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Do you feel content warnings are beneficial? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I understand the idea of shielding people from content that would be upsetting, but my own experience is, that I feel a little anxious as soon as I read Trigger Warning [...].

How is your experience with it? Are you happy with it, or do you thing there are better ways to address dark topics?

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[–] 14 points 11 months ago

This is the correct take.

Content warnings on everything seems silly until you think about what the alternative is. It's much better to have largely uncensored media that people can engage with intellectually, making their own decisions if they want to experience it or not.

The alternative is visible in the advertiser-friendly hellscape that mainstream social media has become, where people can't even say words like "kill" or "drug" without being buried by the algorithm.

For a healthy society to exist, people need to be able to interact with sensitive topics and challenging ideas.

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