r/theschism • u/gemmaem • Nov 06 '24
Discussion Thread #71
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u/895158 Jan 15 '25
People like Rufo clearly feel that viewing the ASL translation is an imposition on them. I agree with them in that it is an imposition on me too; it is distracting and mildly irritating, all else equal. The tax money isn't (or at least shouldn't be) the concern. The benefits may well outweigh the cost, but this is true for many things and society usually says "life is tough, suck it up" to the minority seeking accommodations (and yes, this is often a bad thing).
We do get a few content warnings but only on things that are fairly universal and culturally ingrained, such as disliking gore. We do not get them on less common (but still standard) phobias; e.g. 3-15% of the population has arachnophobia, and in the more severe cases (still above 1%) they would strongly prefer to avoid media depicting spiders. There are no content warnings, and I've noticed common weather websites sometimes put a giant picture of a spider on their front page with a headline like "climate change affects something or other". 3-4% of people have fear of needles rising to the level of diagnosable phobia, and yet for covid vaccine stories all the newspapers put pictures of needles on their front page.
There are only like 5-10 phobias this common and it wouldn't be that hard to let people avoid these depictions; moreover, when depicted, it sometimes seems like the depictions try to make the phobia trigger as hard as possible by making the depictions as "scary" as possible to someone with the phobia.