INSERT SOME SORT OF ARGUMENT HERE. Friedersdorf asks “How do we study slavery or the Rwandan genocide, or the communist purges, or the Holocaust, or the Crucifixion, or the prose of Toni Morrison or James Joyce, or the speeches of MLK… without risking trauma?” He says learning these things could traumatize us. College students are between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two. How many of us have experienced one of these events? Not a single one. Could learning these things leave unpleasant images in our minds for a short period of time? Of course. But we will never be traumatized by learning of such horrible events. The subcommittee states that "a trigger warning could cause a student not to read an assignment or not get a response from students that he or she would not otherwise have, focusing them on one aspect of the text and thus excluding other reactions. » They say that triggers are an excuse for students not to read a book, and that if they did, they would only focus on the warning, not the actual subject of the book. On the other hand, Friedersdorf quotes a UC Santa Barbara professor: “any student can request some sort of accommodation.” A student can go to their teacher after class, tell them about their situation and get a different assignment. A physical education teacher cannot force a person with a broken leg to run