<i>The concept of safe space is nothing new, people usually call it home or club.</i><p>I was going to jump in and say this. Basically everyone has a &quot;safe space&quot; that they go to every day, but students often don&#x27;t, especially the freshmen in residence randomly assigned roommates.<p>To designate a space on campus where students can go where their ideology will be respected no matter what just compensates for the fact they don&#x27;t have a home that they can kick people out of.<p>The problem is that the safe space attitude spreads to the rest of the campus, which isn&#x27;t OK, but it happens because of faculty attitudes and risk of litigation, and it would happen even if no designated safe spaces existed.<p>The way I see it, designating a safe space is a good way for universities to keep dogma out of classrooms.