A popular vote on whether to allow some people basic human rights? Stay classy, Ireland, stay classy.

Uhm, the very nature of human groups (tribes) were to create community ‘safe spaces’ where individuals didn’t face the outside world (threats of various sorts) individually?

a public school refusing to allow the exchange of ideas, no matter how execrable some of those ideas might be, is incompatible with American principles I cherish.

Also, OP doesn’t even realize what the original safe spaces were. Here’s an brief summary, courtesy (of all places) of Cracked:

They’re literally mad that their safe space to say whatever racist or sexist thing that pops into their head unchallenged has been partially taken away. And then they get super offended about the “snowflakes” who have the gall to speak up when something offends them. It would be hilarious if it weren’t so sad.

Wait, Zeetal! You’re saying I can’t run into the middle of a Sunday sermon and start screaming the alphabet at the top of my lungs and have everyone listen to my “point of view” quietly and respectfully? They’ll ask me to leave before I get to my rant about how LMNOP should be arranged LOPNM?

Better ideas win. Strength of character wins. Empathy wins.

Spoken like every conservative who heard about liberal values exclusively through FOX News, their conservative emails listservs, and their conservative friends.

There was a building near where I stayed on my last vacation that advertised itself as a safe space for HIV positive people. Presumably it was a place people could go where they would be free to discuss the issues in their lives with people who understand and free from the judgment and non-empathy they might face from…

Well when I came out and started transitioning back in college a decade (oh god) ago, “safe space” had a very specific meaning. Like, my school’s LGBT Center was a safe space, and all it meant was that there was a place other than my dorm room where I could go without having to worry about getting stared at or called…

Inviting a high-profile misogynist to take the stage on campus is not an “exchange”. A lecture is the exact opposite of an exchange. It is just that - a lecture. One person talks, everyone else listens. When Milo Yannopolis was invited to speak, the students rightfully protested that he harassed and intimidated Leslie…

“if one demands an echo chamber during this phase of their life, how will they function later?”

And what the fuck is Tim Allen mad about? No one likes his “hot taek” wife jokes aka “the ol’ ball and chain?” Yeah, Tim, it’s the “libruls” who you ruined your observations about her taking an hour to get ready to go out to dinner.

Tim Allen and Adam Carolla are the biggest complainers in comedy. I’m just like, “Have you guys considered telling jokes that make people laugh instead of feeling like shit? Sounds like a good place to start, but what do I know?”

I don’t get what the asshole who did Home Improvement and Santa Clause is so bitchy about anyway. He should fuckin’ retire on his Disney bucks.

“I want to just be able to use *offensive term* again without people getting mad! I have a whole routine for it!”

Exactly. “I can’t punch down anymore!”; “I can’t rely on the bigotry of my audience to compensate for my weak material anymore!”; “I can’t trade in easy stereotypes for cheap laughs anymore!”

When comedians complain that they can’t do comedy now that “everyone gets offended” what they’re really saying is “our job is too hard now that we can’t pressure women and minorities into awkwardly chuckling when we blatantly insult them.”

They’re just mad because they can’t make money and be left alone while making lazy jokes that point fun at the already marginalized anymore. If anyone needs a safe space, it’s them, and it’s obnoxious that they don’t realize that they are the whiny ones.

I find the whole “we can’t joke about what’s happening in the world with people getting offended!” line so disingenuous because there are countless comedians making a living joking about what happening in the world in a thoughtful way. What they really mean is “no one find ME and MY casual bigotry funny anymore, and…