This is an old news article I just came across, but it harkens back to what I said earlier about elite colleges: after Trump's win, several Ivy League schools and other highly accredited universities decided it was a good idea to soothe their disappointed liberal students
by giving them play dough, coloring books, legos, bubbles, and healing spaces with puppies.I just... what is there to say to this? Like, I get how people felt that night. I felt terrible. I couldn't sleep. I needed to take a couple hits off the bong to prevent myself from vomiting. The days and weeks that followed were extremely unnerving for me because of Trump's win on top of all the other sht I've been dealing with in my life for a very long time. But these colleges did exactly what the schools in my hometown did after a madman had barged into an elementary school and massacred twenty children. A
massacre. Not an election gone bad. And yeah, obviously conservatives like insulating themselves in their own bubbles - people of every ideological persuasion do that to some extent. But this kind of stuff is just not normal, even for liberal college students: students whose predecessors took to the streets when they were being drafted to fight an unjust war and when Jim Crowe was the law of the land in part of this country.
I'm really trying not to generalize because obviously there has been activism over the last month that has been positive and civil, but there's clearly something wrong when highly respected universities are literally treating their students like infants. There are future lawyers at these schools being encouraged
not to engage with people on the other side of an issue. Does it really have to be explained why that is a fundamentally bad idea and why it's counterproductive to the goal of having an informed electorate, not to mention the complete opposite of what liberalism is supposed to represent?
