I believe in safe spaces

[Shankapotomus]

But not safe spaces for black from white or women from men or gay from straight or people with disabilities from the non-disabled.

I believe in safe space for the abused from the abusers. For the sensitive from the insensitive. For the hearing from the tone-deaf.

I believe abusers can be filtered out from our society if we know how to ask the right questions of people and not let them into our institutions when they provide the wrong answer.

If we can filter out minorities for hundreds of years, we can flip it and filter out abusers.

[hughee99]

1. Not trying to be an a-hole here, but who decides

What the "right" questions and the "right" answers are. In theory the system may work, but seems to have an enormous potential for abuse.

[Township75]

6. We deicde

By we I mean myself and other like minded individuals.

[hughee99]

8. Isn't this how the mess got started in the first place,

by a group of like-minded individuals deciding things?

[Township75]

9. Absolutely! But I wasn't part of that group which is why it turned out so badly.

That was sarcasm as was my previous post.

I agree with your first post and just played on it.

[hughee99]

11. I suspected, but I wasn't sure about the sarcasm

It's happened before that I've assumed it and it turns out I was wrong.

[FLPanhandle]

2. Disagree

Who decides what is insensitive? What qualifies as a sensitive person?

Maybe someone thinks BLM protesters qualify as "abusers"?

I will never support going down that path.

[Shankapotomus]

3. So if BLM protestors were to turn abusive

you would not support them being held accountable?

[FLPanhandle]

5. Define abusive

Many conservatives already think they are abusers. Blocking access to buildings, blocking highways, etc.

The problem with rules is whoever is in charge gets to make them up.

[TipTok]

4. You were ok right up until...

"For the sensitive from the insensitive."

That's kind of the point. The sensitive are hyper-sensitive and expect the rest of the world to accommodate.

At a certain point, these special snowflakes need to suck it up.

[romanic]

7. Safe spaces are just unrealistic.

You just can't filter reality.

[Throd]

10. That's a dangerous door you just opened.

"and not let them into our institutions when they provide the wrong answer. " Hija de la chingada.