No Safe Spaces

"No Safe Spaces" makes the case for why it's actually healthy, if not essential, to be exposed to ideas you disagree with and even violently don't like; it toughens the muscles, preparing you for the rigors of the world.

Ironically, for a film dealing with freedom of speech, one side seems to be doing all the talking.

It argues for common sense and values while railing against dogma. But what is one person's dogma except someone else's common sense and values?

This isn't an argument for free speech, it's just paranoid whining, complete with a roundtable of comics sympathetically agreeing how sad and scary this all is, plus images of the Statue of Liberty with tape over its mouth.

No Safe Spaces provides an intermittently amusing and chilling reminder that the 1st Amendment rests on precarious footing and that our civics education has gone to hell. But I'm not entirely persuaded that America is in as much danger as it claims.

For a film that repeatedly stresses the importance of free speech, No Safe Spaces never really makes clear why listening to Dennis Prager adds any value to one's life.

No Safe Spaces isn't designed to engender debate or honestly engage the very real problem it purports to investigate. It's self-serving and obvious.

If the Left does not want "common sense" to become an exclusively conservative epithet, it ought to heed the lessons of this rangy tour of today's free-speech wars.

While somewhat loose and undisciplined in its structure, the film builds a case that academia is the primary battleground in a war to eliminate ideological diversity in the United States.

Two smug, smirking jerks having a conservative "free speech" circle smirk