I like your point, I think you make a rational argument. As someone who got in trouble for brandishing a paperclip, many years ago.... little, if anything, is black and white.

I agree in part although I think both terms have been bastardized beyond what may be salvageable.

Everyone deserves a “safe space” in the sense that you should be safe(emotionally and physically) on campus. We’re not entitled to an “intellectually safe space”. College/university is there to challenge your intellect.

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There’s a difference between, say, calling out people for using racist language or racial dog whistles, on the one hand, and constant demands for “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings” for students who express their discomfort over confronting an idea that makes them Feel Bad. It’s the latter problem to which,…

yes, your generation is the only one that’s ever had to deal with economic obstacles.

To start off - your “counter-argument” is to reduce anyone who disagrees with safe spaces as being upset that they can’t be politically incorrect. That is an ad hominem argument that has no standing, in college or the real world.

Check out what kind of trigger warnings appear on some of the more ambitious thinkpieces out there on tumblr and further afield, and you’ll see why people are complaining.

I’m not so sure about this. We had this debate in our Law and Race class in law school. Open dialogue is what is needed, not a situation where dialogue is shut off.

This is the part of the argument I never understood. Because where do you draw the line? ANYTHING has the potential to cause trauma. You can’t possibly warn people about everything that has the potential to be discussed, especially in a college classroom environment. I’m all for being sensitive to people’s traumas,…