What is a Safe Space?

[Deluge]

A safe space is a place (as on a college campus) where crybaby leftists can be free of bias, conflict, criticism, or potentially threatening actions, ideas, or conversations.

So how in the hell can these wet diapered maniacs survive in the real world, and is it fair for them to force normal people to adapt to their psychotic temper tantrums?   

What are your thoughts? 

[Goddess]

Prof. Gad Saad has a great book out right now about this:

I'm actually on the chapter about college/university campuses right now.

[Nationalist]

My thoughts are that when a kid is raised with no discipline and constantly sheltered from hardship, the kid grows up and needs "safe spaces" in order to cope. Unfortunately...all that does is further enforce the idea that the world revolves around these Tweenkie sad-sacks.

Spare the rod...spoil the child.

[Michael Hardner]

Indeed a Safe Space means safe from 'criticism' ...

 

 

a place or environment in which a person or category of people can feel confident that they will not be exposed to discrimination, criticism, harassment, or any other emotional or physical harm."school must be a safe space for LGBT students"

 

I had a member on here complain that I was criticizing his posts based on past postings once, showing that he wasn't living up to his own principles and he got very upset.  

Is MLW ... sorry Re:Politics ... a 'safe space' ?

I think if people want to set up such things, that's up to them.  I sure don't need to go to one.  And I don't think they have a place in the public sphere, where one's opinions need to be picked apart in order to synthesize the best hybrid solution fro ma discussion.

But you sure should not make an entire political jurisdiction a safe space, such as Canada making insults illegal, or Florida in the case of governments forbidding anti-racism ideas.

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And the biggest problem with the public sphere isn't the provision of some playpens for on-campus delicates.  It's an entire nation or even a culture that refuses to use facts and argues emotionally, leading with the ego.

 

 

[Goddess]

Here's a sample from the above book on the posted topic:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[User]

47 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

I sure don't need to go to one. 

LOL OMG, are you for real?

You routinely threaten to ignore, place on ignore, encourage others to ignore, and then complain to the admin about how you still see that people you have on ignore are showing up...

 

[CdnFox]

Well I do believe that we all need personal space that we can feel relaxed in. I think the idea of a actual safe space as we've come to use the term today is more along the lines of an attempt to justify negative emotions and give them credibility. It's a way of saying whatever negative thing you perceive as being a threat is terrible and evil and you shouldn't have to deal with it so we've created a space where you don't and where nobody's going to say you're wrong to feel badly.

The problem is it's absolutely a fundamental part of our development to deal with adversity and challenge and difficult concepts and learn how to positively and proactively cope. This leads to emotional strength and problem solving skills that are critical in later life.

I think they are a hotbed of emotional enslavement and dependency and I think that the next generation of children who don't believe in say spaces will eat those who do alive

50 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

Is MLW ... sorry Re:Politics ... a 'safe space' ?
 

You've met me, right?

[User]

Safe spaces are absurdly dumb. College is supposed to be preparing people for the world, to challenge them. 

That aside, what is outright wrong and should be stopped with Federal law enforcement action are the outright racist segregation spaces some of these colleges promote. Black only dorms, Black only meeting spaces, Black only study spaces. 

Those should be shut down. 

Safe spaces should be mocked. 

[Rebound]

8 minutes ago, User said:

Safe spaces are absurdly dumb. College is supposed to be preparing people for the world, to challenge them. 

That aside, what is outright wrong and should be stopped with Federal law enforcement action are the outright racist segregation spaces some of these colleges promote. Black only dorms, Black only meeting spaces, Black only study spaces. 

Those should be shut down. 

Safe spaces should be mocked. 

Wouldn’t you agree that discrimination and harassment are illegal and that Americans should be “safe” from discrimination and harassment everywhere?

Besides that, I could care less what ultra-liberal whining art and Arab studies students have to say.  They’re a bunch of fools who will wind up on welfare because they’re chasing degrees which don’t lead to jobs. 

[Michael Hardner]

21 minutes ago, User said:

1. LOL OMG, are you for real?

2. You routinely threaten to ignore, place on ignore, encourage others to ignore, and then complain to the admin about how you still see that people you have on ignore are showing up...

 

1. Yeppers.
2. I don't need to be protected.  I can ignore people who behave like children.  The Safe Space people should do the same.  Look the other way.  If people are shitting on the floor, tell the manager to deal with it.

I occasionally even reply to people on Ignore...

[Rebound]

2 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

1. Yeppers.
2. I don't need to be protected.  I can ignore people who behave like children.  The Safe Space people should do the same.  Look the other way.  If people are shitting on the floor, tell the manager to deal with it.

I occasionally even reply to people on Ignore...

If somebody burns a cross on your law, would you just look the other way?

[User]

8 minutes ago, Rebound said:

Wouldn’t you agree that discrimination and harassment are illegal and that Americans should be “safe” from discrimination and harassment everywhere?

Well, as long as we are talking about the actual legal definitions of what constitutes discrimination and harassment. 

[Michael Hardner]

11 minutes ago, Rebound said:

If somebody burns a cross on your law, would you just look the other way?

I think I would notice them putting the cross up... would probably tell them to get lost.

If someone called me a name on the street, I would invoke my special built-in 'ignore' feature.

[User]

29 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

2. I don't need to be protected.  

This you?

LOL

"Is there a way I can be notified, or see the latest posts only from people that I have not ignored? 

It's just that when I go to scan the latest posts, such posters are buried in the load of ignored posts. 

It's just getting harder and harder to use the site with all of this.. basically spam"

 

31 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

I can ignore people who behave like children.  The Safe Space people should do the same.  Look the other way.  If people are shitting on the floor, tell the manager to deal with it.

Yes, you can ignore people... by ignoring them. Using the built in features of this website to hide from posters though? LOL. That is your safe space. 

 

[Michael Hardner]

44 minutes ago, User said:

1. This you?
 

2. Yes, you can ignore people... by ignoring them.
 

 

1. Yeah, I don't like wasting time sorting through your garbage posts like a sad raccoon in a dumpster.  Nothing to do with me being afraid of your pant-sh1tting opinions...
2. Sorry you're offended by the Ignore feature.  Use it or don't.

Back to ignore now... 3 minutes wasted on reading/replying to you... thank me if you like but I won't see it...

[User]

4 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

Back to ignore now... 3 minutes wasted on reading/replying to you... thank me if you like but I won't see it...

LOL, of course you are not honest enough to see the hypocritical irony you put on display here. 

Back to your safe space! 

Edited August 22, 2024 by User

[CdnFox]

1 hour ago, Rebound said:

Wouldn’t you agree that discrimination and harassment are illegal and that Americans should be “safe” from discrimination and harassment everywhere?

 

Define discrimination and harassment. Is being yelled at and attacked personally for saying that all lives matter discrimination and harassment? Are you applying this equally to antifa and Nazis? Discrimination rise to the level of criminal activity? If some black person tells me that white men can't jump can I have him arrested? If somebody harasses me on the street for pocket change because they're homeless can we lock them up?

I don't think I would agree with your statement. I think that in some cases discrimination and harassment can rise to the level of a criminal offense. But it sounds like what you're saying is that people should have a right not to ever be offended. And I do not believe for a moment that that is the case

[herbie]

Oh FFS the usual babble and whining that giving the slightest consideration to others is woke discriminating against white christian fascist bullies and arseholes.

Shows just who the wimps really are.

Edited August 22, 2024 by herbie

[CdnFox]

2 hours ago, herbie said:

Oh FFS the usual babble and whining that giving the slightest consideration to others is woke discriminating against white christian fascist bullies and arseholes.

Shows just who the wimps really are.

Awwwww - you sound butthurt.  Did you need a safe space little guy?  We'll get you one with hot chocolate and a puppy!

[herbie]

Too much fun taunting the retreads that thinks the political right can't be wrong.
And responds to criticism about whining with even more...

[CdnFox]

3 hours ago, herbie said:

Too much fun taunting the retreads that thinks the political right can't be wrong.
And responds to criticism about whining with even more...

We don't think that at all. In fact you frequently see comments about where the right is wrong. What your real problem is is we don't think the left can be right    You're certainly not doing anything to dispute or disabuse us of that thought