Atlantic: I was wrong about trigger warnings
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Wait, is this author seriously going to say trigger warnings are causing this?
Is that how they are going to ignore the real problem, scapegoat trigger warnings and pronouns? The two things that nobody likes?
Boy, how convenient!
I can see the reasoning behind it. Trigger warnings imply that merely being exposed to ideas is harmful. Trigger warning begin propagating and so the easily influenced become convinced they’re being harmed.
I don’t know if there’s a word for this phenomenon, but some people obviously conceive of language as a collection of passwords rather than a means of communication. The migrants says “asylum” or “refugee” not because these things are true but because saying these things gets the migrant what he wants. The leftist says “microaggression” or “triggered” not because these words describe a genuine feeling but because saying these words grants the leftist power over you. The idiot accuse you of fallacies not because you have committed any but rather because he has seen someone else succeed with similar accusations. This behavior is rampant in low IQ groups, who are simply parroting the actions of others in order to receive the same resources. Such tactics are also frequently deployed by bad actors who cynically abuse such “passwords” to achieve their most self-serving goals.
I don’t know how you engage or counteract such people.
This makes me think of NPC scripting as 'spells' or a kind of 'word magick' that is supposed to create the desired effect. It's an aping of language by intellects not sufficient to generate their own arguments. And calling it out gets you branded a bigot, because any discrimination at all is bigotry to the left. All standards are oppression, etc. etc. It's very tiresome.
And heaven forfend you should go after the anointed ones who are writing said codes!