{"id":28721,"date":"2014-11-21T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T05:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28721"},"modified":"2015-03-27T09:33:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T13:33:49","slug":"qotd-trigger-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/11\/21\/qotd-trigger-warnings\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Trigger warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I like trigger warnings. I like them because they\u2019re not censorship, they\u2019re the opposite of censorship. Censorship says \u201cRead what we tell you\u201d. The opposite of censorship is \u201cRead whatever you want\u201d. The philosophy of censorship is \u201cWe know what is best for you to read\u201d. The philosophy opposite censorship is \u201cYou are an adult and can make your own decisions about what to read\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>And part of letting people make their own decisions is giving them relevant information and trusting them to know what to do with them. Uninformed choices are worse choices. Trigger warnings are an attempt to provide you with the information to make good free choices of reading material.<\/p>\n<p>And my role model here, as in so many other places, is Commissioner Lal: \u201cBeware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott Alexander, <a href=\"http:\/\/slatestarcodex.com\/2014\/05\/30\/the-wonderful-thing-about-triggers\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Wonderful Thing About Triggers&#8221;, <em>Slate Star Codex<\/em><\/a>, 2014-05-30. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like trigger warnings. I like them because they\u2019re not censorship, they\u2019re the opposite of censorship. Censorship says \u201cRead what we tell you\u201d. The opposite of censorship is \u201cRead whatever you want\u201d. The philosophy of censorship is \u201cWe know what is best for you to read\u201d. The philosophy opposite censorship is \u201cYou are an adult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28,41],"tags":[459,238,1025],"class_list":["post-28721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-media","category-quotations","tag-censorship","tag-offensensitivity","tag-triggerwarnings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7tf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28722,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28721\/revisions\/28722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}