Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger words and safe spaces
This problem of &#x27;triggering&#x27; and &#x27;safe places&#x27; has been something I&#x27;ve recently become acutely aware of. It seems to have strong ties with the &#x27;Social Justice Warrior&#x27; and I can&#x27;t help but feel it is detrimental to a liberal and free, loving and open society, despite trying to champion it.<p>I call it oversensitivity, Fry calls it infantile. I don&#x27;t disagree with him. It&#x27;s a childlike lack of acceptance of the world, followed by an attempt to shape the world into something they are content with, displaying childlike reactions when the world doesn&#x27;t heed to their demands. Unfortunately this behaviour supported by a community of people who also behave the same way, or at least, feeling a moral sentiment behind the actions of the other, support them believing their actions are noble.<p>If you pretend rape, race, homosexuality, transgenderism etc don&#x27;t exist by not allowing these words to be spoken, or acts and circumstances to be portrayed, you create the environment for these facts of life to rot in the mind of society.<p>It&#x27;s healthy for us to talk in society, just as it&#x27;s healthy for individuals to talk about their issues - it&#x27;s unhealthy to pretend they don&#x27;t exist.