Many towns and cities have created safe spaces that small lost children can go to in an emergency. Now many colleges and universities insist upon the same sort of thing for there students almost all of whom are much older. However this space isn't meant to protect from physical danger but rather from, apparently, mental contamination. The problem with this sort of safe space is it doesn't protect them and in fact stunts their intellectual growth, by sealing them off into ever narrower boxes and making them ever less able to defend their ideas and those they've been taught with any degree at all of intellectual rigor. Thus we begin to see stunted specimens like Occassio Cortez move into public life. People whose only defense for their ideas is to call their critics some pejorative or the other usually ending in 'ist'. The question then becomes, "Why are leftists so bound and determined to intellectually cripple those who would follow in their foot steps? Is it because they, themselves, believe their ideas intellectually suspect? And therefore do not want them challenged? Note facebook, Twitter et al are now creating their own internet safe spaces and if course the result is that other platforms are starting to fire up in response, the first being called Parlour supposedly open for business on the thirteenth. Now another question is this really what you want from social media platforms? The proliferation of ever more ways to avoid having to sit down and actually discuss with our friends and family ideas based on the merits of a given proposition based on its methodology rather than how you feel about the goals you wish to achieve. Note we may all feel the same way about a given goal but have very different ideas about how best to achieve them.
"Thus we begin to see stunted specimens like Occassio Cortez move into public life. People whose only defense for their ideas is to call their critics some pejorative or the other usually ending in 'ist'." Like "commun" or "social"... I'm also sure there are some right leaning politicians who have defended their ideas by calling their critics some pejorative. One in particular comes to mind.
Nope like fascist or racist. And there is a hell of lot more to it than that. If one espouses socialist ideas why should another not call one a socialist? On the other hand calling one a fascist or racist because he or she happens to disagree with your suggested solution to a given problem without having suggested a solution that suggested either is merely dodging the question.
