[drglitch]

Is there a more appropriate word to describe this? Honest question as a non-native English speaker.

Seems like this is a commonly used term/usage: https://www.google.com/amp/s/dictionary.cambridge.org/us/amp...

[adamjb]

"Offended" would be my suggestion. "Triggered" is only really used in this sense as part of bad faith culture war discourse, mocking the idea of trigger warnings.

[bkirkby]

I've heard advocates of trigger warnings share their lived experience by talking about what "triggered" them, using that word specifically.

[dogorman]

The word is used in the context of PTSD. e.g. "hearing fireworks triggered flashbacks from the war"

More generally, a "trigger warning" is a "content advisory warning" by another name.

[wffurr]

There's a big difference between describing one's own experience and labeling others.

[Shorel]

I don't think they mock the idea of triggers.

They leverage and weaponize the concept, which is arguably worse.