Foreshadowing current controversies, in late October South Park created a music video entitled “Safe Space.” The short clip featured its various characters celebrating their “bully proof windows” and “troll safe doors” while thwarting the attempts of the villainous “reality” to puncture their carefully constructed comfort zones.

The irreverent comedy earns its laughs, sharply satirizing campus protests that have spread from Yale to Mizzou and to many other college campuses in the past weeks. It cleverly expresses the reaction of many Americans to the college protests: namely, that while they represent dangerously illiberal ideas and a true threat to the future of academia, their ultimate failure is their inability to prepare students to act like adults in a “reality” after graduation where college administrators will not cater to their every demand.

The problem, however, is that the weaponization of “safe spaces” to constrain and destroy those with dissenting opinions doesn’t just happen on campus. It is an under-recognized yet distressingly common event in the “real world” as well.

Read the article “‘Safe Spaces’ Aren’t Just for College: LGBTQ Political Correctness Comes to the Corporate World” on thepublicdiscourse.com.