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There are multiple arguments "at hand". The one I refer to is beaker52's argument that a call for trigger warnings and safe spaces is due to a childish rejectio
by dalke 11y ago
There are multiple arguments "at hand". The one I refer to is beaker52's argument that a call for trigger warnings and safe spaces is due to a childish rejection of the real world. I disagree with that conclusion, for reasons I gave.
I think you are talking about a different argument?
Personally, I see direct parallels to the current call for "safe spaces" to older calls for non-gendered job titles, prohibitions on the casual use of racist slurs, the student protests against Kissinger appointment to Columbia which lead to the university cancelling his appointment, and more. I can't point to a time when there wasn't a debate about a "change in society to accommodate the fear or the offence".
It all seems more of outrage about "kids these days" and "things were more meaningful when I was your age" than anything else.
Is that the argument at hand that you refer to?
- cholantesh 11y ago>It all seems more of outrage about "kids these days" and "things were more meaningful when I was your age" than anything else. In most cases, that's exactly what it is.