<i>A &quot;safe space&quot; is a place where you know you aren&#x27;t going to be singled out and harmed (verbally or physically) by someone telling you that you&#x27;re a queer faggot and deserve to die.</i><p>FWIW, this concept of safe space isn&#x27;t quite what I had in mind.  I think, perhaps, what I failed to articulate is that the safe space concept that grinds my gears is the kind that is an expectation carried around by people who really do just want to shut other up.  Professor said something they didn&#x27;t like? &quot;Waaah...this classroom isn&#x27;t a safe space&quot;.  Group-I&#x27;m-not-a-part-of says something they don&#x27;t like?  &quot;Waaah...they&#x27;re making my school a not-safe place&quot;.<p>I have no problem with the idea of a physically-located place with heightened expectations of civility.