Essay On Safe Spaces

Constitutionally, our right to free speech is not being taken away from us; socially it is not either. We have come to a point in our society where minorities are no longer voiceless. They speak up against racist and oppressive words that should no longer be spoken. Small minorities have never had that free right before. For decades, rude and hurtful slander has suppressed groups of minorities without any consideration to their humanity. Times are changing; minorities have identified that these words and phrases damage them emotionally. With safe spaces being created across the nation, oppressive ideologies have been slowly disappearing.
Young children hear racial stereotypes and it becomes ingrained into their adolescent brains. Children become to think that they are the stereotypes, growing up their whole lives thinking that
“Run and hide. Run and hide. We have to get to the safe space, before the rhetorical bombs start falling,” Mark Steyn said on Censored in America. Safe spaces first started in the 1960’s when people of the LGBT community were persecuted for their sexual orientation. In the 1970’s, safe spaces evolved to fit with the feminist movement. Many of these safe spaces were not physical locations, but a sense of community for women . Safe spaces have developed into places with gender-neutral bathrooms, asking people for their preferred pronouns, trigger warnings, and oppression free zones. With evolution of safe spaces, they have remained active decades. Noticeably, safe spaces are not as safe as the creators want the areas to be. Leaders of safe spaces cannot create a utopian area that all will agree in; the oppressive ideas ingrained into our brains will always be there. Safe spaces are not created to destroy freedom of speech. Safe spaces simply bring people together with the same ideologies and need of protection from persecuting