the same as censorship! Students should do exactly as I tell them to do, and have no right to ask me for any accommodations at all, no matter how trivially easy it is for me to include them. Censorship! First Amendment rights! Big Brother! /s

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jtbigwoo 11y ago
It seemed to me that the problem is an out-of-touch professor rather than the material. Who discusses Persephone and glosses over the rape part? Especially in an introductory course? At least half the class was probably wondering what the hell was going on. The author of the article seems to willfully miss the point. He pats himself on the back for reading Mein Kampf. What do you think would happen if a professor assigned Mein Kampf and then didn't talk about anti-Semitism? Would the author be telling the students to keep quiet? The student in the example read the material. Despite being "triggered", the student came to class to discuss the material. She's probably thinking, "that was tough to get through; I hope we have a good discussion of the issues in the text." She gets to class and the professor spends most of the time talking about style rather than substance and then brushes her off after class. I'd be frustrated, too.