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The safe space, Ms. Byron explained, was intended to give people who might find comments “troubling” or “triggering,” a place to recuperate. The room was equipped with cookies, coloring books, bubbles, Play-Doh, calming music, pillows, blankets and a video of frolicking puppies, as well as students and staff members trained to deal with trauma. Emma Hall, a junior, rape survivor and “sexual assault peer educator” who helped set up the room and worked in it during the debate, estimates that a couple of dozen people used it. At one point she went to the lecture hall — it was packed — but after a while, she had to return to the safe space. “I was feeling bombarded by a lot of viewpoints that really go against my dearly and closely held beliefs,” Ms. Hall said.
This was done because a speaker - herself a woman - was invited to a debate, and they thought she might question the validity of "rape culture" as a concept.
There's two very dangerous things going on here: one is the equation of 'ideas I don't agree with' with 'verbal violence', and the other is the equation of 'verbal violence' with physical violence. Come on, you've got a brain. Doesn't that worry you a bit?