The idea of "safe spaces" seems to reflect a bizarre new kind of segregationist logic. I wonder what these spaces actually look like.
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Speaking from experience: Often places where a few mainstream behaviors are policed so that many other behaviors can flourish.
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The policing of masculinity is itself policed in some spaces, e.g., freeing those otherwise excluded to assert that identity.
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In non-sardonic usage, it's often very literal: To be visibly trans is a good way to get *murdered* in some public spaces.
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thus - those who don't feel like they have beliefs/identities that others would kill for may not believe in safe spaces
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It's also hard to appreciate the value of safe spaces when one has the privilege of treating public spaces as such.
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I think the sense of security is false. The tsar can always choose to invade ghetto, whoever defines and names it
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A false sense, ultimately, but a very real ghetto for those stuck there before and after the invasion.
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believing in a shared imaginary is a powerful self fulfilling prophecy (eg nationstates); saying 'it's safe' may make it so


