Advocates for the use of trigger warnings suggest that they can help people avoid or emotionally prepare for encountering content related to a past trauma. But trigger warnings may not fulfill either of these functions, according to an analysis published in Clinical Psychological Science.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21677026231186625

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    That’s stupid. Those pixels on a screen can’t hurt anyone. And if you think otherwise, you should seek professional help instead of expecting from everyone else to adjust to your mental issues.

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      But it’s kinda stupid to cry about warnings too, why shouldn’t people be able to avoid content they don’t want to watch? If you’re such a tough guy that pixels don’t scare you then you’re tough enough that you can probably live through a world that chooses to make concessions in the form of content warnings for those who need or prefer them.

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        Why do these snowflakes just not filter the content like normal people? Most apps support this. Why does everybody else have to click away the CW just because a minuscule fraction of people might get irritated?

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          “Snowflake is a derogatory slang term for a person, implying that they have an inflated sense of uniqueness, an unwarranted sense of entitlement, or are overly emotional, easily offended, and unable to deal with opposing opinions”

          idk, you keep using this word but it applies more to your comments than to people that are just dealing with trauma…

          Also, I don’t use filters but I’ve heard from people that do that they are bad cause they might filter some things you’re okay with. Context matters.

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            Then how did these traumatised people ever watch the news on TV or read a newspaper where there are no CWs? How did they take part in discussions on Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc.? And how are they supposed to work through their trauma when they never get confronted with it?

            If they are okay with “some things”, they’d have to open each article behind a very generic CW-description anyways. What’s the purpose of the CW then?

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              That’s their problem. The thing here is you’re complaining about CW because you have to CLICK it, and can’t understand it’s useful for some people. Instead, you keep complaining and saying it’s useless.

              Can’t you be a bit empathic? Like “I don’t understand CW but some people want them, I can deal with having to click through the warning”. Or are you entitled to open things in one click over other people feeling comfortable?

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                So, you’re saying these traumatised people need to find ways to manage public TV and newspapers, but on Mastodon everybody else is supposed to accommodate for them and add CWs?

                Again, the people that might(!) profit from the CWs are a minuscule amount compared to the people inconvenienced by them. And, as the linked study explains, they even seem to make things worse. So my point is: Just get rid of them. According to that study, that might even be beneficial to these traumatised people.

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                  “these traumatised people” lol. It’s not even about that. The most common CW that you probably use and enjoy is the NSFW warning. You understand that you might be at work and not wanting to see nudity or gore or other sensitive stuff, right? If you’re eating while you’re browsing posts, maybe you want a “CW: poop” before you open a post and barf a bit because you’re eating, not because you can’t handle poop.

                  And yeah, “everyone else” is supposed to accommodate the minorities. Your rhetoric reeks of alt-right, I guess you’re “inconvenienced” by reserved parking spots, and for inclusive language, and want to “get rid of them” too?

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                    I’m sorry, but if somebody decides to browse their pr0n and scat alts while they’re at work and/or eating… that’s on them.

                    Your rhetoric reeks of alt-right, I guess you’re “inconvenienced” by reserved parking spots, and for inclusive language, and want to “get rid of them” too?

                    And this is how you demonstrate that you’re not interested in continuing this discussion. Thanks for the entertainment, though. :)

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          …aren’t the content warnings a form of filter? Are you such a snowflake that you’re absurdly triggered by having to click through something?

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      If only past trauma was so easy to deal with. Perhaps a little consideration for others in a social space isn’t too much to ask.

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        Honestly I’m sick of this shit. It really feels like we’ve stopped having consideration for trauma and are now just enabling it.

        Trauma sucks, but you have to get over it. That’s the goal. Not to live in a little bubble wrap reality. Society will not conform to your particular fucked-upness.

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          Like most healing processes, recovering from trauma takes time. It’s not reasonable to expect that everyone will be recovered from their trauma at any given time. And a society that won’t give people time to heal before dealing with more of the shit they’ve been through is more than a little flawed. Hell, some people deal with their trauma by rejecting empathy rather than acknowledge that they’ve been hurt. I know I did that for decades.

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            It’s not reasonable (or, I would argue, even HELPFUL) to have society censor itself to cater to the tiny number of traumatized people.

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              I would say it’s calloused not to. Moreover, estimates put PTSD rates in America at about 6%. That doesn’t sound tiny to me, and that’s not even traumatized people. That’s people so traumatized they can’t handle it in a typical manner and will probably need help to recover, not your run-of-the-mill trauma that we all deal with and move on. Note that even those without PTSD don’t need an extra helping of reality courtesy of random strangers on the internet while they’re dealing with their trauma.

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      Are we supposed to adjust to your mental issue of being irrationally angry at content warnings?