<story><title>An obsession with safe spaces is not just bad for education</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21678223-obsession-safe-spaces-not-just-bad-education-it-also-diminishes-worthwhile-campus</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_Marak_</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been following a lot of this develop over Twitter and Youtube.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s both sad and terrifying to see what is transpiring on these college campuses. There was a video filmed ( now taken down from youtube ) where a Yale Silliman College professor was trying to reason with some of these students.&lt;p&gt;The professor vehemently defended the rights to free-speech, while the students screamed at him that offensive speech should not be allowed on campus.&lt;p&gt;When the professor asked, &amp;quot;Who should be responsible for determining what is offensive speech?&amp;quot;, a student replied with, &amp;quot;Anything that offends me!&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>An obsession with safe spaces is not just bad for education</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21678223-obsession-safe-spaces-not-just-bad-education-it-also-diminishes-worthwhile-campus</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jagger27</author><text>The last I had heard of the term was in high school where a handful of teachers and administrators had a small rainbow sticker on the windows of their doors indicating that the room was a place where one would feel safe from discrimination. It was an anti-bullying movement that not provided a place to eat lunch, do work, etc. but more importantly gave victims a place to seek help and privately report offences. Bear in mind the system came into existence to fight homophobia.&lt;p&gt;The beast this movement has evolved into, if it has any relationship to the system I knew, has come completely off the rails and seems to me to be turning into the bully.</text></comment>