Trigger Warnings and Safe Spaces

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2017

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Are trigger warnings a helpful tool for avoiding potentially harmful distress, or the enabling of hypersensitivity and a victim culture? We discuss trigger warnings and "safe spaces" in this (inevitably controversial) broadcast. Guests include a few activists in the freethought movement, and psychologists Dr. Caleb Lack and Dr. Valerie Tarico.

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0:36.0	Assume nothing.
0:38.0	Branch, ball, phase, blast for me.
0:40.0	Question, everything.
0:42.0	Find it extremely hard to imagine. Open your eyes.
0:46.0	It is quite alright to be an atheist.
0:48.0	The fastest growing group of people in the country has been measured as being those who have no belief or who are atheists.
0:55.0	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:58.0	Challenge the opposition.
0:59.0	You see religion on a hundred fronts losing the argument.
1:02.0	And start thinking.
1:08.0	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
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