University campuses are full of safe spaces that don’t advertise themselves as such. When such groups assemble in this room or that, what are they creating but safe spaces? These safe spaces are everywhere. It is possible that safe spaces — where we don’t have to explain ourselves, where we aren’t too careful — are particularly necessary in America. And yet the proliferation of safe spaces, so often marked by segregation, suggests that integration may not be as easy as we think.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 21, 2017 12:00 UTC