and where there are only consequences for having an opposing viewpoint?
Because sometimes you want to accept all views and other times you want to have a limited discussion. For instance in this particular discussion it wouldn't help the conversation very much if I started including topics about your ancestry, sexuality and sexual adequacy. So sorry, dude, you are in a limited discussion right now! Run away! Run away! Go to 4chan where you can be protected from the scourge of limitation.
I should run away from my college career to go to 4chan? Or my near-future college dorm to go to 4chan? You can employ sarcasm about the limitations on this forum all you want, but it's doubly irrelevant and your wit with this reply far exceeds your actual contribution.
When I say doubly irrelevant, I mean it as such: A. We're not in a college right now, we're on an internet forum discussion thread. I don't have to go to this forum to advance my life meaningfully, we're all here because we want to be on this particular forum, and to accept its limitations is natural. I don't live here, and it isn't my only area to discuss politics. College is different, I'll live there, and my life will revolve integrally around it -- my circle of peers and friends will develop there, and it'll be the only place irl I'll ever have much of a chance in to discuss my outlook while I'm there. Do you believe I shouldn't try?
B. As long as I'm not flaming or using racial slurs, there aren't many consequences to saying what I think here, since I'm not espousing hate, and I'm usually civil enough. But what I'm worried about is that that may not be the case at college, where there may
possibly (I may just be paranoid) be actual problems caused for me, social or otherwise, if I choose to express disagreement with certain things.
C (?): Well, maybe triply. You mentioned including topics about ancestry, sexuality, sexual adequacy, etc, but that isn't what I'm talking about in the slightest. I'm talking about having a view mainly relevant to whatever discussion is at hand and expressing it. I've never brought sexuality, ancestry, or sexual adequacy, or any sort of thing like that into a conversation here, and I've never felt especially limited here in conversation, if that's what you meant by limited conversation.
To clarify, I don't have any issue with, like, the various centers they have for various minorities on campuses in the like, with that aspect of what people usually consider to be safe spaces (it's a buzzword so it gets applied to a lot of things). I might find some things related to them to be questionable at times, but it's hardly as if it affects me, and if it provides actual help to people who need it, then good.
What I have an issue with is what I see as a push to turn entire college campuses or dormitories into such areas where only a certain political leaning is really accepted, because I don't want to be restricted from having my views in the place where I will be living and learning every day, and where I'm looking forward to being able to converse with many, many people of different view points and shape myself and my views accordingly. I'm afraid of the Yale incident sort of stuff, that's what I think if when I think of the whole safe space debacle. Whether or not you think that's misplaced worry or wrong in some way or
whatever is up to you, but I'd like to at least be taken seriously, here.
B.