viewers and listeners? an idea of warn someone in advance they might run into material that might be upsetting or traumatic to readers. so it would be like sort of what we might say at beginning of a bad movie, an r-rated movie? pretty much, yeah. but the problem is that universities are in some cases being pressured to adopt these. and the problem with it is that trigger warnings are so fundamentally subjective that i think that the american association of university professors is entirely right to say, wait a second, if we have to guess what s going to upset any student in our class and warn them in advance, we re in trouble because that s impossible. if the culture needs to change, who s responsible for the change, students in the classes or colleges and universities themselves? i think it s colleges and universities themselves. i think that we have to train students in the art of debate, i think we have to get back to the old fashioned idea of hearing people out, you know
institute still exist. and they still do kind of non-partisan hard work around the world. of promoting small d democracy and promoting the institutions of civil society that any culture needs in order to have a functioning democracy. and you might imagine that is a sensitive and controversial issue. right? particularly in countries where their government doesn t really want democracy infecting the way they re ruling their people. it was meant to be provocative and controversial from the outset when reagan announced it. and that s proven to be true over the years. but these institutes still exist. these efforts. these american efforts still exist and persist around the world. even in very difficult circumstances. depending on the country where they re operating, they ve had hard times, they ve had near-death experiences.
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