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Originally Posted by ferrets_bueller
I believe the refutation of trigger warnings, safe spaces, and shouting down speakers of any stripe is important.
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Most of the people complaining about safe spaces have plenty of their own. Why do whites cluster among themselves so much? You know all those spaces white people cluster, whether country clubs, schools, churches, homes, those are safe spaces. For white people.
As to shouting people down, what do you think about the people who block the Westboro Baptist Church folks who protest at funerals and the like? Should they not shout them down and block them out? How much difference is there between Westboro and Milo or one of the other alt-right neo-Nazis? Is there any meaningful difference? They have a right to speak, but not a right to a platform at a particular place or to be able to shut down others who want to speak.
Sure, I believe in being civil, but there are times and places that call for incivility - blocking the Westboro Baptist Church protesters at funerals is clearly one. I don't think it's a bright line - who has been shut down whom you think is civil themselves, who wasn't going to, for example, call for the schools to exclude and not accept many of the people protesting? Maybe tell them they don't belong and should leave the country?
I also think incivility can backfire, which is why we've learned that the alt-right has paid people to dress up and cause problems at some of their talks. They live off that stuff.
As to trigger warnings, what, you don't want the TV shows to tell us when there is violence or nudity on a show? Think of the kids!
Bottom line: most of this stuff is overblown, often by people with an agenda for overblowing it. Don't react with a knee-jerk against all of it, think.
