Safe spaces?
Safe spaces are receiving a lot of discussion lately.
Universities, for example, are encouraged to be, or to have, 'safe spaces' for
students: places where students - particularly LGBT students - can feel safe
from being persecuted, harassed, and so on.
However, 'safe spaces' are increasingly being a seen as a
threat to free speech. For example, when Maryam Namazie, an ex-Muslim critic of
Islam, spoke at Goldsmith's College University of London, her event was
disrupted by some Muslim students who shouted 'Safe space!' - they
believed that their University should protect them from such speech. Many,
myself included, thought this was a ridiculous abuse of the concept of safe
space.
Continues over at CFI blogs.
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The closest we had was a campus gay group. That was even less "safe" for me, because I was some sort of freak for being in the sciences, instead of the woo.
I signed in anonymous in case they attack me.
Regards, Paul.