The publishers of “Gone with the Wind” will amend the latest printing of the classic American novel to include a trigger warning over racism and a new introduction that addresses “white supremacy.”
The London-based publishing house, Pan Macmillan, determined that a cautionary note was necessary to include with Margaret Mitchell’s detailed depiction of slavery in America during the Civil War.
A new analysis of 12 studies has found that trigger warnings, notes that warn readers or viewers that they could find content distressing, do not actually reduce negative reactions or increase avoidance of the material — and instead may lead to a “risk of emotional harm.”
University professors have applied trigger warnings to an 800-year-old religious text because the miracles described could be ‘graphic’.
History students at Manchester Metropolitan University will now be alerted to the potentially graphic content in a translation of the Miracles of the Hand of St James – a medieval text that describes the alleged miracles attributed to the mummified hand of St James.
Students set to study the historical text are first told: ‘Warning. Some of the miracles can be pretty graphic and may be off-putting to some.’
A popular ice cream destination in Newmarket, Ont. has asked an employee to remove “offensive” flags after complaints surfaced on social media.
Late on June 6, customers on Twitter started admonishing Kawartha Dairy after seeing a photograph allegedly of an employee’s vehicle decorated in flags that supported the so-called freedom convoy, an anti-mandate protest that shuttered streets in downtown Ottawa and across the province for weeks.
