Ok, let's. (But please thread next time, whew.)https://twitter.com/BretStephensNYT/status/867400516309053444 …
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You could have used any example of safe space, but you chose one worded to make students sound as laughable & infantilized as possible.
Your entire speech is about how safe spaces are for "children" who need to leave their "cocoon" - that's not an "endorsement"
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You derided safe space to a group of well-off white men that, as a whole, do not worry about safety in the same way that women & POC have to
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That you don't see the issue there is telling.
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You also didn't consider the danger in telling a group of young white men that the efforts of others to seek safety is 'childish'
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What's even worse than mocking victims' attempts to feel safe is disbelieving them. You told Vox rape stats "have a...slim basis in reality"
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You also suggested that if women were getting raped that much we'd go to single-sex colleges!
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So spare me your moral outrage - you have zero credibility.
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@JessicaValenti spirit of your critique is dishonest; your fixation on gender/skin color of audience reveals more about you than about him.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Undo -
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@JessicaValenti the bulk of his critique is re IDEOLOGICAL safe spaces; where disagreement about certain ideas becomes "unsafe" and banned.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Undo -
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@JessicaValenti the part of the speech you take issue with is described by Bret as one "that sounds harmless enough." (1/2)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Undo -
Safe spaces do not exist in the real world; only in the bubble of academia.
@BretStephensNYT is not the person harming women here.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Undo -
I grew up shoveling chicken shit, been elbow deep in a cow's vagina to pull a calf out, and have shot coyotes that got a bit too curious.
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Ideological safe spaces merely reinforces the idea that women cannot deal with differing ideas, that we need to be protected.
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weak bitches (male, female, and whatever other made-up genders) need to toughen up
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