All anti-safe space arguments boil down to people being mad that spaces are no longer safe for their bigotry, racism, sexism, queer hate, ableism. "We shouldn't have safe spaces, learning should be DANGEROUS" means "this space should be safe for me and dangerous for you."
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and honestly I don't want to minimize this. I've been in spaces that were woke-er than I was, and it DOES feel genuinely difficult to navigate a space where the ethics are so different from the ones that feel "natural" and "normal" and "easy" for you.
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But guess what... THAT'S WHAT MARGINALIZED PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH FOREVER YOU DUMBASS. So if this discomfort shoe, this ethical mismatch shoe, this "oh god did I say the wrong thing" shoe gets to sit on the other foot for a hot minute, well. Only fair.
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We need to see safe spaces (or just spaces with different ethics than the ones we grew up with) as an opportunity to think "okay so if the people who I don't pay a lot of attention to were in charge, the world they'd make would look a little more like this."
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And then, if we have any interest in justice, in the removal of hegemony, in a world where the strong don't dominate the weak, we should make an effort to get good at living in this new space with these "weird" ethics.
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Because ultimately, we want the world to be more like that space, more like what more marginalized or devalued or disempowered folks WANT the world to be like.
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If you want to actualize the world where everyone feels free, then start by accepting the tiny opportunity to practice living in that world that a "safe space" gives you. ...duh.
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