Unsafe Space: The Crisis of Free Speech on Campus by Slater

Author:Slater [Slater]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2016-04-12T16:00:00+00:00

The future before us if the most sweeping plans for ‘trigger warnings’ become reality, is a kind of arms race, where different groups of students demand that their highly particular, politicised sensitivities are as deserving of a trigger warning as any other. Everyone from anarchists to college Republicans will join in. Kids will feel trauma when their trauma isn’t recognised as trauma. ‘Trigger warnings’ will be as common and useless as ‘adult content’ warnings on HBO.

Everyone will be worse off.31

Friedersdorf is right. Trigger warnings push the bar ever lower for what is deemed unacceptably offensive, while the realm of unacceptable speech grows ever larger. This is a global race to the bottom, and it is being run most fiercely in higher education. In the process, candour, discussion, humour, honest dialogue and freedom of speech are imperilled.

Greg Lukianoff is the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and the author of Unlearning Liberty and Freedom From Speech.

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