>>>Why is it wrong for a group of people to have a place they can go to talk to their peers? White men have had these for centuries--they call them private clubs.
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>>>What kind of world do you live in? I'm so glad that I don't live in it - it would be too depressing.
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>>>I am not sitting in judgment of young people who are so fragile that they need to be protected from any kind of speech that disagrees with or challenges their current belief system. I always thought that listening to ideas that are different from mine helped to expand my horizons and make me a better person. I can never learn anything if I am never exposed to new ideas.
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>>You're missing the whole point. They don't want to protected from hearing new ideas. They want an opportunity to have a place where they can relax and let their hair down, so to speak.
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>We called that a bar, but we could drink at 18 then.
>Seriously, calling something a "safe zone" implies that there are unsafe zones.
>We are talking about a college campus here- not Mosul in Iraq.
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For women, there are unsafe zones. For Muslims in the US, there are unsafe zones. For black Americans, there are unsafe zones. For LGBT Americans, there are unsafe zones.

You may have read right before the election about an enormous secret FB group called Pantsuit Nation. (It's now about 3.6M members.) The stories people there told (and are telling) about their experiences of being harrassed, assaulted, and otherwise diminished are heartbreaking. A lot of people in this country need somewhere to know that they can talk freely and safely.

Tamar