There Are No Safe Spaces

What the homeless guy said to me before he bent me right over. and Noah flipped out his phone.

While a "safe space" may give the illusion of some sort of happy utopia where everybody's opinions and beliefs are accepted, I can assure you that it is ANYTHING but that. In reality, safe spaces can turn out to be some of the most unpleasant and toxic places to be in, especially if it's on the internet.

The problem with safe spaces is not the idea of it, but rather that it attracts egocentric insecure individuals who take advantage of the "safe space" by infecting it with their highly argumentative and opinionated nature. These individuals tend to engage in highly sober discussions, and will come off as entitled sanctimonious asses who aren't afraid to shut you down if they hear something they don't like or agree with, or think it's wrong. But of course, being a "safe space" and all, no one is allowed to fight with them, thus creating a self-perpetuating echo chamber for them. It is certainly an unpleasant experience if you came to the safe space for positive vibes.

This is often the case for small-sized Twitch streams that use the !safespace tag. Occasionally, you'll meet one or two people down in the chat (mostly grown men) that engage in overly sober discussions and like to express their thoughts in the most assertive way possible. Whatever you do, don't fall for these safe spaces. You are more likely to feel happy, safe and accepted in any of the well-known gaming streams without any safe space tag.

Like communism, great idea, bad execution.

A special area located with a College/University where groups of easily offended melts meet up to have their asses talcum powdered by staff hired to babysit them.

A bubble of content usually seen in colleges or universities where dissenting opinions aren't allowed and where grown people are treated like toddlers by staff hired to babysit them. Usually associated with SJWs.

Synonymous with the terms echo chamber and circle-jerk.

A special room on campus where university educated young adults go and behave like children whenever they suffer a severe case of trump-a- meltression

a place where no fun is allowed and people that get offended by the wind usually hang out

A place where individuals of an oppressed group can go to find community with other individuals of the same group without feeling the threat of harassment or violence. People who are against the idea of safe spaces often misconstrue them as a place to escape reality, when actually they are places people go to understand the collective reality of oppression and find support. A safe space is not ignorant of hard realities, it's just a place where people can go to exist without fear of harassment based on parts of their identity.