Emob78: ... Safe spaces turn human beings into mind controlled drones. It's actually a hilarious process to watch people go from self-aware, mature adults into cowering bovines ...
Funny thing, I see it as quite opposite.
In my opinion, self-awareness cannot be lost. But most people never reach the point of self-awareness when they really FORGIVE the world that it doesn't revolve around them and that it also isn't the just place in the straightforward, simple way of fairy-tales. Many people didn't even accept it, but they still have to deal with it somehow (that is also why we - as human beings - care so much about fictious stories and characters, the world "as-is" isn't good enough for us). The default way is to embrace some ideology that give some sense of purpose to the life and some order to the world. So far so good.
And then they find ideology that teach:
1) Every time you feel something is hurting you, it is grave injustice that must be addressed by the whole society
and
2) the only thing
you have to do then is crying loudly "you are mean to me!" until it stops.
And so far, it seems to work! Then it is hard to resist the urge to join. Political correctness is the symptom rather than the cause.
By the way, boring and mediocre isn't the worst possible outcome. My vision of "Brave new world by SJW" is full of deeply neurotic people who are perpetually enraged by the abuses others could commit on them and in the same time anxious about the abuses they could commit on the others.
Easily manipulated all right, but more in a "so agitated they cannot think straight" than "so brainwashed they cannot think at all" way.