Should universities provide “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” for students?

Safe spaces should exist but kids should be challenged and have to face hard things. There are too many disingenuous trigger warnings

Kind of. It's important that students feel safe in places but it would be impossible to make everything to every students' liking.

Safe spaces should be provided to everyone, but the need for trigger warnings is usually too broad of a spectrum for the government to regulate.

Yes, provide safe spaces but in regard to trigger warnings they are only necessary for serious topics that students could have genuinely experienced trauma in.

Universities should provide mental health resources, and course content that may be challenging or upsetting should be disclosed by the professor in the syllabus. However, using terms like "trigger warnings" or "safe spaces" unnecessarily stigmatizes clear communication and is condescending toward students who seek mental healthcare in the university environment.

Yes to safe spaces, but recent research on trigger warnings shows that they actually cause anticipatory anxiety.

This should be done contexually and not across the board as its impossoble to predict all possible triggers

Yes, but not to the detriment of free speech and public debate. The entire campus should be a “safe space” where ideas can be challenged without harassing an individual because of their opinions or any other reason.

Provide but don't deem necessary

Yes. Mental health needs to be better supported. It's sickening how many people believe and act on their belief that suicide is the only escape from the anguish they are burdened with everyday.

Yes, but do not glorify it, make it one of the normal things around that campus

Yes, for things like sexual assault, kidnapping, torture, etc.

students should be able to have a place where they can feel safe for their mental and physical wellbeing. Trigger warnings should only constitute actually triggering subjects rather than everyday things.

Depends on the college and subject

Yes, it is important to provide both, despite the misrepresentation of what these terms mean.

I don’t even know what this question is asking… The onus should be on individuals to recognize if they are saying something that could offend and ensure there is mutual respect.

Who cares this isn't important

College is meant to challenge students, but trigger warnings may be helpful for those that need them.

Yes, it can only be beneficial, there are likely to be few negative consequences.

If a university feels like that is an accommodation that is needed they can

This is a flawed premise

Yes, for safe spaces, but no for trigger.

it’s dependent on what they want a warning for

Yes, and schools should do more to recognize mental health issues

This should be a policy decision left to the university’s administration.

Yes, if that is what they want to do

i feel that their rooms can be their safe spaces but certain topics that are known fo triggering need a tw. not everything about college should be a trigger warning though

"Trigger warnings" are for people with PTSD, and usually they aren't triggered by things like self harm or death and things like that. They should add "content warning" instead. And they should add "safe spaces"

for certain things.

Yes. Trigger warnings are a universal health accommodation, and affinity spaces and safe spaces can be fostered in schools while still challenging students and their beliefs

Yes, if the students at the university request it

If a trigger warning is needed, or if the student NEEDS a safe space

Not required, but if students/staff want it

Universities should listen to their student bodies and install safe spaces + add trigger warnings where and when students indicate these systems will best serve the community.

no, people aren’t responsible for your triggers.

Yes, have both trigger warnings and safe spaces

Mixed opinion. Depending on the severity of the topic and if it would generally cause trauma to someone, there should be a trigger warning. Everyday tasks such as eating shouldn’t be marked, but things such as rape, abuse, or gore should be.

We need both but in limited amounts

Yes, but sparingly, on the most sensitive topics.

Just don’t be horrible to people. But yes. Mental health and other issues are more prominent now. No one should ever feel unsafe.

If they want. Not require it.

Professors already include disclaimers of problematic material and safe spaces are best created by the students

Yes, college students should be exposed to hard ideas, but some topics can be very hard on people with certain traumas and they should know if those topics will be discussed and to have spaces to get away from those topics.

They can have common trigger warnings like flashing lights and blood but at the end of the day people are responsible for their own triggers.

College is meant to challenge and educate- "safe spaces and trigger warnings" are a sign of respect to the student. However, this should not interfere with classes or enable poor students to cease improving.

Just do it if you wanna, you don’t have to.

Trigger warnings should only be provided with excessively graphic content

This comment is a red herring, They can if they so choose, but whether they should or not is irrelevant.

This is not the business of the government.

Yes, because mental health on campuses is already strained and underfunded. Allowing people warning for sensitive material is empathetic.

Teachers should provide content warnings for presentations much like we already see in film and music, and we should not allow anyone to feel like they're in danger by simply being on campus

Yes, but the government shouldn't mandate it