greg: coming up, do trigger warnings do more harm than good? warnings do more harm than good? however so you just walk around telling people geico could help them save money on car insurance? yea,that and homeowners, renters, motorcycle and boat insurance. huh.that s nice. what happens when you catch a fish? gecko: whoa. geico. more than just car insurance. see how much you could save at geico.com. i m ok!
load on two drones but exploded before reaching the president. one expert said maduro will use this incident for further purges of disloyal officials and further clamp-downs on civil liberties. police in portland, oregon used blash bangs to try to break up a protest. a reporter for the newspaper was injured. no other injuries were reported. d campaign officials. now back to the greg gutfeld show. greg: now, a story about trigger warnings which calls for a trigger warning. old people get the reference.
[laughter] a new study from harvard, a school finds that trigger warnings may do more harm than good. we have seen these from books depicting violence. one group got a trigger warning, one didn t. what they found is that trigger warnings increase people s emotional vulnerability to trauma. if you re someone who believes words can hurt you, a trigger warning makes it worse. that is crazy. somebody who may have been able to handle something shocking would be less able to handle it because of the warning. trigger warnings are causing pain not preventing it. this is nuts. i ve come up with a great new product. one that counters trigger warnings with a blunt world advice from someone you know well. sometimes i want direction and advice from a favorite strategists. why canno why can t i have both?
when my dr. does certain exams he talks to me while he was doing it so i m not paying attention. and then i say what just happened. it s so much better. greg: you are shocked by his finger. a sneak attack. greg: are you saying that wasn t a question? it was not a question at all. greg: it was a statement wrapped am a question. what are your thoughts am general? i think it is ridiculous to warn people. i learned something new today and i love trigger warnings. can i get a trigger warning when you go on a date? instead of stocking will kat, last word.
greg: am the world world, you will get a trigger warning. i did not have a trigger warning about the alligator going into the convenience store. had i known they would be terrorizing people i may have prepared myself and not embarrassed the network by saying a bad word on live television. greg: on the five, dana said something awful on the show which embarrassed her cohost. if i had known the alligator was going to do that, i might not have cause the problem. trigger warnings are like spoilers, isn t it better to find out things. i ll be real honest, my definition of trigger warnings is a lot different than yours.