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"In the months prior to the election, "safe spaces" had been one of the most widely discussed terms at Oberlin. The concept has its roots in feminism and describes a physically and intellectually sheltered space that protects one from potentially insulting, injurious or traumatizing ideas or comments -- a place, in short, that protects one from the world. When conservative philosopher and feminism critic Christina Hoff Sommers was scheduled to give a speech at Oberlin last year, some students did not approve and claimed that Sommer's views on feminism represented "microaggressions."
When Sommers appeared anyway, leading some Oberlin students to create a "safe space" during the speech where, as one professor reported, "New Age music" was played to calm their nerves and ease their trauma. They could also "get massages and console themselves with stuffed animals."
When a group of coddled, spoiled overgrown children attempt to overrule simple empirical reason by legislating their pipe dreams -- the Big Policeman (a/k/a "reality") takes over; it really is that simple.
This is PoC crap. You're not ready for Great Debates.
What exactly is the debate? Is it about safe spaces? Or Obama's foreign policy, which is the only subject you took a position on. To address that, I don't understand the comparison. Rather than guess where you're going, I'll ask for an explanation.
As for safe spaces, they don't need to exist. University should be about ideas and debating them, not hiding ones we don't like. But, so long as college is nothing but a jobs training program, I'm not sure such an argument will gain much traction.
"In the months prior to the election, "safe spaces" had been one of the most widely discussed terms at Oberlin. The concept has its roots in feminism and describes a physically and intellectually sheltered space that protects one from potentially insulting, injurious or traumatizing ideas or comments -- a place, in short, that protects one from the world. When conservative philosopher and feminism critic Christina Hoff Sommers was scheduled to give a speech at Oberlin last year, some students did not approve and claimed that Sommer's views on feminism represented "microaggressions."
When Sommers appeared anyway, leading some Oberlin students to create a "safe space" during the speech where, as one professor reported, "New Age music" was played to calm their nerves and ease their trauma. They could also "get massages and console themselves with stuffed animals."
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