Abstract Trigger warnings are the latest concession to the notion espoused by some students and progressive professors that learning, particularly in higher education, should be pain-free psychologically. Such a premise is antithetical to the values of academic freedom and the marketplace of ideas and is inconsistent with students’ learning and confronting ideas with which they are unfamiliar and which are outside of their comfort zone. Yielding to demands for trigger warnings when exposing students to ideas, topics and exchanges that may become uncomfortable negates growth for students. In short, acquiescing to the self-serving demands for trigger warnings makes education nothing but the reaffirming of ideas and positions with which students enter the academy. This article may upset undergraduates and progressive faculty and administrators…deal with it.

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触发警告在学术上具有破坏性

摘要触发警告是对某些学生和进阶教授所拥护的观点的最新让步，即，特别是在高等教育中，学习应在心理上无痛苦。这样的前提与学术自由和思想市场的价值背道而驰，并且与学生学习和面对他们不熟悉的，超出其舒适范围的思想相矛盾。在使学生暴露于可能变得不舒服的想法，主题和交流时，会产生触发警告的要求，这不利于学生的成长。简而言之，对触发警报的自我服务要求的默许使得教育只不过是重申学生进入学院所用的思想和立场。