# The Play-Doh Solution **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 16, 2016, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-play-doh-solution/772149 "2016-11-16T11:18:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-play-doh-solution/772149/1 "2016-11-16T11:18:53Z")
Apologies if this indicated the 2067th ‘in the great tradition of’ Robert Ludlum, or 97th Tom Clancy. Of all the groups most at risk from this election, just after young women, but before muslims, Students are hit hardest. Fortunately they are capable of tough self-help and resilient enough to fight back through inexpensive therapy in the greatest frontier, can-do, spirit that saw America through the birth of a nation and endless, endless, wars. “Leaders at their Best: Resiliency, Self-Compassion, and Play.” _Would you like to be happy, hopeful, and empowered? Join us for exciting, fun activities that will help develop resiliency and strength-based coping through self-compassion, active gratitude, and play. Participate and win exciting rewards!_ Cornell held a Cry-In, Yale a Group-Scream, Pennsylvania made a Safe Space with puppies and coloring books, Kansas loaned out therapy dogs,; but Michigan’s Post-Election Self-Care event seems the most effective at dealing with trauma and promising for everyone else. _“food" and "play,” including “coloring sheets, play dough (sic), positive card-making, Legos and bubbles with your fellow law students.”_ For whilst this is, rightfully, healing the best and brightest, why should the rest of the country be denied the means of recovery offered to the future leaders of tomorrow? Do we not suffer? Do we not bleed? Where’s our playdoh? > **['Tolerant' educators exile Trump voters from campus: Glenn Reynolds](https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/11/14/trump-liberal-college-campuses-michigan-yale-glenn-reynolds-column/93765568/)** > > Official safe spaces marginalize Republicans as the 'other' and turn universities into a joke. > **[UMich law school scrubs post-Trump Play-Doh and coloring event from website |...](https://www.thecollegefix.com/umich-law-school-scrubs-post-trump-play-doh-coloring-event-website/)** > > Also scrubbed: a previously scheduled 'self-compassion and play' event hosted by same school psychologist. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-play-doh-solution/772149/2 "2016-11-16T11:39:40Z")
The right-wing outrage at teenagers acting like teenagers continues apace. WHERE WILL IT END ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-play-doh-solution/772149/3 "2016-11-16T12:53:19Z")
Silly brats. Everyone knows that when an election doesn’t go your way, you stockpile guns and ammunition, convert all your assets to gold and start doing drills in the woods so you’re ready for the impending FEMA/United Nations-sponsored Godless One-World Invasion and Race War. ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-play-doh-solution/772149/4 "2016-11-16T13:09:54Z")
More more more participation trophies for kids are the answer; they can serve to accelerate the rate of suicides of millenial weaklings like this who don’t excel at anything so there will be fewer of them on campus. And I’m sure decent mental health professionals like Keith Ablow get tired having so many of these helicopter children as clients for 10 years who never learn. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-play-doh-solution/772149/5 "2016-11-16T14:50:23Z")
There are decent mental health professionals who are like Keith Ablow? They must be very conflicted. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-play-doh-solution/772149/6 "2016-11-16T16:16:34Z")
Another take on it: [Political correctness fatigue](http://amarillo.com/news/latest-news/2016-11-15/beilue-political-correctness-fatigue-was-one-reason-trump-won) > [@](#): > > The one-year anniversary passed last week, swallowed up by the election, but, in its own way, connected to the surprising outcome. > > In November 2015, a protest was in full swing at the University of Missouri. Jonathan Butler, a student, was in the middle of a hunger strike, threatening not to eat until the UM president was removed as he was deemed ineffective in dealing with on-campus racial strife. > > An outdoor safe space, where Butler encamped, was created on public campus property by growing supporters of his 11-person group, Concerned Student 1950. Some faculty joined in, with some threatening those not sympathetic with the cause. > > The Tigers football team threatened a boycott until Butler ate, which meant he was satisfied with the progress of his hunger strike. President Tim Wolfe and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin did resign, but over what? > > The claims were found as either lies or gross exaggerations. There was a swastika made of human feces which indicated more mental illness of one student than racism. The racial taunts were one incident from one or more townies, not even students at a great university known for diversity. > > The student body president claimed the KKK was on campus, a statement he later retracted. But the damage was done. > > The one-year backlash: An 8 percent overall enrollment drop, and 25 percent — some 1,500 freshman students — less than the year before. Do the math on what that means as far as lost tuition and fees, but $40 million is a good place to start. Donations are down too. > > There’s a mandated hiring freeze, a 5 percent cut in the university budget, projecting a $32 million shortfall — all because of some exaggerated claims and fake hand-wringing. > [@](#): > > \*\*Translation: Many people are fed up. They are tired of tip-toeing around political correctness and being labeled by false narratives and attention-seekers. \*\* > [@](#): > > Over the weekend, Southern Methodist University officials in Dallas apologized and re-issued an invitation after a university employee canceled an “honorary serve” ceremony at an SMU volleyball game for Victoria Smith, daughter of Mike Smith, one of five Dallas officers murdered in July. > > Heidi Smith, the mother, received an email Thursday canceling the ceremony, “in light of recent events and diversity within the SMU community.” The email went on to say, “The demonstration could be deemed insensitive.” > > Smith put the email on Facebook without comment, and SMU was blistered for it. Hmm, what “recent events” could that be? How much over-the-top drama can one age group have? > > This doesn’t include Emory University in Atlanta investigating in March a students’ claims of “frustration, pain and fear.” The crime? Someone wrote “Vote Trump” on a sidewalk in chalk. > > And earlier this year, the Bias Response Group at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania labeled the writing on two occasions on a classroom whiteboard of “Make America Great Again” as “racialized targeted attacks.” > > And just because, University of Florida also offered counseling for those offended by Halloween costumes.