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Then oddly enough, it becomes less about you being challenged and more about those who believe you shouldn't exist being challenged. Colleges are great for expo
by DarkTree 10y ago
Then oddly enough, it becomes less about you being challenged and more about those who believe you shouldn't exist being challenged. Colleges are great for exposure to peers with varying backgrounds and beliefs and are great for fostering understanding of each other's viewpoints. Isolating your group to spaces of the same people will probably strengthen that demarcation and lessen the incentive (and the ability) for those with hardened beliefs to understand the other side's viewpoints. Sometimes all it takes is befriending one LGBTQ to melt that belief.
- makomk 10y agoWhat if, sometimes, LGBTQ people want to achieve things other than challenging people who believe they don't exist - things like, say, arranging financial support for people who've been disowned by their family for being gay and are in danger of becoming homeless, or even just having a friendly chat with other LGBTQ people about their experiences? That's what the LGBT space at university was used for when I was there.
- cmdrfred 10y agoFeel free to do so on their private property as has always been their right.
- fnovd 10y agoMany universities are private property, and students have a say in how they are used, hence school-sanction safe spaces existing in the first place.
- cmdrfred 10y agoAs long as they receive no public funding I don't see a problem with it, but you don't get to take federal dollars and put up a no whites allowed sign on the door.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoThere's nothing wrong with talking to or gathering with other people like you or other people who think like you. The problem is when that's the only thing you do.