RE: Political Correctness
December 29, 2015 at 5:57 am
(This post was last modified: December 29, 2015 at 6:04 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(December 29, 2015 at 4:57 am)Pandæmonium Wrote: Yale Safe Zones. Thoughts?
What are those? Is it the same as "Safe Spaces"? I'm under impression, that most people don't realize what those are, or what they're for.
If recovering alcoholics and junkies can have support groups, where they're allowed to seek help and understanding without being openly judged, if religious nuts can have their churches, where they can do the same thing - what's wrong with young people, struggling with - say - their gender identity or sexuality, having similar option - a place where they can talk about what they're going through, without some f***nut yelling out bible quotes?
Vitriolic reaction to this seemingly innocuous social initiative puzzles me. Yeah, sure - let's have a number of large tax-exempt and/or governmentally funded organizations, that help people deal with their fear of bogey-men under their beds, but let's make sure university students don't have such an option, because they might grow up to be mummy's little sissies...
EDIT - Of course, I'm not advocating for the entire universities, becoming "safe spaces", so if the expansion of the concept is what people have the problem with - I can kind of see it.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
