Posted on 04/25/2015 1:40:00 PM PDT by QT3.14
One of the more contentious ideas to recently emerge from the culture war is that of "safe spaces." We are said to be at risk of social dangers. Sometimes these dangers are labeled denialism (in which someone's identity isn't recognized) or triggering speech (speech that sets off traumatic responses in unwitting listeners). The way some students at elite colleges combat these social dangers is to create, or demand the creation of, safe spaces. And just as often, students demand that their entire campus become a safe space.
Hence the wrong kind of speech is re-labeled as violence. The space only becomes safe when certain ideas (and the people expositing them) are banished. We're trying to build a supportive community, don't you know?
Why worry about the exotic (and sometimes silly) life of a college campus? Well, it matters because future elites who will set the norms and tone of our institutions of power are coming of age in this intellectual stew. At top colleges we already see the nepotistic acceptance of incurious mediocrity, the shirking of citizenship's duties, and a liberation from old constraints, all of which tell us about the future of our nation's social and political life.
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
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.
I hope their boss would fire them on the spot but my guess is that those idiots would be part of some 'protected class'
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.
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?
If “safe spaces” worked, all liberals would be locked up!
People need a certain level of stress. They will create whatever is needed to duly impute justification for that stress wherever possible.
Barney The Purple Dinosaur Nation.
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.
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.
Too bad those ‘safe spaces’ don’t extend to the womb.
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”.
“Why the ‘safe space’ movement is a liberal assault on freedom”
Oh. for Pete’s sake....bullcrap.
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.
If someone says that it doesn’t feel like a “safe space”, tell them that it’s targeted by Russian ICBMs.
Liberals don’t believe in freedom — never did — and they will do whatever it takes to destroy it.
I thought a “safe space” was the area around an armed good guy.
We already have a word for that: normal.
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