“Trigger warnings” have a years-long, storied history on America’s college campuses, despite recent studies showing they do not work.
A recent Harvard study found “no evidence” that trigger warnings are helpful, and that they, in fact, may harm actual trauma survivors because they “countertherapeutically reinforce survivors’ view of their trauma as central to their identity.”
“countertherapeutically reinforce survivors’ view of their trauma as central to their identity”
A similar…