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In reply to the discussion: We have Safe Spaces here on DU. They are called Groups. [View all]Prism
(5,815 posts)Safe spaces are supposed to be places where people can speak without fear of retribution or censorship. On colleges specifically, they were intended as First Amendment zones where a student couldn't get in trouble from professors for their ideas and speech.
They were noble concepts meant to encourage academic inquiry and freedom.
Now, they are zones of ideological fanaticism, sheltering participants from disagreement or challenge with apparent attempts at enforcing that uniformity through verbal and sometimes physical aggression.
Notice yesterday's video of a safe space where people could speak their truth. When an asian woman immigrant said something some of these SJWs didn't like, they went after her.
Safe space, huh? More like "Safe space for me, not for thee. You have to agree with me in this place."
This is so far afield from our concepts of what makes for a healthy, intellectual society, it's appalling.
This isn't liberalism. It's, quite frankly, getting fascistic. But I'm somewhat enjoying watching all these would-be Robespierres eat each other. Who next will get the guillotine? The university administrations that unleashed these Frankensteins are now getting a taste as it turns on them.
This is vastly entertaining. I guess some professors are too busy writing papers about Twilight and 50 Shades of Gray instead of cracking a history book.