SJW - What would be a good literal name for them?

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Well, the general idea seems to be to have the University apply its authortity to enforce it. No goverment involvement required. And to be clear, I don't mind or care about their forming various interest groups focusing on racial issues, I'm more concerned by the demands for "safe space. 0_equals_true is more versed in the nitty gritty of that concept, but the bottom line is that it's bunk. To quote a Richard Dawkins tweet: "A university is not a "safe space". If you need a safe space, leave, go home, hug your teddy & suck your thumb until ready for university.". When I talk about segregation, I'm talking about the demands, at for instance NYU, to have one entire floor of a huge mixed-use building basically have a "blacks-only" sign on the door, and another floor with a "queer-only" sign.

The phrase "safe space" is perhaps overused, but it is a legitimate concept in higher education. Certainly, I support the idea that college should generally be a place where one is confronted with challenging and contradictory ideas and speakers. But it's also a perfectly fine technique to define a safe space for a specific purpose. For instance, it would be counterproductive for women discussing body image issues to have a bunch of frat boys there sniggering about fat girls.

I don't really think it is, and I think it's gained percieved legitimacy simply from repetition and overuse. From what I understand, "safe space" was originally an idea used in the treatment of PTSD (joke about Melody Hensley goes here), but has, from what I hear, been demonstrated to be potentially counterproductive in that context, as well.

And sure, you can have a "womens support group" or similar, with scheduled meetups in specific locales at specific times, and I wouldn't really mind something like that being women-only. But setting up a a permanent "womens-floor" or "womens-building" (womens dorms and bathrooms notwithstanding, naturally) with the motivation that maybe they want to talk about their periods doesn't seem quite kosher unless there's an equivalent for men. Or replace men/women with blacks/whites/hispanics/asians/etc or any given combination of LGBTQ people. And to have such a thing not merely being suggested or asked for, but demanded, smacks of rather spectacular entitlement.


And what of the marginalised people who won't be kept safe in a "safe space" divided along those lines? Maybe a black guy is harassing a black girl. A black-only safe space won't help then. Maybe a queer woman is stalking another woman. Women-only safe space isn't safe then. Should we divide people up by hair colour? "Gingers have no souls", "blondes are stupid" etc. That's hurtful, better make ginger-only and blonde-only floor. How many floors do we have to give out? Better make floor for aspies, left-handeds and people with glasses. Are we begining to see the problems with the idea, yet?

(sorry if my tone is getting a bit agitated, I'm nose deep in my wine glass)

I'm sure we'll soon get to hear about the newspeak definition of "racism", the one that says only white people can be racists, while everyone else is just "biased".

Constantly Offended Crybullies

You know, getting back to what differentiates SJWs from garden variety liberals, I forgot offense seeking behavior, i.e. looking for reasons to get offended, as being offended is the source of their power.

Triggade (trigger & brigade)

It's legitimate to want a 'safe space' on campus, like the old Black Student Union or the Women's resource building, but it's not legitimate to want the entire university to be a safe space. The entire point of university is a death match of memes.