When did this "Safe Space" concept, which implies other spaces are unsafe, creep onto center stage? Safe Spaces seem to be a mechanism for creating ever-constricting spheres of special access around select individuals, both breeding a sense of elitism inside the protected area, and fostering resentment in those excluded. There's a reason segregation is discouraged in America: Black-only clubs create just as much societal conflict as the White-only ones. And of course, eventually any such artificial identification gets exploited for someone's own personal benefit. Like all the other new vernacular coming out of college campuses and other public facilities; terms like “microaggressions,” “trigger warnings” & “hate speech,” language is being used to distort the existing power structure. It's also used to physically enforce Group Think: if you do not act & speak exactly as instructed, you are barred from the Safe Space, which could be a classroom, dining hall, and even extend to student ne
