THE Safe Space is spreading.
Like a B-movie blob, it is rolling off university campuses and into society.
It is swallowing up more and more areas of public life, turning them into student-style zones in which certain ideas must never be expressed in case snowflakes feel offended.
Just this week, Manchester University’s student union banned clapping on the basis that it is bad for people with “sensory issues”.
Students who want to show their approval of a speech or lecture will have to do “jazz hands” — raise their hands and wave them silently.
It is typical of the Safe Space mentality, one of those cranky ideas pushed by the authoritarian millennials who run student affairs.
Across the country, student unions have set up Safe Spaces in which students can take refuge from ideas, speakers or even fancy dress parties they find offensive.
Safe Spaces are basically kindergartens for grown-ups where students can hide from such stressful things as difficult debate and people with different opinions.
Now they have burst into the real world. Even the Labour Party has Safe Spaces.
Last week, at the Labour conference in Liverpool, the broadcaster Julia Hartley-Brewer found a room that said “Safe Space” on the door.
She tweeted a joke video from in there and all hell broke loose. Because in the eyes of the humourless PC blob, there is no greater speechcrime than to mock Safe Spaces.
Labour tweeters said the Safe Space was for people with autism and mental-health issues and therefore Hartley-Brewer was mocking the disabled.
This is utterly disingenuous, as she explains below.
The sign on the door said the space was for “anyone”.
And everyone knows that at universities, where these bunkers for the fragile first took off, Safe Spaces have nothing to do with helping disabled people and everything to do with allowing entitled youths to dodge difficult discussion.
Labour has decided to ban Julia from next year’s conference.
You have been warned, citizens: No mockery of Labour or its zany, student-like ideas will be tolerated in the Corbyn Era.
This bizarre, illiberal reprimanding of a journalist for making fun of a conference room tells us something important about Labour.
It confirms the party is morphing into a potty student union that increasingly resembles lefty campus authoritarians who are so allergic to freedom of speech.
The ideology of the Safe Space has had a dire impact on university life.
It has curbed open discussion, trampled on critical thinking and encouraged students to view themselves as fragile creatures likely to be “triggered” by certain ideas.
In 2016, an Edinburgh University student was accused of “violating Safe Space rules” after she merely raised her hand at a union meeting. King’s College London even has Safe Space Mar-who attend debates to ensure no students have their feelings hurt.
English undergraduates at Cambridge were warned that Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors would involve discussions of “sexual violence”.
Archaeology students at University College London were told they could leave lectures if they found pictures of bones “distressing”.
Fancy dress parties have been banned because wearing costumes from other cultures is “cultural appropriation”.
Critics of Islam have been shouted down on the grounds they are “Islamophobic” and could make Muslim students feel “unsafe”.
So we should be worried that Labour likes Safe Spaces. Labour increasingly resembles a Stalinist student union.
Labour MP Dawn Butler recently kicked up a storm about Jamie Oliver’s “cultural appropriation” of jerk chicken.
There has been a campaign to expel “transphobic” feminists from the party, echoing student unions’ No Platform policies.
And now there is the Safe Space. The party has clearly embraced PC authoritarianism.
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Witness Jeremy Corbyn’s denunciation of the Press at last week’s conference, and his promise to help build new media outlets if he gets into power — that is government-funded media outlets that would say all the “right” things about Corbynism.
All of Britain would become a Safe Space under Labour. We would find ourselves in a world in which open debate is frowned upon, jokes punished and disagreeable thinkers No Platformed.
No thanks. It is bad enough that campuses have fallen to the PC police, we cannot let the nation fall too.
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