Are you familiar with the concept of “safe spaces?” On the surface they certainly don’t sound harmful, but they actually are a threat to the very ideals our country holds so dear.
Safe spaces are areas set aside where supposedly grown adult college students retreat to so they aren’t exposed to any alternate point of view or type of person they disagree with.
Rather than realize the world is filled with all sorts of people and that dealing with that is part of life, they demand “someone” (usually the university) protect them from alternate points of view.
When I was in college this world was only beginning to take shape. There were hints of this new order to come but it hadn’t gained full momentum. Freedom of thought, freedom of expression, and open spirited debate were fully encouraged. Such activities lead to thinking, discussion, and the consideration of alternate viewpoints.
It was kind of the point of college, in fact, to teach students to be future leaders, to break them away from the drone group think model they had been exposed to in high school intended to prepare the to be good little cogs in the machine.
Safe spaces are unsafe to the ideals of freedom. It’s akin to the conditions that eventually lead to incidents like The Salem Witch Trials.
Safe space seekers, I challenge you to challenge yourselves. Go out in the world and expose yourself to people who are radically different from you. Debate and discuss. Endure alternate viewpoints. You can do this snowflake, I know you can.
Our nation needs leaders who don’t require safe spaces and censorship. So stop being a baby, put on the big kid pants, and get out there. Chances are you’ll find a lot of what you are afraid of are simply boogey- people of your own imagination.
Let those who have ears hear.
Notes From a Red Pill Girl 
“When you sit in a room with a small group of people making decisions, what do you get? You get groupthink. Everybody has the same worldview, and any view from outside of the group is seen as a threat.” – How Fear Drives American Politics, David Rothkopf
Much diversity modern universities do have.
Have black, brown, yellow, olive, red and most colors under the rainbow they do.
But all think the same these people would.
Everybody has the same worldview, and any view from outside of the group is seen as a threat.
Perhaps weak their arguments are.
Maybe like a wolf blowing down a straw house it would be
It is intellectual immaturity that creates the need for this. However, until Mizzou, it wasn’t weaponized, safe spaces were simply refuges. At Mizzou, they create places that were once public and made them exclusive.
After seeing this, one has to ask, does higher education add value?
We have a government sanctioned safe space right now, and it is present in all 50 states plus the territory of Cuba. It’s called “solitary confinement”.
(off-topic) I have a comment at the “women in combat” post that needs to get out of the spam jail, on account of a couple of links.
Related: here’s something I bookmarked the other day–groups in a simulated business environment were more productive when instructed to dissent and critique each others’ ideas than the classical brainstorming approach of nonjudgmentalism:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/please-more-brainstorm-sessions-how-innovation-really-matthew-syed?trk=hp-feed-article-title-hpm
groups in a simulated business environment were more productive when instructed to dissent and critique each others’ ideas
Requires people to operate in good faith it does.
SJW types usually do this not