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Why trigger warnings don't work

They only reached popular consciousness in the 2010s, when feminist blogs used them ahead of content about sexual violence

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Oct 21, 2021
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The science is in, but don’t expect that to change anything. According to at least 17 recent studies, trigger warnings — those advisories posted ahead of content some readers may find distressing — not only fail to alleviate suffering in the emotionally disturbed but may actually induce greater trauma in those individuals.

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