Are People Who Use The Term Safe Space in a Positive Sense Exceptionally Immature?

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All right, Tim, the question for today's episode is, are people who use the term safe space as a positive term exceptionally childish?

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They are childish. So why though? I mean, safe spaces are, you know, that's something that our culture right now is really invested in.

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I mean, even, you know, even universities are providing safe spaces for their students of color to protect them from white people and, you know, whatever the white harm or white fragility or white, you know, whatever.

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So obviously you know something that even the universities don't know, so enlighten us.

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Yeah, I mean, God's wisdom makes me wiser than my adversaries, for sure. No, I mean, look, man, growing up, no one ever used this expression.

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Like this is an expression with a particular origin. So if you look up safe space on the academic source

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Wikipedia, okay? Okay. Then... The infallible

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Wikipedia. The infallible Wikipedia. It says this, right? So the term safe space refers to places intended to be free of bias, conflict, criticism, or potentially threatening actions, ideas, or conversations.

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That sounds totally reasonable. Places intended to be free of bias, conflict, criticism, or potentially threatening actions, ideas, or conversations.

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So the term originated in LGBT culture, but has since expanded to include any place where a marginalized minority, you know, example, gender, ethnic, religious, can come together to communicate regarding their shared experiences.

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So safe spaces are most commonly located on university campuses in the Western world, but are also at workplaces, as in the case of Nokia.

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But, yeah, so there you go. But you're saying that's bad. The universities are saying that's good.

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It's self -refuting. Why is it self -refuting? If you're a university, you're supposed to learn.

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Tim, I'm trying to have a serious conversation here.

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There's nothing more immature and childish than a person who can't handle differences of opinion.

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So universities are supposed to be places of learning. They're not supposed to be places where you're protected from ideas that you find particularly threatening.

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Okay? Hang on, Tim. Hang on, Tim. Having you heard the song, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will do more damage than even this.

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Isn't that how the song goes? No, that's not how it goes. Okay. So this is about as immature as you can possibly get.

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If you demand to have some sort of location that is going to be free from any and every criticism, any conflict, any bias, quote -unquote, or potentially threatening ideas or conversations, you've just left the realm of being an adult at that point.

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There's no being an adult at that point. I don't know how you even function as a normal human being living in that kind of framework.

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I mean, if you're creating a safe space free of bias, so for example, going back to the university safe space for people of color, for black people or something, to free them from the oppressive white people that might infringe on their ideas or whatever.

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Rights for reparations, yeah. Right. Aren't you then creating a space filled with bias? Well, that's why it's self -defeating at that point.

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I mean, basically what this is is you're demanding an echo chamber, essentially. Right. Demanding an echo chamber where all you're going to hear is ideas that you like and agree with.

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I mean, any adult should know that this is just not the way to do anything well in the world at all.

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So, I mean, the conflict is built into the system of God's creation in such a way that, you know, the

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Bible says as iron sharpens iron, so one believer will sharpen another. Iron sharpening iron doesn't happen when you're in an echo chamber environment.

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So, like, you know, Paul says it's necessary for divisions to be among you so that the genuine among you will be revealed.

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Now, God's created the world in such a way that conflict produces, like, careful thought and produces technology even, right?

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So, I mean, like, most of your technological innovations that happen throughout the history of the world have happened because there's problems.

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Every story that exists, like, if you want to write a good story, there's no way to write a good story that is conflict -free, okay?

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So, you're telling me there's no way to write a story around a safe space? It would be the dumbest story in the history of the world.

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Well, what if the story was like, hey, we have this safe space, but then some people who aren't welcome in our safe space come, and now there's conflict in our safe space when there should be no conflict in our safe space.

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So, then you have, like, a rising and falling action there. So, that might be a pretty good story. Until you try to imagine what it's like on the other end of the conflict narrative or whatever.

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But, you know, I mean, like, God's built the world in such a way that conflict is, like, central to doing anything well in life.

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It's central to thinking well. You know, the church, their early doctrinal formations were clarified in the presence of conflict, okay?

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Like, you can't even be a good counselor to any other person unless you've experienced significant conflict or trouble in your life, so that you know what to say to help people to get out of certain situations, right?

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So, God, you know, talks about, like, blessed be the God of all comfort who comforts us where we're in any affliction, so that we may comfort others with the same comfort with which we've been comforted in Christ.

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Like, that's just part of life. That's a lot of comfort. That's a lot of comfort, man. But it's part of life. Like, trials are a part of life.

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Trials, like, test our faith. Test our faith. They produce in us steadfastness, that we may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

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What you have is you have individuals who are trying to, like, ward off this mean, like, this divine means of having clear thought, right?

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Of having clear convictions that you communicate. And this is why, like, woke culture is such a bankrupt culture, is because they refuse to debate their ideas because they, like, what they demand is, like, shelter from those ideas.

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And so their ideas can't be held up to public scrutiny and tested in that way. Because then you're challenging me as a person.

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You're challenging me as a person. And invalidating my experience and whatever else, right? Right, and the entire act of having to explain myself is an act of patriarchal dominance that you're exerting over me, or colonialism and all that.

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And so, like, it's just nonsense. Like, this is just a very immature, childish way of dealing with life.

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I mean, part of, like, you have boys, you have girls. You teach them to grow up. And part of teaching them to grow up is to not care so much about what other people think about you.

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And to not have to have your way in every single encounter. And not have to demand that everyone does everything that you want to do.

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I mean, so it's, like, the safe space culture is essentially, like, the equivalent of a, you know, a four -year -old girl who only knows how to play with people when they follow her exact instructions about how to play, okay?

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Like, and that's not the way life works. And if you think that's the way life works and what you're going to be doing is you're going to be, like, profound.

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Like, all you can do is just get in your little ghetto, right? Get in your little ghetto with like -minded people who are going to tell you everything that you want to hear.

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You're just sheltering yourself from any, like, kind of meaningful relationships that you could ever have in life.

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Because every life, every relationship has some kind of disagreements. Has some kind of, you know, conflict.

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Has some sort of criticism. You know, and, like, the people who demand this kind of thing, they just have, like, they are emotionally stunted, childish people who are incapable of having a healthy relationship in their life.

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Right. You know, it reminds me a lot of, I was looking it up just now, Proverbs 27, 6, that says,

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Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but deceitful are the kisses of an enemy. That's right.

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Right? And so, basically, what's being stated here is the person who loves you is going to be the one who comes alongside you and says, like,

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Hey, man, you know, I love you. You're wrong. You know, and you need to know that you're wrong.

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With the specific thing, right? Let a righteous man strike me. It is a kindness. Let him rebuke me.

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It is oil for my head. Let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continuing against their evil deeds. Right.

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But then the opposite of it is, you know, the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. So, the one who's coming alongside you and just saying yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, the whole time, they don't care about you.

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Well, that's flattery. That's essentially what flattery is. Right. Yeah. And so, we're living in a very sycophantic kind of culture that demands that everyone flatter you for no reason.

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Apart from any achievement that you might have on your own, you must be agreed with, you must be affirmed, you must be validated, you must be flattered.

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Like, it's flattery with no breaks whatsoever. Right? Right. So, give me flattery or else you hate me and you're literally

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Hitler. That sounds totally reasonable. Yeah.

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So, okay. But shouldn't we want to protect people from harm, though? It's fun talking this way sometimes and just mocking it by trying to take it seriously and failing.

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So, part of the agenda here is every single word is a nonsense word that has no meaning anymore.

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Okay? So, I mean, if you want to understand how these dialogues work, you have to ask what every single one of these words mean.

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And so, like, you've just taken a word, harm, that literally, I mean, growing up, we knew what harm was.

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Okay? Yeah, it was violent words, of course. So, what we've done is, like, you've just used a word now in the minds of many people.

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They really cannot differentiate between saying, I disagree with you and saying, welcome to the gas chamber over here.

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Right? Like, I want to literally put you in a gas chamber and kill you. So, like, they have no way of distinguishing between those two very different moral actions.

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So, everything is, like, protecting people from harm. But I don't protect my kids from, like, the mildest threat of harms.

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My sons, you know, I have an 11 -year -old son and I have a 9 -year -old son.

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And they somehow found their way on top of my shed in the backyard. And they were on top of the shed and they were looking at me and I just got home from work.

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And they're like, oh, good. Can you help us down? I was like, I'm not helping you down. Like, what do you mean you're not helping me?

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Oh, good. Get us out of this. I'm like, what do you mean? We're scared.

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I said, well, you better get unscared. You know, you're going to get down. But it's really far down.

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It's like, it's not that far. You know, what's the worst that can happen? Go ahead and just fall, you know, just hang off of there and fall, you know, and see what happens.

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You know, and it was fine. You know, I knew that they wouldn't die. But, you know, I didn't have some vested interest in protecting them from all the dangers that there are in life and all the possibilities of danger.

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I mean, like they had a wasp upstairs in their room. And they're like, can you go kill the wasp? I'm like, I'm not killing the wasp.

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You go kill the wasp. You know? They're like, well, what are we going to do? I said, you go figure it out.

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Don't come down until you kill the wasp. It's just a wasp. They're like, but what if it stings us? It's like, I don't care if it stings you.

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You know? So they went upstairs, and they came up with a plan, and they got the wasp.

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They killed it. Mission accomplished. Yeah. But, I mean, like, my goodness. If you're trying to protect people from every danger, particularly boys, you don't protect them from every danger in life.

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You tell them you have courage. You face your fears. And if I know you can do something that you're too scared to do,

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I'm going to make you do it. Right. I feel like as a parent, I have a moral obligation that my kids are too scared to do something to make them do it.

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And you know what? Like, that teaches them to be the kind of men that one day might be able to defend us from invading enemies.

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Right. But right now, I mean, like, can you imagine how, like, what would happen if we got attacked by a country, and we had to draft all these snowflakes?

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Can you imagine? They can't even handle, like, scary words. What do you think they're going to do when they're in a real tough situation?

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Yeah. And I see this all the time on Twitter. You know, it's just, like, people are just, like, they just have lost their mind.

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Like, we are in trouble, man. We're ready for conquest. I hope that the Chinese people and the Russians aren't hearing this. Because they, but they should know, like, we're just such, we're such wimps, man.

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We're in trouble. Well, I mean, if we ever wanted to defeat those guys, we could just, you know, type up some mean tweets, and that ought to subdue them.

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I mean, if we just say something like, you know, hey, men can't be women, that's sure to defeat

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China. Silence is violence, yeah. I mean, come on. That's foolproof. I don't know what else will stop them, if that won't stop them.

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The mean names and the mean, yeah, that's all going to do it, man. So, final verdict, safe space.

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You're a child, if you actually think that we need these things. You're a baby. You need to grow up, man.

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But, I mean, on a serious note, we do have some responsibility to train up the next generation.

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And, like, you get what you subsidize, man. So, like, with this kind of thing, like, you just, like, we, like, the

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Bible says, be strong. You know, be courageous. Act like men. Strength and courage are the providence of men.

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And we're raising a generation of men who have never had dads come along and make them do hard things. And they have a bunch of moms trying to protect them from all the dangerous, mean stuff out there in the world.

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And, you know, that's what happens when you don't have, like, when you have all these broken homes. And you don't have, like, men being men.

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You get a bunch of wimps that are not able to face just normal, everyday life.

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And it's not just the women, you know. It's the men out there who are just, like, when someone says something mean to them, they lay on their floor and suck their thumb, essentially, and pry themselves to sleep.

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And that's just a recipe for disaster. If you would like to be

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