[Isoverity]

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Originally Posted by beautiful_seclusion

ICollege is meant to challenge your ideas, beliefs, and thoughts about difficult and important topics. It's ok if someone is not ready for that, but then they need to adjust their topic of study or get treatment to where triggers are not so strong as to necessitate this. And if it simply makes you uncomfortable, then you need to realize that this is what college is for! It's supposed to make you think about uncomfortable things. And if it's going to the point of triggering you where you can't function, that's a sign you need to get professional treatment and reconsider if this is where you should be right now.

What's happening (and what's going on @ US colleges/unis might be different form UK) is that people are morphing the psychology forum labels and giving them a political function. I know they talk about psychological dynamics and need for "protection" etc but in larger view I see where this is going since there are people very opposed to ideas and speech and would like to criminalize them - all while pretending to be protecting rights. In recent weeks there have been calls to arrest and punish people for disagreeing with anthropogenic global warming. This sort of thing is cropping up all around.

"Disagree with climate change deniers? Throw ‘em in jail"

http://www.indystar.com/story/opinio...-jail/7162971/