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Microaggressions are using seemingly harmless words that in reality hurt or cause harm to someone, making them a victim.

Trigger warnings are supposed to be used by adults, mainly teachers, to stop a conversation before it gets too heated and hurts a person, or a group of people. 

Both are important for education because someone could use a microaggression without realizing that someone they are talking to could be offended by the word choices that they use. Trigger warnings are basically a way for a professor to tell the class not to use microaggressions, and to steer them away from topics that cause unpleasant emotions or reactions. 

I agree with the article. I think that if we censor what students are allowed to say or talk about, people who would be affected, outside of the classroom setting would be very hurt and would not have the coping skills to deal with people talking about these people; “But vindictive protectiveness teaches students to think in a very different way. It prepares them poorly for professional life, which often demands intellectual engagement with people and ideas one might find uncongenial or wrong” (Lukianoff , Haidt). 

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Generations have changed. Kids used to have more freedom, but as the world became more dangerous, parents became more protective to keep their kid safe, this caused schools to have to change to also become “safer.” With the changing generations comes different dangers, and now social media can also be classified as one, because it makes it easier for kids to harass other kids. 

“We find much to like about these trends; young people today are engaged with one another, with news stories, and with prosocial endeavors to a greater degree than when the dominant technology was the television. But social media has also fundamentally shifted the balance of power in relationships…”(Lukianoff, Haidt). 

As a generation we have learned to keep in touch and constantly update people about changes in our lives. We use this to, sometimes brag or hurt or make others feel sorry for us, mostly to drag out an emotion of someone to gain a reaction. Social media has definitely taken over our world, or in the process of it, and it is starting to change who has the power. People can use it to hurt others or publicly shame them, and sometimes we can use it to hurt ourselves. If we post something that we think is funny, and so do our friends, but if our professors or coaches see it and they think the opposite? Depending on the seriousness, there can great repercussions for these posts.

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The coddling of a person can be related to someone with a fixed mindset. If someone thinks we should keep using trigger warnings to prevent dramatic emotional responses, then you could say they have a fixed mindset. “In a 2014 survey by the American College Health Association, 54 percent of college students surveyed that they had “felt overwhelming anxiety” in the past 12 months”(Lukianoff , Haidt). If you take the fifty four percent of students that had anxiety and say that their anxiety was about what they would hear in class or would someone hurt them on social media, etc., then you should use a fixed mindset ideal and coddle children who would be hurt by microaggressions. 

If someone thinks that they should be allowed to talk about whatever they want in a classroom and that if someone is hurt by it, it will only help them succeed in life because they will have learned ways to overcome these conversations, then you could say this person could have a growth mindset – “the idea that abilities can be developed”(Dweck). If you apply this quote to this connection, then the ability would be coping skills and they would be developed to be used to deal with microaggressions  through someone’s life.