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I don't think they should be turned into places where certain words are banned. After all, we are talking about adults here, college. We are not talking about middle school children.
So why would we treat adults like children? Why would an adult want to be treated like a child by another adult?
This is something that should be done for 14 yr. olds, not people on college campuses. If you are so super sensitive as an adult you can't handle hearing certain words..as if there is some arcane magic behind them, I don't know what to tell you.
Wow, I am honestly surprised that everyone who has posted on this topic agrees with me. My surprise mainly stems from the fact that when I expressed my distaste for safe spaces with my friends, they acted like I was some evil tool.
But yes, my problem with safe spaces is that they promote escapism as the solution to problems, which is not the right solution. This escapist response also promotes hypersensitivity, which is already too annoying a problem in the modern age, as is a refusal to listen to opposing ideas, which is also a problem in the modern age that would be promoted by promoting escapism. And if escapism becomes a first response, people will be unwilling to listen to any legitimate criticism and find no need to grow as a person.
And promoting this on college campuses as a whole restricts the free flow of ideas and information that is supposed to be exchanged in an educational environment and treats adults as children.
Safe spaces are anti-evolutionary essentially.
My problem with safe spaces is..this shit is getting old. It's getting old and sad and tiresome. People are far too sensitive these days. We have to coddle them like children.
It's getting ridiculous. Are we dealing with kids in kindergarden or grown ass adults? You might as well just wear ear plugs wherever you go..you never know when you might hear a word that you can't handle.
Originally posted by Lucius
Safe spaces are places where self-entitled SJWs, can cry themselves to sleep after whining about someone engaging in cultural appropriation because they wore a samurai outfit for Halloween.No, these spineless twits don't need safe spaces.
is sjw social justice warrior? i had to look it up
Originally posted by Raisen
Beneficial for what? To further a person's victim mentality. Sure racism exists. Sure sexism exists. It always will. However a lot of it is bs and every one knows it. People need to stand up for themselves.
I can see some theoretical merit to these so-called 'safe spaces', but in practice they seem to become no free speech spaces, exclusionary spaces, and in general echo chambers where schmucks desperately attempt to shield themselves from reality.
Originally posted by Lucius
Safe spaces are places where self-entitled SJWs, can cry themselves to sleep after whining about someone engaging in cultural appropriation because they wore a samurai outfit for Halloween.No, these spineless twits don't need safe spaces.
You shouldn't need to create safe spaces. People should just learn not to be assholes and set aside the little time it takes to understand what makes other people uncomfortable and do their best to avoid those things.
Same thing with political correctness. 95% of the time, being PC just boils down to being polite and considering other people's sensibilities before shooting your mouth off. People who take a stand against "PC culture" are often just too lazy to make any effort to not offend people.
I think people also need to learn to not be so sensitive, that kind of goes hand in hand with not being an a-hole. Since overly sensitive people fall under the "a-hole" category as well.
For instance I was indeed raised to be polite to people in public. To the point it became a reflex, like putting on a seat belt. But it doesn't mean I can't handle it when others aren't, it doesn't bother me.