The school’s reaction seems especially arbitrary when you learn that — on the very same night of the “tequila party,” just across campus — Bowdoin held its annual, administration-sanctioned “Cold War” party. Students arrived dressed in fur hats and coats to represent Soviet culture; one referred to herself as “Stalin,” making light of a particularly painful era in Slavic history.
Lol, mental illness for these coddled kids is truly terrible, she looks like a 5 year old having a tantrum.
Its been turned into a gif now (by me):
They are destined to be barristers and judges – but undergraduates studying law at Oxford are being told before lectures on cases involving violence or death that they can leave if they fear the content will be too ‘distressing’.
The revelation marks the arrival from the US of ‘trigger warnings’ – the politically correct notion that students should be warned before they encounter material that could elicit a traumatic response.
Lecturers have been asked by the director of undergraduate studies for law to ‘bear in mind’ using trigger warnings when they give lectures containing ‘potentially distressing’ content.
Pretty sure there was a story in the news a while back about a murder detective having to go for counselling because they saw a dead body. Who'd have thunk it eh, a murder detective seeing a dead person?
Pretty sure there was a story in the news a while back about a murder detective having to go for counselling because they saw a dead body. Who'd have thunk it eh, a murder detective seeing a dead person?