Students unable to “hear” sensitive words?
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correctThey can drink. Smoke pot. Watch about any kind of movie. But suddenly any words that can conjure up, anything at all offensive in anyone’s mind, should now be “off limits”. I wish I was kidding you.
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Harvard Law Prof. Jeannie Suk writing at newyorker.com, Dec. 15:Students seem more anxious about classroom discussion, and about approaching the law of sexual violence in particular, than they have ever been in my eight years as a law professor. Student organizations representing women’s interests now routinely advise students that they should not feel pressured to attend or participate in class sessions that focus on the law of sexual violence, and which might therefore be traumatic. These organizations also ask criminal-law teachers to warn their classes that the rape-law unit might “trigger” traumatic memories. Individual students often ask teachers not to include the law of rape on exams for fear that the material would cause them to perform less well. One teacher I know was recently asked by a student not to use the word “violate” in class—as in “Does this conduct violate the law?”—because the word was triggering. Some students have even suggested that rape law should not be taught because of its potential to cause distress.
via Notable & Quotable: Jeannie Suk – WSJ.
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