&gt; People don&#x27;t argue about using the word rape on reddit, that place is a bastion for anti-trigger warning rhetoric much like tumblr is a haven for pro-trigger warning rhetoric.<p>Sure, if you ignore TwoXChromosomes, Shit___Says, etc.<p>Reddit is not one community, and talking about Reddit as if it is a bastion of anything only shows your ignorance on this topic. Certain subreddits certainly are bastions of full-on sexism and racism, but others are the diametric opposite.<p>&gt; Nobody says you can&#x27;t talk about rape, just give people a heads up before you do.<p>This is simply incorrect. <i>Most</i> people don&#x27;t say you can&#x27;t talk about rape, but there are definitely people on Reddit who say you can&#x27;t talk about rape.<p>&gt;  If you live next door to a veteran that you know suffers from PTSD, you ask him&#x2F;her about using fireworks before you do it, right? Trigger warnings are the same thing except on the internet and instead of not talking about it the person just knows to stop reading.<p><i>If</i> I know my neighbor is a veteran with PTSD, I probably just wouldn&#x27;t shoot off fireworks. I&#x27;m not an asshole.<p>But Reddit isn&#x27;t my neighbor, it&#x27;s a cross-section of the entire internet, and there&#x27;s no way I can possibly avoid triggering all of the myriad of possible mental illnesses people could be experiencing on the internet. Completely sanitized content is not something you can reasonably expect in a diverse community.<p>People who don&#x27;t want to see content about rape can definitely go to Subreddits that enforce these kinds of rules. None of the subreddits I subscribe to allow hate speech, and talk about rape would be deleted because it&#x27;s off topic. I&#x27;ve managed to avoid &quot;triggering&quot; content completely unintentionally, just by subscribing to subreddits that are on topics that interest me. People who are at risk for being triggered by talk about rape are just as capable of that as I am. It&#x27;s much more reasonable to simply subscribe to reddits with content you care about than to try to force every community on Reddit to participate in the treatment of your mental illness.<p>&gt; Also, this isn&#x27;t policing thoughts. Think whatever you want. Say what you want. Understand the consequences. I will think what I want and respond how I want and understand the consequences.<p>It isn&#x27;t about policing thought <i>for you</i>. You sound like a reasonable person. Unfortunately not everyone involved in this discussion is so reasonable.