"The Trigger Warning Myth/Coddled students aren't the cause of a mental health crisis on campus. They're just pawns in the culture wars."

A piece in The New Republic by Aaron R. Hanlon reacting to that Atlantic article "The Coddling of the American Mind" by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.

Hanlon says:

I write this as a professor.... Here’s a brief and by no means exhaustive list of things I’ve carefully selected for college syllabi and deliberately taught in college courses: a pair of poems about impotence and premature ejaculation; a satire about slaughtering human infants and feeding them to the poor; a poem that uses the c-word twice in a mere 33 lines, and describes King Charles II in coitus with his mistress with the phrase “his dull, graceless bollocks hang an arse”; a novel in which a wealthy man gets his maid to marry him by kidnapping her and continually cornering her with unwanted sexual advances; a graphic history of the torture methods and other cruelties done to African slaves leading up to the Haitian Revolution; a poem written in the voice of a male domestic servant and attempted rapist contacting his victim from prison....