Expel People Who Demand Trigger Warnings

By Published on September 11, 2015

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and Foundation for Individual Rights in Education President Greg Lukianoff recently wrote a tour de force of an article entitled, “The Coddling of the American Mind.” In response, Maddy Myers of The Mary Sue wrote an article so petulant it verges on self-parody. Worse yet, it is insulting to the readers’ intelligence, insofar as Myers apparently believes that an article coauthored by a decades-long veteran of studying psychology (Haidt) simply suffers from a failure to understand post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Among the more amusing bits of Myers’ non-response is an admission that she “[doesn’t] have evidence back up [her] claims of how these warnings work,” but doeshave “a lot of anecdotal stories from friends about how they have trouble predicting what will ‘set off’ their anxiety.”

Read the article “Expel People Who Demand Trigger Warnings” on thefederalist.com.

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