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Irrespective of a person's political leanings, I've never really liked that phenomenon of somebody trying out the new buzzword, failing to grasp it's actual meaning and just repeating it over and over. It's like the whole "Safe Space" thing, for 8 years every Establishment talking head was calling every space, in which they don't have the power to censor the discourse, "a safe space". Those poor confused Boomers in the British Parliament got the meaning of the word so backward that they insisted on referring to every website under the sun as a "safe space for terrorists".
Like, safe spaces weren't just places where you don't get to impose your philosophy on other humans. They were actual places, in Universities, they were like nurserys, scaled up for immature adults who needed to do crayon drawings and drink juice boxes to maintain their sanity. There is no parallel between what the term originally meant and the way it's being used. Of course, there's always that tiresome bore who has to chime in with: "yeah, but language evolves", ok then, if we're just using "safe space" as a synonym for "the territory of my ideological enemies" then safe spaces are everywhere and there's nothing particularly funny about them, the humour of the word is lost, so there's no real use for it.
