Pansies and Politics
Mental health issues have hit a peak in recent years, it is as if everyone has some sort of psychological imbalance. “About 91 percent of college counseling center directors reported a rising trend of students with severe psychological problems on their campuses.” (Corley). To help those students’ campuses started labeling things with trigger warnings which are messages that say this has such content and could potentially distress someone. That’s a great idea for those struggling to overcome traumatic events, but there is a subset of these individuals, whose “trauma” remains questionable at best, who are trying to take that a step further by creating these so-called safe spaces. In short, a safe space is where students …show more content…
Paradoxically, that also means having minority groups deliberately segregating themselves from the rest of the campus on which they feel alienated.” (Milligan). There’s no doubt about the fact that they deserve the right to have a space to talk about the discrimination they face and such freely without the opinion of someone who hasn’t been through the same thing. However, it doesn’t need to be a designated safe space it could be anywhere. It’s not difficult to sit down and talk with a specific group of peers, your “click”. Say someone’s a racist, they have a group of friends and they want a safe space just for their group so they can freely speak on how much they dislike another ethnic group, no one would be for that now would they? No, anyone and everyone would be fighting tooth and nail to stop that from happening. It would still probably happen because that’s just how the system works, but no one is entitled to a safe space regardless of their race, gender, or sexuality. I think that’s the thing people miss the most, the fact that it doesn’t matter who you are and what you like. No one cares about your opinion unless it matches their
Mental health issues have hit a peak in recent years, it is as if everyone has some sort of psychological imbalance. “About 91 percent of college counseling center directors reported a rising trend of students with severe psychological problems on their campuses.” (Corley). To help those students’ campuses started labeling things with trigger warnings which are messages that say this has such content and could potentially distress someone. That’s a great idea for those struggling to overcome traumatic events, but there is a subset of these individuals, whose “trauma” remains questionable at best, who are trying to take that a step further by creating these so-called safe spaces. In short, a safe space is where students …show more content…
Paradoxically, that also means having minority groups deliberately segregating themselves from the rest of the campus on which they feel alienated.” (Milligan). There’s no doubt about the fact that they deserve the right to have a space to talk about the discrimination they face and such freely without the opinion of someone who hasn’t been through the same thing. However, it doesn’t need to be a designated safe space it could be anywhere. It’s not difficult to sit down and talk with a specific group of peers, your “click”. Say someone’s a racist, they have a group of friends and they want a safe space just for their group so they can freely speak on how much they dislike another ethnic group, no one would be for that now would they? No, anyone and everyone would be fighting tooth and nail to stop that from happening. It would still probably happen because that’s just how the system works, but no one is entitled to a safe space regardless of their race, gender, or sexuality. I think that’s the thing people miss the most, the fact that it doesn’t matter who you are and what you like. No one cares about your opinion unless it matches their