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“Just don’t look at it if you don’t like it,” shrugged Simon…

One of Simon’s friends, Jay Cooper, said, “I saw the thing before I knew not to look. If I’d known it was there, I wouldn’t have looked. But then I’d have still known he’d done it, which is the real issue here, if you follow me.

I really like this. Suprisingly salient

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“If you don’t like it, then don’t look.”, said same demograph that can’t stop obsessing over Disney being “woke”.

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The same demographic that apparently believes with every ounce of their soul that they won’t be able to explain why “woke” is wrong to their children to the point they need to abandon their long-professed belief in small government.

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It really is. It’s the same victim blaming logic you get with cyber-bullying. Simply not looking at it doesn’t change the fact that it is there in the first place.

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Just like trigger warnings aren’t effective and actually make things worse…

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Trigger warnings aren’t effective for everyone and can sometimes make things worse is what you mean

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21677026231186625

Conclusion Existing research on content warnings, content notes, and trigger warnings suggests that they are fruitless, although they do reliably induce a period of uncomfortable anticipation. Although many questions warrant further investigation, trigger warnings should not be used as a mental-health tool.

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Trigger warning...

…work if they are done properly

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for some “the spectrum” is become a lonely corner quadrant rarely visited by anyone with tasks to finish or a sense of self-kindness

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I’m convinced most of them are Russian bots. Now with be help of chat gpt

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give em the old “ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about frogs”

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Is the name of that man Lemmy?

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Bro is posting from the 2004 Compaq special

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