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Yeah, this is the sort of stuff that comes to mind when I think "triggering", either people that have seen some shit or lived some shit and not just heard something they didn't like. Another common example I know if is if some highly descriptive scene of a sexual assault comes on TV and it setting off somebody who's previously been assaulted or was close to somebody has been assaulted and has developed a PTSD from those events.

So I can totally get why trigger warnings for some topics are a good idea, but for some reason a lot of dipshits have whittled the concept of triggering down to some blue haired female being told the gender pay gap isn't real or some other made up scenario where the libs get owned. That's the sort of stuff I think is referred to as never being encountered in the real world; the only thing I can think of that's remotely close is when grandparents spend the entire year posting right wing shit on facebook and then getting offended when the grandkids don't want to see them at Christmas.