Can we just...not cry about e-microaggressions like salty children?

Safe spaces exist. They are a discrete thing on some college campuses, and pretty strange. When you deploy that term in this context, it loses its meaning. You are attempting to rebrand the term in a disparaging manner to load the discussion in your favor. It doesn't work with people who see through high school rhetorical tactics.

High school rhetorical tactics? What are you talking about? People are literally asking for a safe space where anyone who hurts their feelings will be hurt. What about that is meaningless?

Yes, people talk trash in real life. If they do so where it is not permitted or welcome - such as the overwhelming majority of social contexts - they face consequences. You wanted to be treated like a special snowflake and transform an environment where it is not welcome and permitted into one where it is.

First of all, the social consequences you face in person aren't always banishment.

Second of all, I don't believe the overwhelming majority of competitive contexts would banish trash talkers.

Third, you are again using this cute rhetorical trick where you try to use the terms I'm using to accuse me of hypocrisy. I'm not acting like a special snowflake because I'm not asking for other people to be banned based on my feelings. The whole point of calling someone a special snowflake is that you are saying they falsely think they are special in some way, and often that they are fragile. That's why special snowflake applies people who want to impose their own taste in banter on others via bans are special snowflakes. They think their standard is the correct one, and that words in a video game are super consequential.

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