[Noisebridge-discuss] Safe Space

[Christoph Maier]

On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 9:33 AM Sparr <sparr0 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> There have been long discussions about what a "safe space" is. People have been asked to leave and otherwise ostracized for wanting to have those discussions.
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> In my experience, the people calling for such a space are usually using it to mean "a space where everyone is protected from being made uncomfortable, except due to ejection for the purpose of making someone else less uncomfortable", which has many undesirable side effects not least of which is giving preference to whoever announces their discomfort first/loudest.

It's been quite a while since I've last been at noisebridge:
https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Noisebridge&oldid=8367
and, for better or worse, Aestetix "removed a lame attempt at trolling"
https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Noisebridge&type=revision&diff=8381&oldid=8367

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> On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 12:21 AM Christoph Maier <cm.hardware.software.elsewhere at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> A safe space, per definitionem, is a space where one is
>> safe from more or less random, or even vindictively directed,
>> accusations like
>> "someone who shall remain anonymous to protect their privacy feels
>> uncomfortable, so you need to leave immediately".
>>
>> Happy New Year from Mitch Altman's place in Berlin.
>> Christoph
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