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Why the 'safe space' movement is a liberal assault on freedom
The Week ^ | April 23, 2015 | Michael Brendan Dougherty

Posted on 04/25/2015 1:40:00 PM PDT by QT3.14

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To: mrsmel

Look at the unemployment stats (and i dont mean U3)for the “future elites” who are trying to enter the workforce. They aren’t pretty.

Managers are increasingly going for experienced hires, Xers and trailing edge Boomers, wherever possible. And there are enough of them out there to hire.

Why take the risk of hiring some kid out of college who, thinking that their college experience applies, will ruin your business because they’re “offended” about something on an incredibly petty level and never learned how the real world works?

They can get that experience via Starbucks. After 5-8 years of pouring other peoples’ coffee they might just have enough attitude correction to be entry-level productive in a professional job.


21 posted on 04/25/2015 3:25:02 PM PDT by tanknetter
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The scary part is that one day these kids will be in the workforce. Then their boss will ask them to do something and the first thing they will say is "You should have told me there would be trigger words. You need to respect my safe space."

I hope their boss would fire them on the spot but my guess is that those idiots would be part of some 'protected class'

22 posted on 04/25/2015 3:41:51 PM PDT by teacherwoes (Alethephobia-fear of hearing the truth)
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To: QT3.14

The latest threat to these pantywaists: Heteronormativity.
Definition: Heteronormativity is the cultural bias in favor of opposite-sex relationships of a sexual nature, and against same-sex relationships of a sexual nature.


23 posted on 04/25/2015 3:44:20 PM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: QT3.14

I’m getting tired of having to police my speech because other people are too lazy to get their (sometimes debilitating) neuroses treated. Why is my freedom limited because others aren’t responsible enough to get help?


24 posted on 04/25/2015 3:46:31 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: mrsmel

If “safe spaces” worked, all liberals would be locked up!


25 posted on 04/25/2015 3:47:10 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: QT3.14

People need a certain level of stress. They will create whatever is needed to duly impute justification for that stress wherever possible.


26 posted on 04/25/2015 3:55:45 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Hillary:polarizing/calculating/disingenuous/insincere/ambitious/inevitable/entitled/overconfident/se)
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To: clintonh8r

Barney The Purple Dinosaur Nation.


27 posted on 04/25/2015 3:58:29 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: tanknetter

I don’t know if Starbucks jobs would fix them or not. Starbucks is the joint that wanted its “baristas” (I’m so old, I remember when they were called cashiers and waitresses) to ask people about their views on race-I guess so they could set them straight. Just reason 1,589 that I’ll never need to go to Starbucks. Unless I feel like venting some day in public.


28 posted on 04/25/2015 4:02:18 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: teacherwoes

They already are in the workforce.

I know more than one hiring manager who, having been burned really badly by someone professionally aggrieved, looks for a minimum of 5 years of solid work experience as a qualifier for bringing someone onboard.

Pouring coffee doesn’t count. The talent pool is too big, especially with a lot of combat vets who (generally) DO have a good work ethic. Let someone else take the risk and provide the “real world” 2x4 to the face.

Actually, I know of someone (through one of my professional networks) who got sued by a gal who didn’t get the job and cried discrimination. It was amazing how quicky the suit went away when he showed the guy he did hire had a Bronze Star and Purple Heart.


29 posted on 04/25/2015 4:10:23 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: mrsmel

Too bad those ‘safe spaces’ don’t extend to the womb.


30 posted on 04/25/2015 4:12:28 PM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: LydiaLong

Very good point. No one should be safer than a baby, and no place should be safer than his mother’s womb. Instead, they’re the west’s “killing fields”.


31 posted on 04/25/2015 4:16:24 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: QT3.14

“Why the ‘safe space’ movement is a liberal assault on freedom”

Oh. for Pete’s sake....bullcrap.


32 posted on 04/25/2015 4:47:34 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: dfwgator

Definitely underrated, I assume because Stallone was in it, although I would say he did quite well in that movie. The movie was full of references to Huxley’s Brave New World.


33 posted on 04/25/2015 5:20:03 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: mrsmel

If someone says that it doesn’t feel like a “safe space”, tell them that it’s targeted by Russian ICBMs.


34 posted on 04/25/2015 5:24:28 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: QT3.14

Liberals don’t believe in freedom — never did — and they will do whatever it takes to destroy it.


35 posted on 04/25/2015 5:40:07 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: QT3.14

I thought a “safe space” was the area around an armed good guy.


36 posted on 04/25/2015 10:34:13 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: dainbramaged

We already have a word for that: normal.


37 posted on 04/25/2015 10:45:19 PM PDT by antidisestablishment (GOP delenda est!)
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