[pjc50]

"Today we're going to discuss whether people like you should be allowed to exist. If you get upset, that's your problem"?

(You have not explained what you mean by safe space and why you want your book club to be unsafe)

[dang]

Would you please follow the site guidelines when posting here? They include: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html