A university is not safe. Dick professors, an overwhelming amount of work that's just like a door to depression, crippling debt, and don't forget school shootings.
I agree that university is about challenging ideas and you're not always going to be comfortable, but I don't think that's an excuse either. I don't really see a problem with trigger warnings if it helps a student not have to relive a bad past or a traumatic event, I know university is about learning and growing but in certain situations I think students do deserve a safe space.
Uh no. I fucking hate being at home. It makes me so depressed. I'm much better off at uni where in surrounded by people who actually like me. And my own room. And my own bathroom. And no one telling me to wake up.
*opinions while being respectful of disagreements... But I feel like some people want a 'safe space' where nobody voices disagreements with them, and that's not what university's is for.
Well, " safe space " is mostly used for silencing disagreements as being " offensive ". Basically peope trying to censor others for the sake of being " politically correct "
I shouldn't say "discriminate" as much as "shutting people down who disagree because you don't want to hear what they're really trying to say so you attack their words instead of their argument". Ad hominem I think it's called.
Well it itself isn't used to discriminate but it's sort of there, of that makes sense ?
Like on the low key side you got he argument about calling black people " African American " to be PC even though there are black people in other places but Africa and America
Then on the other, more extreme side, you have it to where you really can't to much of anything. You can't share culture without being labeled as racist for like eating Mexican food or getting Mehndi done. I've even seen peope say getting your hair braided is racist.
Also, males, especially the " white, cis, straight " ones, are treated like the devil, even though they may have their own shit to go through.
I'm not explaining it very well, I'm sick, but let me find the tumblr in action reddit, there's lots of examples there.
I feel like that's not the majority of people though... I think it can be extreme I guess but my point is that there's nothing wrong with universities feeling safe for students
It's not using safe space as the environment feeling safe
Safe space is a way to say a place where there is literally nothing negative
If someone disagrees with you you can say it's offensive and get them in trouble
And it is a majority somewhat because some colleges are taking part of it, I think a few even have mandatory consent classes for males
A "safe space" is actually the opposite of free expression and sharing of thoughts. Anything that doesn't pass politically correct muster is suppressed. Political Correctness has a long reach in that some things are dependent on who says them as to whether they're OK to say or not. A transgender person may be able to express an opinion that a cis-straight is not allowed to utter, even if it's the same opinion expressed in the same words.
An interesting example of suppression is the journalism professor ("No censorship ever!") disliking a student newspaper correspondent reporting on a student protest she was involved in, and calling for people to forcibly throw him out of the quad. The protest was outdoors, and the reporter was a student (so justified to be there), but apparently she didn't think that he'd report the event in the exact way she wanted.
he doesn't get harassed
Like on the low key side you got he argument about calling black people " African American " to be PC even though there are black people in other places but Africa and America
Then on the other, more extreme side, you have it to where you really can't to much of anything. You can't share culture without being labeled as racist for like eating Mexican food or getting Mehndi done. I've even seen peope say getting your hair braided is racist.
Also, males, especially the " white, cis, straight " ones, are treated like the devil, even though they may have their own shit to go through.
I'm not explaining it very well, I'm sick, but let me find the tumblr in action reddit, there's lots of examples there.
Safe space is a way to say a place where there is literally nothing negative
If someone disagrees with you you can say it's offensive and get them in trouble
And it is a majority somewhat because some colleges are taking part of it, I think a few even have mandatory consent classes for males
isn't that rape?
That's what I meant
An interesting example of suppression is the journalism professor ("No censorship ever!") disliking a student newspaper correspondent reporting on a student protest she was involved in, and calling for people to forcibly throw him out of the quad. The protest was outdoors, and the reporter was a student (so justified to be there), but apparently she didn't think that he'd report the event in the exact way she wanted.