[cm3]

Please do not call it a "safe space". I've witnessed occasions where any and all differing voiced opinion motivated people in the US to organize loud "where's my safe space" protests. I don't claim to understand how/why they feel that way, but looking from the outside, I cannot follow their reasoning. So, having that in mind, your use of "safe space" makes it sound like it'll attract many of those who don't want different opinions to be voiced.

[calibraxis]

Let's commit a small rudeness and step away from the airy theoretical.

- The US is so unsafe, you can get armed bureaucrats reaching into your ass in public and feeling your hemorrhoids. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/04/01/...)

- It's so unsafe, mobs of sociopathic videogamers can "SWAT" your family by calling a SWAT team to your house. (http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindnes...)

- It's the world's biggest jailer of its own populace; for many a police state.

So some ensure "safety" for themselves by having all the state's violence on their side of the debate. I personally get to be pretty safe. But others want a little safety too, which is a prerequisite to freely express their opinions.

To be clear: we're not talking about shutting down dissenting opinions on math. We're talking about shutting down the violence that supports one side's mediocre, backwards ideas. No wonder why some struggle to maintain that lopsided advantage.

[kwgardner]

We've actually never used the words "safe space" to describe ourselves, fwiw. It's an extremely polarizing term that has evolved to mean very different things to people, and the image it triggers in most people's minds of SJWs and crazy trigger warnings all over the place and no dissension allowed ever is not what we're trying to build. Those were the author's words.