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Ep 90 | Kanye & Antisemitism, Trigger Warnings, Georgia Midterms

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Is a Trigger Warning Harmful or Helpful?

A New Yorker article by Jeanie Sue Gerson says teachers should not undertake being a therapist to their students. The idea that you need to prime it for everyone and make everyone feel like, Oh, there might be something wrong in this class, or I need to be on heightened alert is detrimental," she writes. "The general takeaway from the science on this is that at best, it has no effect in actually negating the distress that people have"

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