My read of "safety" is that the proponents of "safety" consider "safe" to be their having a monopoly on control and keeping control out of the hands of those they disapprove of.

I don't think whatever ideology happens to be fashionable at the moment, be it ahistorical portraits or whatever else, is remotely relevant compared to who has the power and whom it is exercised on. The "safety" proponents very clearly get that.