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> Very brave of Ken to call out women, black people, and the LGBT community. He didn't do that. He used the term 'safe spaces' to talk about something else, w

> Very brave of Ken to call out women, black people, and the LGBT community. He didn't do that. He used the term 'safe spaces' to talk about something else, which was obviously a mistake but please don't get hung up on the terminology and read the whole and follow a few of the links.

parfe 11y ago
>He didn't do that. You must have read his writing differently than I considering he wrote: >I call these young people out for valuing illusory and subjective safety over liberty.
- aptwebapps 11y ago
  I can see how that sounds but take a look a the preceding paragraph and the links in it: "For some time I've been mean [0] to university students who feel entitled to a "safe space" [1] — by which they seem to mean a space where they are insulated [2] from ideas they don't like [3]." He does not mean "I hereby call out out these young people ..." but rather "This is what I did in the preceding links". This is a sticky topic and it's really easy to read stuff into things that isn't there - especially when the author expropriates a term like 'safe spaces' but if you read it critically and follow a few of the links I think you'll discover that he is in no way attacking minorities. 0. http://popehat.com/2014/11/05/breaking-existence-of-u-of-oregon-student-senator-miles-sisk-confirms-failure-of-american-experiment/ http://popehat.com/2014/11/05/breaking-existence-of-u-of-ore... 1. http://popehat.com/2015/04/14/fear-and-butthurt-at-uc-san-diego/ http://popehat.com/2015/04/14/fear-and-butthurt-at-uc-san-di... 2. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/opinion/sunday/judith-shulevitz-hiding-from-scary-ideas.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/opinion/sunday/judith-shul... 3. http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2015/04/opinion-campus-speakers-should-be-chosen-with-discretion http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2015/04/opinion-campus-s...

parfe 11y ago

>He didn't do that. You must have read his writing differently than I considering he wrote: >I call these young people out for valuing illusory and subjective safety over liberty.

aptwebapps 11y ago
I can see how that sounds but take a look a the preceding paragraph and the links in it: "For some time I've been mean [0] to university students who feel entitled to a "safe space" [1] — by which they seem to mean a space where they are insulated [2] from ideas they don't like [3]." He does not mean "I hereby call out out these young people ..." but rather "This is what I did in the preceding links". This is a sticky topic and it's really easy to read stuff into things that isn't there - especially when the author expropriates a term like 'safe spaces' but if you read it critically and follow a few of the links I think you'll discover that he is in no way attacking minorities. 0. http://popehat.com/2014/11/05/breaking-existence-of-u-of-oregon-student-senator-miles-sisk-confirms-failure-of-american-experiment/ http://popehat.com/2014/11/05/breaking-existence-of-u-of-ore... 1. http://popehat.com/2015/04/14/fear-and-butthurt-at-uc-san-diego/ http://popehat.com/2015/04/14/fear-and-butthurt-at-uc-san-di... 2. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/opinion/sunday/judith-shulevitz-hiding-from-scary-ideas.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/opinion/sunday/judith-shul... 3. http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2015/04/opinion-campus-speakers-should-be-chosen-with-discretion http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2015/04/opinion-campus-s...