A trigger warning is a warning that you may say something that someone might find objectionable. It gives them a chance to leave the room, or prepare themselves emotionally for the statement you may make. In theory trigger warnings are needed because of the sensitivities of our younger generations, which (insert trigger warning) actually is a very poor poor reflection on their lack of character, lack of self-respect, lack of motivation, and lack of American grit.

Oops, that may have been a micro-aggression, which I no longer need to define.

The way out of all of this is to say what we mean, be precise with our language, be kind and gracious, but stand for what we believe and say and not back down over properly used words.

EDITOR NOTE–Well said! One of my favorite inflammatory AND precise words is “SCHEME” as in “Bieter’s trolley scheme.” Defined as:
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/scheme
a plan, program, or policy officially adopted and followed, as by a government or business: The company’s pension scheme is very successful.

In this regard be are both stunning and brave!

It’s always nice when politically correct people prove a point to their own incorrectness. Such as they thought of “you don’t hear Hispanic-American”…
Well that depends on where you are listening. Here for example, our official government uses it:
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/hispanicamericanhealth.html

More fun reading on the Hispanic/Latino use
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/03/living/hispanic-latino-identity/

Conclusion? It is the people who feel they are being verbally assaulted that are the worse for perpetuating the problem. Get over it?

btw the use of any of the “__- word” is also offensive.
Maybe the thought is not vulgar if I use a substitute-hyphenated letter?

What you say is true, but only because the judicial and executive branches are being abused by our over abundance of lawyers.

Constitutionally, the legislative (the people) branch should be the bottom line. The executive can veto and the courts can rule yes or no, but congress should run the show.

However due to an out of control bio-film of lawyers slithering around in all branches of government we have activists courts going well beyond simple rulings, and an obscene excess power in the executive branch enforcing uncontested dictatorial policy.

We also have a massively unhappy public and government for the government paid for by the underrepresented and over-taxed people.

It’s only a matter of time before the fires of anarchy and revolution burn brightly. Many a fool points to the success of Europe without understanding all of Western Europe was a US cold-war puppet state until about 1995. It’s now disintegrating from the liberalism these fools celebrate and force upon the USA with the corrupt use of courts and executive.

Less than 1% of the population can demand the 99% spend millions towards accommodation of the 1%? Good thing minorities don’t have to meet that supermajority requirement to get their pet tax funded issues funded.

This sounds like the bike lane thing. A tiny minority can bite off more than their fair share of society’s resources.

I have no problems whatsoever with LGBT, but the reality is $millions will have to be spent to either 1) make all bathrooms unisex or 2) make a third bathroom in 10s of thousands of schools and other public buildings.

Meanwhile, the sidewalk on Jefferson by Whittier Elementary is still missing 4 years after completion of Whitewater Parkway. North Junior High still has no traffic light at Fort and 15th even though kids are forced to go to school in the dark in the winter. CWI’s campus-to-be is a junk yard for the Main Street Auction folks.

I’m glad we have infinite money so even my minority position on the issues can be catered to.

Hispanic and Latino are broad terms. Mexican, Cuban, Dominican, Puerto Rican are specific. You can identify as a Mexican-American, Cuban-American. You don’t hear Hispanic-American.

N-word was common. Ask your grandparents. It evolved to be derogatory…unless you are part of the black community, where it is a term of endearment.

Vernacular changes, we too change with the time.

Black replaced colored. My Dad forced me to change “colored” from conversation about school by interrupting me with “what color?” every time I used it. My friends were black, not colored, and identified as such.

Three of the ten dash-denoted comments from the editor relate to gender issues. Conservative Boise seems to be squeamish. Get over it?

Transgender people make up from .3% to .5% of our population. That’s 3 to 5 of every 1000 people. Is this really the biggest event of the day?

Why does gender fluidity create fear, and since when did variations on gender identity become a safety issue in our bathrooms? As far as I know, assaulting anyone of any sex in any bathroom has and always will be illegal.

Easterner: Your “h” word IS derogatory as written. I feel you know it, as does editor who allowed it.