Trigger warnings. Suddenly, they’re everywhere. So-called “triggers” have proliferated faster than “gender dysphoria” in a clique of teenage girls with Instagram accounts. And they’re every bit as real: which is to say, they’re a phony fad, cooked up by leftists terrified of having to debate their blatantly stupid ideas in the public sphere.
“Woke” publishing employees refuse to work on J K Rowling or Jordan Peterson’s new book, because it “triggers” them. University students ban Bettina Arndt or Charles Murray, because they “trigger” them. Morbidly-obese, purple-haired landwhales of indeterminate gender scream and flail their flabby arms because Ben Shapiro “triggers” them.
To “trigger” someone is to confront them with something that they’re afraid of. Woke leftists seem to be afraid of an awful lot of things, it would seem. But, in fact, they’re only really afraid of one thing: open debate.
That’s why their incessant screeching and crying about “triggers” is only ever about shutting up people who challenge the left’s absurd orthodoxies. It’s like screaming “Racist!” but with the added cachet of a spurious claim for protecting the fragile mental health of the sort of people whose mental health is already so fragile that the contents of their own underwear is apparently enough to push them over the edge.
But the Trigglypuffs’ claim that being forced to defend absurd ideas inflicts “trauma” on their fragile psyches is arrant bullshit – not to mention an insulting appropriation of the very real suffering of people who really are enduring real trauma.
Because people suffering real trauma aren’t told that they mustn’t ever confront the source of their real trauma.
As part of her work, Corrie Ackland collects some pretty strange objects.
She has toy spiders, snakes and lizards. Her office is stocked with picture books full of images of blood and needles[…]
That’s because Ms Ackland is a psychologist who treats phobias – a type of fear that causes someone distress or impairment.
These are genuine phobias, not made-up leftist fatwas like “transphobia”.
Ms Ackland’s VR phobia practice builds on exposure therapy, which has been around for decades and is the leading evidence-based treatment for anxiety disorders and phobias.
As the name suggests, it exposes someone gradually to the thing they’re afraid of. If it’s needles, they might first be exposed to images of needles, then practice syringing oranges, working up to getting an injection themselves.
In one telling exchange, Steven Crowder was told by an Antifa recruit about her supposed “triggers”. When Crowder politely enquired what those triggers were, she hemmed and hawed, then claimed that even talking about her alleged “triggers” was “triggering”.
As The Terminator’s Dr. Silberman would say, “See how clever it is? It doesn’t require a shred of proof.”
At the University of Oxford, researcher Poppy Brown is using VR therapy to help people with paranoia and delusions re-enter social situations.
“For people with psychosis, just walking down a street or going into a supermarket or a café can be extremely frightening,” she says.
ABC Australia
The only things that frighten the average “trigger-warning” lefist seem to be exercise, personal hygiene and free speech.
Those aren’t “phobias” and these lying creeps aren’t “triggered”: they’re just cowards.
And their “trigger” bullshit is an insult to the genuinely traumatised.
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