@phoenix1616 or any other current student - Can you give some specific examples on the U of C campus of safe spaces, especially “official safe spaces”? I am more interested in the concrete reality on the Chicago campus than in the abstract concept. Critics tend to caricature the concept. I have a feeling that concrete examples would explode the caricature. Nevertheless, the concept does concern me in light of the long tradition of Chicago being a place of open discussion of ideas of all sorts, even rather crazy ones, and not only coming from invited speakers in lecture halls but taking place in classrooms and around dinner tables in dorms. I cherish the notion from my own days of absolutely free-wheeling and uninhibited discussion of all things under the sun and moon, with lots of disagreement and the testing of all arguments for their logic, evidence and cogency. Nevertheless, this isn’t the whole reality of student life. I am wondering if safe spaces might simply be places such as clubs and organizations of like-minded people where a student can go who wants to be out of that battle for a while and be among soul-mates. That sort of place has always been a part of campus life, and I see nothing wrong with it, unless it is now coupled to a more expansive thought that the battle itself is now a problem or that classrooms or lecture halls or dinner tables must all be safe spaces in that particular sense.