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TherapyDogs, Coloring/Play-Doh/Scream/Snack Sessions, "CRY-INS" @ Elite Colleges


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2016 Nov 14, 8:51am   4,301 views  22 comments

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'Tolerant' educators exile Trump voters from campus: Glenn Reynolds

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/11/14/trump-liberal-college-campuses-michigan-yale-glenn-reynolds-column/93765568/

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#Safe-SpaceTriggerings

Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
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With puppies, Play-doh and coloring books, safe spaces and therapy sessions turn universities into a joke.

One of the more amusing bits of fallout from last week’s election has been the safe-space response of many colleges and universities to the election of the “wrong” candidate. But on closer examination, this response isn’t really amusing. In fact, it’s downright mean.

Trump’s substantial victory, when most progressives expected a Hillary landslide, came as a shock to many. That shock seems to have been multiplied in academe, where few people seem to know any Trump supporters — or, at least, any Trump supporters who’ll admit to it.

The response to the shock has been to turn campuses into kindergarten. The University of Michigan Law School announced a ”post-election self-care” event with “food and play,” including “coloring sheets, play dough [sic], positive card-making, Legos and bubbles with your fellow law students.” (Embarrassed by the attention, UM Law scrubbed the announcement from its website, perhaps concerned that people would wonder if its graduates would require Legos and bubbles in the event of stressful litigation.)

Stanford emailed its students and faculty that psychological counseling was available for those experiencing “uncertainty, anger, anxiety and/or fear” following the election. So did the University of Michigan’s Flint campus.

Meanwhile, even the Ivy League wasn’t immune, with Penn (Trump’s alma mater) creating a post-election safe space with puppies and coloring books:

Student Daniel Tancredi reported that the people who attended were “fearful” about the results of the election.
“For the most part, students just hung out and ate snacks and made small talk,” Tancredi told The College Fix. “Of course, that was in addition to coloring and playing with the animals.”

At Cornell, meanwhile, students held a "Cry-in."

As the event took place, students — roughly 20 or so, according to the Sun’s video — wrote their reactions and emotions on poster boards with colored markers, or with chalk on the ground. A chilly day on the Ithaca campus, at one point the demonstrators huddled together as what appeared to be a barista brought them warm drinks. Several adults, most likely professors, stood around the group. The event appeared to take on the atmosphere of a funeral wake.
Yale had a ”group scream.”

At Tufts, the university offered arts and crafts, while the University of Kansas reminded students that there were plenty of “therapy dogs” available.  At other schools, exams were cancelled and professors expressed their sympathy to traumatized students.
It’s easy to mock this as juvenile silliness — because, well, it is juvenile silliness of the sort documented in Frank Furedi’s What Happened To The University? But that’s not all it is. It’s also exactly what these schools purport to abhor:  An effort to marginalize and silence part of the university community.

In an email to students, the University of Michigan’s President, Mark Schlissel, wrote: “Our responsibility is to remain committed to education, discovery and intellectual honesty — and to diversity, equity and inclusion. We are at our best when we come together to engage respectfully across our ideological differences; to support ALL who feel marginalized, threatened or unwelcome; and to pursue knowledge and understanding.”

But when you treat an election in which the “wrong” candidate wins as a traumatic event on a par with the 9/11 attacks, calling for counseling and safe spaces, you’re implicitly saying that everyone who supported that “wrong” candidate is, well, unsafe. Despite the talk about diversity and inclusion, this is really sending the signal that people who supported Trump — and Trump carried the state of Michigan, so there are probably quite a few on campus — aren’t really included in acceptable campus culture. It’s not promoting diversity, it’s enforcing uniformity. It’s not promoting inclusion, it’s practicing exclusion.  And, though it pretends to be about nurturing, it’s actually about being mean to those who don’t fall in the nurtured class. Schlissel says he wants the University of Michigan to be “a welcoming place for all members of society,” but how welcome can students who backed Trump feel in the wake of this performance?

A viral (and profane) YouTube rant by Jonathan Pie points out that this sort of fear and “othering” of political opponents is why Trump won, and why Democrats were shocked by his victory.  Pie’s right to tell people that they should engage in discussion rather than dismissal of people they disagree with, and colleges and universities should listen to him.
If, that is, it’s not too triggering.

WHAT IS PURPOSE OF "RIGOROUS" EDUCATION?

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#HIGHEReducation

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1   MisdemeanorRebel   2016 Nov 14, 8:53am  

The SJWs are on the decline. They'll start attacking each other in frustration, the White Hipster Beta Male Orbiter "allies" first, then Black vs. White Feminists, etc. etc. etc. All that pent-up energy.

In fact it's already happening. The Dems' #1 target of rage so far, beyond the Comey distraction, is White Women:

http://www.lennyletter.com/politics/a608/dont-agonize-organize/

Those Men.

Really, the best thing would be a (Blue Collar) male strike. Shit would fall apart so quickly and we'd all get to laugh our asses off watching Masters of Non-Profit Administration try to fix broken pipes, repair electric lines, etc. If the internet lasted more than a few hours.

4   HEY YOU   2016 Nov 14, 9:08am  

Rep/Con/Teas will be holding massive crying parties when
they are all BOYCOTTED.

5   Strategist   2016 Nov 14, 9:10am  

AllTruth says

WATCH: Cornell University Holding 'Cry Ins' To 'Mourn' Trump Win

It's the end of the world. So sad.

6   AllTruth   2016 Nov 14, 9:22am  

Braden Walter uploaded the video to his Facebook and claimed a, “Trump protestor drops her pants, craps, PICKS IT UP, and then wipes it on a Trump sign. This is what were dealing with now.”

The video that has no sound shows exactly what Walter claims, except one problem. The woman is not a Trump protester.

WARNING: The video below is graphic, and may not be appropriate for all audiences!

http://thedailyhaze.com/anti-trump-protester-shit-sign/

8   8e6e0   2016 Nov 14, 9:57am  

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9   8e6e0   2016 Nov 14, 10:00am  

Liberal demonstration of Trump (based on Alltruth's post above):

www.youtube.com/embed/SMjDxcqwJdY

10   8e6e0   2016 Nov 14, 10:05am  

Ivy League students feeling triggered by Trump's victory on Tuesday are in luck: the University of Pennsylvania has a created a "breathing" space for them to do some coloring, hug a puppy, and recuperate.

UPenn's Fisher Hassenfeld College House hosted the event, according to The Statesman.

Student Daniel Tancredi reported that the people who attended were "fearful" about the results of the election.

""For the most part, students just hung out and ate snacks and made small talk," Tancredi told The College Fix. "Of course, that was in addition to coloring and playing with the animals."

Yes, there was a puppy and cat on-hand to provide therapeutic cuddling for shell-shocked students.

Administrators had also printed out sheets of paper from a coloring book. The pages contained positive messages for students to color.

http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/11/upenn-created-a-post-election-safe-space

#Triggered

#SafeSpaceNeeded

11   Shaman   2016 Nov 14, 10:44am  

Thunderlips is Tovbot2 says

Really, the best thing would be a (Blue Collar) male strike. Shit would fall apart so quickly and we'd all get to laugh our asses off watching Masters of Non-Profit Administration try to fix broken pipes, repair electric lines, etc. If the internet lasted more than a few hours.

Exactly! The same much-maligned men also make the world run for the mostly useless majority of hangers on and swindlers who all claim to stand in a morally superior position than the people who work for a living and might want to keep some of their earnings.
Don't get me wrong, those hacks and hucksters are amusing and all, but they are the parasites on America's underbelly, producing nothing much but grief for the actual producers. A lecture on morality from a bedbug isn't something anyone would tolerate. Neither should we let the useless parasites of society moralize to we, their benefactors.

12   Tenpoundbass   2016 Nov 14, 10:45am  

I'm sure there are lots of PayDoh Trumps getting his face punched in right about now.

13   🎂 georgeliberte   2016 Nov 14, 10:59am  

I did not vote for Trump, but, I must confess to enjoying the tears of SJWs and Clinton Disciples greatly, schadenfreude. What convoluted reasoning that bit$h has, she could rationalize anything. She overlooks that summarily dismissing the concerns and problems of 'those men' has become fashionable for elitist. I would have to say that the people who claim to ahve voted against hatred and violence ar acting hateful and violently- I guess it is just their privilege.

14   Dan8267   2016 Nov 14, 2:42pm  

Thunderlips is Tovbot2 says

The Dems' #1 target of rage so far, beyond the Comey distraction, is White Women:

The only way Trump could please those people is by getting a sex change.

15   Dan8267   2016 Nov 14, 2:43pm  

georgeliberte says

I did not vote for Trump, but, I must confess to enjoying the tears of SJWs and Clinton Disciples greatly, schadenfreude.

I agree

www.youtube.com/embed/f4bPeheIRD8?start=11

16   Tenpoundbass   2016 Nov 15, 8:14am  

georgeliberte says

I did not vote for Trump,

I never voted for one single person who's career he Destroyed.
I would die today a complete man if Trump put Nader in his cabinet somehow. I'm not holding my breath and he may be too old to do much by now.
The man is 82.

17   RC2006   2016 Nov 15, 8:37am  

A lot of my wifes frThunderlips is Tovbot2 says

The Dems' #1 target of rage so far, beyond the Comey distraction, is White Women:

I think my wife has been seriously red pilled by this election after seeing all the crazy posts and comments from her former professors and friends on Facebook, she even posted some uplifting quote about people getting along and got railed for it because she is a white women whose opinion doesn’t count.

18   Ceffer   2016 Nov 15, 9:18am  

Stick their heads back in their Mom's tweeties, maybe they'll feel safe there.

19   Shaman   2016 Nov 15, 9:24am  

If the election were held AGAIN tomorrow, a lot of the people who voted for Clinton or third party would switch votes to Trump after seeing the Leftists completely lose their shit and RIOT after a goddam election! In my lifetime we have never seen post election riots! This level of insanity is waking up some sleepers to the clear and present danger the media and Leftists present to the integrity (unity, wholeness, strength) of our country! They absolutely must be stopped or they WILL tear us apart, first from each other and then literally as their rabid hate consumes them.

20   fdhfoiehfeoi   2016 Nov 15, 9:41am  

I'm waiting for these colleges to take it to the next level with diapering's, and high chair time feedings.

21   Ceffer   2016 Nov 15, 9:59am  

Time for a mass campaign of rancid clam blast desensitization therapy for the special snowflakes.

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