New Rule: Trigger Warning! | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

and finally new row let's put a trigger warning on trigger warnings Jenny from Flinders University analyzed a dozen other studies on trigger warnings and they all came to the same conclusion they don't work not only don't they protect your feelings but if you actually have been traumatized by something they're warning you about a trigger warning makes it worse it's like if seat belts were made out of broken glass it winds up just being a reenactment of the old joke how do you keep a in suspense I'll tell you later now for those of you who have been living on an offshore oil rig for the last 10 years and don't know what I'm talking about a trigger warning is a kind of close your eyes Here Comes an ouchy that like so many bad ideas in recent years got started on college campuses students started demanding them so they could get ready in case something in a book or a piece of art or a history lesson reminded them that life included bad things and not just good and sometimes people were mean you can't have that just sprung on you several universities in recent years have even compiled lists of words we should be warned about to get rid of altogether including balls to the wall no can do you guys Master white paper man in the middle off the reservation peanut gallery insane and virgin virgin we can't say virgin as opposed to what person experiencing not getting laid thank you you would think that one would take the care the cake for the oversensitivity but these students at Brandeis said hold my baby bottle they made a list of Expressions they don't want to hear because they remind them of violence terms like killing it beating a dead horse and yes even trigger warning I guess they don't teach irony in college anymore at some point the trigger warning escaped from canvas and got out into the real world and now they're everywhere warnings at the top of Reddit threads and Facebook and Twitter and Instagram posts warnings before your favorite serial killer series before news articles Disney put an advisory on the movie Dumbo warning viewers about stereotypes because otherwise you might think it was a documentary about flying elephants Turner Classic Movies still wants to show you classic movies but before we do first there are a few parts we'd like you to feel really bad about now enjoy the show theaters do it now too the storied Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis tipped off their crowd that a play included simulated gunshot strobe lights and Haze Haze Casey has been groped by a thick fog a sitter in Brooklyn alerted the audience to expect moments of darkness and violence and this was for Oklahoma my senior class in high school put on Oklahoma and I thought it was corny and provincial then I cannot I cannot imagine the fragility of someone who needs to be warned about it how do these people get to the airport let alone through childhood London's Globe Theater felt the need to tell the audience that its production of Romeo and Juliet include suicide okay but Romeo and Juliet has been in your Netflix queue since 1596. [Applause] you've had 400 years to prepare and also it does kind of give away the ending I don't I don't understand how a society that's so in love with spoiler alerts can also be into trigger warnings tell me what's going to happen but don't tell me and again all the research shows that these trigger warnings don't even work what they do is reinforce the idea that trauma is Central to your identity and that you should let it Define you instead of dealing with it dispatching it and moving beyond it people wonder why the younger Generations have so much anxiety it's this stuff lots of stuff makes us uncomfortable you know what makes me uncomfortable this people people who start every conversation with as a person who as a survivor of I'm triggered every time I see a trigger warning because I'm reminded of how weak my country has become it's like wearing a mask on your mind we keep finding out about new health problems kids have from being locked inside for three years exposed only to filtered air during the covet era turns out that's not healthy but you know there is an alternative way of dealing with anxiety and let me put it in comic book terms so the kids can relate Bruce Wayne you're familiar was afraid of bats so what did he do he became Batman that's the way to go because honestly we cannot go any further in the other direction we've been going in we've already passed the point of parity a student group in Australia recently called for trigger warnings on eye contact even the Taliban are okay with eyes [Applause] eye contact will you traumatized as a child after losing a staring contest what's next trigger warnings for conversations having everyone walk around with name tags that say hi I'm Dave please don't bring up doorknobs ah [Applause] I'm Josh I have a drug problem and a hairy back so don't mention cocaine bear

Channel: Real Time with Bill Maher

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Length: 6min 57sec (417 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 03 2023

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[u/actinross]

I miss life when it was... just life. (trigger warning, still hurts)

[u/Ok-Historian-6969]

Hey!! Where was the trigger warning that we’d be subjected to Bill Maher?!

[u/BiteMe69Times]

Hi, I'm Dave

Please don't bring up doorknobs