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Re:Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger wo... by ihavedna on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @11:17AM (#11480290)
A lot of these conversations about these concepts seems to me to be made by people who have 1) never been triggered emotionally in a situation, public or private, 2) have never actually participated in safe space discussions. Outsider perception/view.

The discussion is primarily about how people perceive the idea of a safe space over the actual experience of it. I don't think it's very useful, it just reinforces peoples' perceptions of others without actually engaging with those peoples and concepts/experiences directly.

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Re:Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger wo... by marrs on Friday April 15, 2016 @01:20PM (#11506023)
Everyone has been triggered emotionally in a situation. I can't believe that anyone can even get through childhood without experiencing an emotional trigger of some sort. I think we can all relate to this.

As for safe spaces, this is fine if we're talking about a room at university, but if we're talking about making a university itself a "safe space" then forget about it. It's a public place where people have to live their lives.

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