Fictional TV Satirist Jonathan Pie Goes Viral Attacking Liberal Students’ ‘Orwellian’ Tactics
Jonathan Pie: ‘All this youthful energy concentrating on stopping debates rather than winning them.’
Jonathan Pie: ‘All this youthful energy concentrating on stopping debates rather than winning them.’
‘It’s hard to know what triggers different people. Any opera would need to have 20 warnings.’
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The church asked, ‘Does saying the president’s name… compromise the safety of the worshipping community?’
‘I don’t think that we need to treat this person like a normal press secretary.’
Now they come with trigger warnings.
Trigger warnings are being issued before films by De Niro, Tarantino and even Alicia Silverstone…
Students should be clearly warned about ’emotionally triggering materials’.
But they’re at odds with the faculty senate, which adopted a free-speech resolution that rejects trigger warnings.
Sign warns students may be triggered by discussion of “sexual assault,” “sexual violence” or “abuse.”
What began as a legitimate psychological effect has morphed into an excuse not to take history class.