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shraby

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2. What's wrong with making every place a safe place for people?

Reply to Chitown Kev (Original post)

Mon Nov 16, 2015, 02:42 PM

Nov 2015

Whenever possible, shut down the genocide talk. Genocide is illegal from the get-go.
It's a crime against humanity, and anyone who advocates such actions should be publically ostracized from all quarters.

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A quick thought on the why of safe(r) spaces [View all] Chitown Kev Nov 2015 OP

I just read somewhere that if you have a place only for you, safe, that you are being mean randys1 Nov 2015 #1

What's wrong with making every place a safe place for people? shraby Nov 2015 #2

Well, how DO you make every place a "safe space"? Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #3

Education is the name of the game. Enlightened people do shraby Nov 2015 #4

Enlightened people think of, say, and do pretty unenlightend things, as well. Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #5

Explain "scientific racism" Thought that went out with shraby Nov 2015 #6

I'll give you a Wikipedia page Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #7

Scientific racism shraby Nov 2015 #8

And it sells... Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #9

It sells to the lowest common denominator. Thinking people know shraby Nov 2015 #10

The LCD = an awful lot of folks...millions...people who vote Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #11

There will never be a safe place. Like I said, education is the shraby Nov 2015 #12

Education....sooooo.... Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #14

I hear what you are saying about needing a safe place. I do jwirr Nov 2015 #29

But you are better able the confidence to be able to handle those situations Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #33

Okay I had thought about the black colleges and it makes jwirr Nov 2015 #39

Wow - that link is a required reading list for white supremacists. jwirr Nov 2015 #28

You're welcome! Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #31

No, we don't need safe spaces. Kentonio Nov 2015 #13

Not necessarily...after all, the oldest African American religious denomination began, to extent Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #15

It's the last line of your post that worries me. Kentonio Nov 2015 #18

We're getting somewhere Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #19

Yeah, as I think more about it.. Kentonio Nov 2015 #21

I went to an black college in the South for a time Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #23

Good example using the family. Interracial marriage also jwirr Nov 2015 #32

Remember, I'm black AND LGBT and a religious agnostic so... Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #16

You can't enforce acceptance without being totalitarian ram2008 Nov 2015 #25

Thing is Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #26

But again, what designates something as a safe space? ram2008 Nov 2015 #27

But people do have a need (and maybe a right) Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #30

Again colleges are literally the safest spaces there are ram2008 Nov 2015 #34

Jesuit schools rock Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #35

Woohoo Jesuits! I guess it boils down to what I believe the duty of preserving safety entails ram2008 Nov 2015 #36

If you go to a Jesuit school Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #37

Most College Students are already safe, that's the reality ram2008 Nov 2015 #17

I disagree with you Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #20

What can an institution do to change this? ram2008 Nov 2015 #22

Well, yes... Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #24

"unwanted sexual contact?" gollygee Nov 2015 #38

Because the two are not the same ram2008 Nov 2015 #40

Rape is not always done under threat of violence gollygee Nov 2015 #41

That part is correct ram2008 Nov 2015 #43

But the link uses the specific and appropriate Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #42

The methodology of that survey is a bit flawed to begin with ram2008 Nov 2015 #44