Safe Spaces Endanger Minds

Ironically, the curtailment of free speech continues to be pushed by those who have never known life without it.

The safe space—“a place or environment in which a person or category of people can feel confident that they will not be exposed to discrimination, criticism, harassment, or any other emotional or physical harm,” according to the Oxford Dictionary—arose out of a perceived need for designated places in which marginalized groups could feel permitted to exp…