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In reply to the discussion: How is it NOT a display of white privilege to mock the idea of "Safe Spaces"? [View all]Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)No one is free to commit acts of violence, so claiming to want a safe space free from fear of violence is just plain overwrought silliness.
As for free from verbal abuse and slues: Who gets to decide? I've been accused of racism in this thread just for noting that permitting a group to unilaterally impose segregation is a form of privilege.
So now questioning the wisdom of a policy is racism which is tantamount to saying Group X is above criticism thus anything a person from that group demands must be granted without critique or hesitation.
Again: Privileges not extended to anyone else.
Finally, we must ask what enforcement would look like. What if a person not a part of the group enters the safe space and declines to leave? Will they be arrested? Forcibly removed? Including from public spaces on publically funded universities?
And then comes the matter of practicality. I have serious reservations that segregation solves anything, even if self-segregating. The situation of POC will not be improved by safe spaces any more than they will improve with separate water fountains and lunch counters.
There is no need to mock the idea of safe spaces when there is so much to sincerely criticize.