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http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/19/us-students-request-trigger-warnings-in-literature
Students in America have been asking for "trigger warnings" to be included on works of literature which deal with topics such as rape or war.
The request was formally made by the student government at the University of California in Santa Barbara, according to the New York Times, which yesterday also cited similar requests from students at Oberlin College, Rutgers University, the University of Michigan, George Washington University and other places.
Books which have been named by students as potentially requiring "trigger warnings" - the term is used to warn readers of possibly distressing material to follow - include Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, and The Merchant of Venice. A draft trigger warning policy from Oberlin, quoted in Inside Higher Education, used Achebe's acclaimed text as an example of a work which might require a warning, saying the novel was "a triumph of literature that everyone in the world should read. However, it may trigger readers who have experienced racism, colonialism, religious persecution, violence, suicide, and more."
What the fuck is wrong with these people?