Its got very good handling but its on the slow side <| sep |> For me the biggest disappointment was the season pass , at least until the claptastic voyage , that was pretty good <| sep |> OP meant their base pay is less than minimum wage in most of the U . S . Not their total income . That is very true . <| sep |> I ' m not sure how that follows . Most stories don ' t include elements of racism or colonialism . And it ' s not like someone is suggested trigger warnings for racism and colonialism in general terms , like if a character asks to touch a black character ' s hair then I don ' t think anyone is saying it needs a trigger warning . The racism and colonialism suggestions were in the specific context of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe , where it ' s specifically the kind of racism and colonialism that involves religious persecution , suicide , violence , etc . But to be clear , it ' s not anyone is suggesting that we slap trigger warning stickers on the front of books . That ' s fairly reasonable to my mind , but the Guardian article does suggest that the trigger warnings were requested to be placed on the books themselves . Like I said , the vast majority of ones I have seen are reasonable like what you mention material which would actually be upsetting to even people not likely to be triggered , but I ' ve certainly seen more frivolous ones online like TW weight loss . I ' m open to the idea that I ' m maybe just unempathetic because I don ' t really experience these triggers as strongly as others , but I lean more towards thinking that these are an unnecessary overapplication of the concept to anything likely to make someone feel uncomfortable . To me this seems massively different from a sticker on the front of an album because it contains a swear word . I didn ' t agree with the PARENTAL ADVISORY stickers but the argument that Tipper Gore et al were making wasn ' t just confined to swear words they were worried that music was being marketed to children which contained material which is not appropriate for their age group . This included bad language , but also aspects of sexuality , violence , misogyny , etc . which was inappropriate for young people . There was , obviously , absurd moralising and accusations that rock music was encouraging devilworship , but there is a salvageable reasonable point within the whole furore that is comparable to the debate over trigger warnings , to my mind . If , as you say , you ' d rather be wrong trying to make the world a better place , isn ' t that what the parents in the 1980 s were doing if we ' re being charitable ? I can ' t remember where I heard it but I heard a good response to this once where the guy said something to the effect of there will always be students who try to abuse policies for their own gain , but professors aren ' t stupid . If a student is lying to get out of doing work , then it will be obvious . That ' s not an argument against trigger warnings , it ' d be an argument against having any policies at all in universities . I certainly wasn ' t arguing against trigger warnings per se and ultimately my attitude to the vast majority I see online that I think personally are a bit overthetop is eh , who cares since people are free to put whatever they please on their blogs or Facebook statuses . I do have a personal opinion that some of them are unnecessary , though , and have a sense that if the logic is followed consistently then there is a concern about where one could seriously draw the line on this sort of thing if we take cultural sensitivity into account . At the moment , for instance , trigger warnings are requested for legitimate traumainducing things like we ' ve discussed , but also things likely to trigger eating disorders , anxiety , but does the logic only extend to mental health , or could a devout religious student request a trigger warning for material he or she feels is likely to corrupt morals or some such thing ? I ' m not aware of any such requests at the moment , but I could well envisage if trigger warnings became systematic , those sorts of requests could happen . My point is more that I don ' t see this happening . Maybe it might , but every example I ' ve ever seen of someone suggesting concept creep has shown biased journalism , where the original source contradicts their claim . For sure most of the time I see these Trigger Warnings Are Destroying Our Universities articles they ' re poorlyresearched and , where fuller information on the supposed destructive trigger warnings is available , they ' re far more reasonable that the article suggests . This is definitely true but the way I view it is that I ' d rather someone be wrong while trying to make the world a better place , than someone be wrong by attacking ideas that make the world a better place . These people should still be corrected but at the end of the day people will say silly things and be wrong about complex topics all the time . It just doesn ' t help to make it seem like a systematic problem . I agree with this wholly and there is a slippery slope argument whereby people act like these hypothetical coddled leftists requesting absurd trigger warnings for mundanities are used to invalidate the concept entirely . To say that something isn ' t systematic doesn ' t mean it ' s beyond reproach , though , and whilst I acknowledge the general good intent behind such things , it ' s also worth calling something out if we think it ' s ridiculous , just do so in a less hyperbolic or SJWs kill universities nonsensical way . music that is traditionally considered black is stereotyped as not real music , primitive , simple , etc , but then suddenly a white person does it and he ' s brilliant , award winning , palatable and acceptable , etc . That ' s an issue more to do with general boilerplate racism rather than appropriation , no ? talked about this problem with his music . The entire point of White America is that the only reason he ' s successful is because he ' s white , and it ' s bullshit how more talented black rappers are ignored and dismissed because they aren ' t white . Macklemore has similar songs White Privilege , and White Privilege II . The charge of appropriation , to my mind , is one leveled against an artist whereas what you are talking about here is one which is leveled against an audience who are racist and say things like I don ' t like rap except Eminem and Macklemore . What I ' m getting at is that the audience can ' t be guilty of appropriation , and I don ' t feel that Eminem himself is he ' s an immensely talented artist who grew up in the culture and is definitely a part of rap history Macklemore I don ' t really know or care much about since his music bores me . Similarly , I think to call Japanese , French , Taiwanese , Korean , Malaysian , etc . rappers guilty of appropriation just because the music originated amongst African Americans in the USA is absurd it ' s a global phenomenon now I would level the charge of appropriation against artists who commodify or reduce the art form to a way which is somehow disrespectful , but not against every rapper who isn ' t African American . But often what is viewed as an overreaction is a misunderstanding of what the argument is , and by framing it as a overreaction it shuts down any possibility of understanding the original argument . I ' m not framing it as an overreaction at all the things you outline here are very real and very serious and the discussion about white musicians taking typically black music and marketing it in order to be palatable to racist white people is different from claiming every white person who does black music is guilty of appropriation . I think the charge of appropriation could very well stick to someone like Elvis , or even The Beatles , but sticks less well to someone like Eminem , and to say otherwise ends up in a fairly nebulous application of the concept whereby anyone that isn ' t Chuck Berry is guilty of appropriating black rock music I personally don ' t think the charge sticks very well to someone like Frank Zappa , for instance . Eh , it ' s a stretch of the term but it didn ' t seem like a serious use to me . It ' s a stretch of the term but the person claiming it was definitely being serious . I ' m not too sure what you mean by this or how the link relates . It was just a fairly extreme example of how identity politics are manipulated or commodified by large businesses the Ghostbusters controversy was manipulated by Sony who realised that selling the film as a feminist cause celebre would generate a bunch of free publicity for what was just a mediocre franchise reboot . Comments critical of the film per se were deleted from the YouTube trailer and misogynistic insults were kept in order to make it appear the only critics of the film were sexist trolls that led to a bunch of coverage on blogs imploring people to go see the film to stick it to misogyny as if buying a ticket to a shitty franchise reboot was a revolutionary act . Anyway the Ghostbusters thing is mostly irrelevant it ' s just the most extreme example I can think of as to how this sort of thing can be picked up for less than honest reasons .