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 can go to be away and feel “safe” from others opinions. If you don’t like someone’s opinion then don’t listen to it, no one’s forcing you to listen. It’s time to stop acting like entitled brats and grow up. A college is a place designed for adults, not 2-year-olds who don’t know how to behave. You will find that those who are pro-safe spaces are more often than not, incredibly obstinate. Most people are able to understand that there are certain topics that can be considered offensive or even “triggering”, but it is your choice, as a human, to either stay in that space or get up and walk away before it becomes an issue. Having your own opinion is what makes you human, however, when you lose the ability to even acknowledge another person’s way of thinking it becomes the issue that it is today. A college is a place for everyone to feel comfortable to voice their opinions and by doing that we are able to learn from one another. Some just don’t seem to understand that because of how ridiculously self-centered they are. I need to feel safe, I need my opinions to not be threatened, and so on. Who was it that coddled these individuals to the point that they see themselves above one of the constitutional amendments? You can’t reasonably expect to strip someone of their right to freely speak just to avoid “triggering” someone. In said safe spaces you’re oppressing that right to voice one’s opinion simply to accommodate someone else’s oversensitivity. Furthermore, there’s the amount of space that these safe spaces will take up and the funding that goes into it. Many schools already have funding issues and using the funding that they do receive on safe spaces would only be a waste. “Public colleges and universities across the country have increased tuition… by $1,936, or 28 percent.” (Mitchell et al). We could be using these funds for the betterment of the universities quality of education, not to pay for safe spaces. Our primary concern needs to be education we receive, that’s why we pay to go. Just as well, this funding could go toward bringing new instructors to teach new classes or fill in the current gaps in the teaching staff. The options of where it could go are …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