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Why doesn’t the music industry and Hollywood come with these trigger warnings?
What harmful or difficult content may be found in the National Archives Catalog and our web pages?
Some items may:
reflect racist, sexist, ableist, misogynistic/misogynoir, and xenophobic opinions and attitudes;
be discriminatory towards or exclude diverse views on sexuality, gender, religion, and more;
include graphic content of historical events such as violent death, medical procedures, crime, wars/terrorist acts, natural disasters and more;
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They really are assaulting the Constitution.
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I was in Washington D.C. last week. I visited the National Archive Museum and viewed the original documents in the Rotunda. There was also no "trigger warning" language anywhere near the original documents.
The National Archive's website where they feature digital images of the founding documents: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs
I do not see any "trigger warning" language there.You see the "trigger warning" language when you view any document through the "catalog" link (that brings you to this statement). That's just boiler plate programmatically applied to everything accessed through the "catalog" view. For sure there are old writings that violate modern sensitivities among the millions of records in the National Archive's entire "catalog." It will take a long time if humans were to manually review and tag every record in the "catalog" for whether it needs a trigger warning. But given the attention this sort of tweets get retweeted, maybe the staff will prioritize manually tagging some of the most frequently viewed documents.
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The Daily Mail should carry a trigger warning. "Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here" springs to mind.
