James Miller of Frontpage Mag points out that college students should be treated like adults.

What College Safe Spaces Should Be

I would love to see the results of an experiment where black students make a deliberately preposterous demand of their college to test how their school’s white liberal administrators react. Hopefully, the administrators would either get the joke, or tell the students to grow up. But I fear that at least some administrators have so low an opinion of their minority students that they would treat the demand with outward respect.

If I say something absurd, how should you respond? If you have a poor opinion of my intelligence and think that this kind of statement is the best I can do, you might patronizingly praise me. If you think me dangerous and intolerant of criticism you might prudently pretend to agree with my absurdity. And If you dislike me and want to corrupt my thinking process, you should most definitely give me false positive feedback. But what should you do if you seek to create a safe space around me?

A safe space for intelligent adults should be one where people readily point out all of their errors of perception so they don’t accidentally hurt themselves. If I run at a wall while insisting that the entire concept of a wall is just a social construct then in a safe space you should loudly and quickly point out my mistake without worrying if your tone is disrespectful. Indeed, it would be hard for you to correct me without being disrespectful because we humans tend to interpret almost any disagreement as a disrespectful status hit.