Here's the sort of person who actually can suffer trauma:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/04/22/a-judge-sentences-a-veteran-to-24-hours-in-jail-then-joins-him-behind-bars/?tid=pm_national_pop_b

I pity the poor sap who gets a public defender that skipped the lecture because of triggering on rape or armed robbery or whatever that guy is being charged for. Doubly so if that poor sap is actually innocent.

This 'empowers' SJWs and the students 'triggered' but adults will soon be saying "this material is for adults only, all others fail the class".

Otherwise as Shteti G says poor performance reviews will doom job opportunities (except for Human Resources),

What kind of world will it be when we have to give our lawyers, therapists, and doctors trigger warnings?

And once again, I must point out that "trigger-warnings" have no place outside a medical diagnosis of PTSD.

As long as they keep claiming to be triggered, I will keep on pointing this out. I consider this very important. And those that have co-opted this term need to be shamed.

And even more important is what "trigger-warnings" are for. People with PTSD do not use their triggers as leverage to bully people or reshape their surroundings so that everything that offends them can be removed.

Trigger-warnings are used to help PTSD patients control themselves. PTSD patients do not demand safe-spaces or that curriculum be adjusted for them. They learn to cope with what triggers them.

But I wrote an essay about that on my new Tumblr account. I find very helpful to have an outlet to express my feelings for the idiocy of today's world.

Amy, I hope you don't mind me linking my own blog post on your blog. If that's inappropriate, just remove it and let me know, so I know not to do it again.

Also, if you can, Amy, since I used your quote by Dr. Ofer Zur, can I ask where you got it from? It's this quote: “To meet the diagnostic criteria for PTSD, the stressor experienced must involve actual or threatened death or serious injury.”

I don't doubt the accuracy of his statement or that he actually said this; I just want to give the source on my own blog.

I know my stuff will never catch on with the Tumblr audience. I don't think anyone reads anything I write. I'm too wordy. But it is nice to be able to put my feelings into words and post them.

The first person singular appeared 19 times in that blog comment.

Was reading about the life of Andy Grove (Intel pres). From Hungary. During WWII, the armies passed over their town multiple times, a bomb landed on their house seconds after they got to the bomb shelter, they lost everything, and had to keep moving to avoid the Nazi death squads. Then, under the communists, he had to flee through the woods to Austria. Came to US penniless.
And he did not have PTSD.
What will triggered people do when there is a shooting in their neighborhood, someone they know is killed or raped? Will they tell the world to not tell them about it?

Craig: Where were you reading this?

http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/biography/F-L/Grove-Andy-1936.html

The title of Grove's 1996 book Only the Paranoid Survive sums up much of Grove's management philosophy. He came by his paranoia naturally: it was essential to his survival. He was born András Gróf into a not religious Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, which was ruled by a military dictator whose government persecuted Jews. That Gróf was not a Jewish surname may have helped his family avoid some of the worst of the persecution. As a small child, Grove had scarlet fever, which not only nearly killed him but also rendered him partly deaf. With the advent of World War II and Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, Hungary abandoned its official neutrality and joined the Germans. In 1944, when the war went badly for Germany, the Nazis overthrew the Hungarian government, fearing that the Hungarians were about to make peace with the Soviets. The rounding up of Jews for death camps and slave labor soon began. Grove's father was forced to serve in the German army at the Eastern Front, where he endured appalling tortures for the amusement of German soldiers. Grove and his mother hid under false names with a Christian family; almost every day was a close call, as soldiers snatched Jews off the streets and out of their homes. Then the Soviets fought their way into Budapest, bringing with them more persecution (and the rape of Grove's mother).

Grove wanted to be a journalist, but he discovered that journalistic success depended on the whims of political correctness, and he decided to enter a field where subjectivity would not affect judgments about his work; he chose to study chemistry. In 1956 Hungarians tried to replace their Communist government with a democracy, and the Soviet Union invaded their nation. There was fighting in Budapest's streets as young people tried to repel soldiers and tanks with small weapons and bottles filled with gasoline. Soviet troops began snatching young men and imprisoning, torturing, or killing them. Grove and his best friend, Janos Lanyi, fled to Austria, dodging Soviet troops, crawling in mud, afraid all the way. He had lived 20 years under murderous oppression, surviving by always remaining alert to the possibility that even a simple attempt to purchase a loaf of bread could cause him to disappear along with many other young Hungarians.

Are you Craig?

"The first person singular appeared 19 times in that blog comment."

And honestly. Yet, a more capable master of English prose would have been able to make it all about him without using it once.

Eh?

Are you Craig?