An Iowa lawmaker is looking to slash funding for public colleges spending money on grief counseling and other kid-glove treatment for students upset over last week's presidential election results -- telling snowflakes everywhere: "Suck it up, buttercup."
Since Donald Trump's upset victory last Tuesday, colleges across the country have brought in therapy dogs, canceled exams and held "cry-ins" on campus.
But Republican state Rep. Bobby Kaufmann says he will introduce a "suck it up, buttercup" bill in January when the Iowa State Legislature resumes, in a bid to fight back against campus coddling.
The bill would hit taxpayer-funded state universities with a budget cut for double the amount they spend on such election-related activities. Kaufmann emphasized that existing therapy and mental health services are not being targeted.
"I saw schools with rising, skyrocketing tuition costs where they are also finding money and expenditures for things such as cry rooms. I heard reports of rooms where you can play with Play-Doh, where you can color on books and talk about your feelings, and I was hearing reports of some schools that were bringing in ponies to be able get students through the election," he told "Fox & Friends" on Wednesday.
After receiving hundreds of emails of support from across the country, Kaufmann also has set up a website where supporters can "Adopt a Trump protester" and get a "suck it up, buttercup" hat for $17.76. He says he hopes other states pursue similar legislation.
"I believe I'm the first," he told FoxNews.com, when asked if other lawmakers were following his example. "I wanted to fire a political warning shot."
The kind of creative counseling that concerns him extends well beyond Iowa campuses. Kaufmann isn't the only one worried about the post-election feel-gooderies either.
The University of Michigan law school canceled a "Post-Election Self-Care with Food and Play" event this week after inevitable Internet ridicule. The event offered students the chance to work out their Trump anxiety with "stress-busting self-care activities" including coloring, blowing bubbles, sculpting with Play-Doh and "positive card making."
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - San Francisco's public schools have been offered a classroom lesson plan that calls President-elect Donald Trump a racist, sexist man who became president "by pandering to a huge racist and sexist base."
The union that represents city teachers posted the plan on its website and distributed it via an email newsletter to its more than 6,000 members. The school district has more than 57,000 students.
It is unclear how many teachers have used the plan outlined by a Mission High School teacher, but it appears to have the tacit support of city education officials.
School district spokeswoman Gentle Blythe said the plan is optional and not part of the official curriculum.
"Educators are entrusted to create lessons that reflect the California standards, support students' social and emotional well-being and foster inclusive and safe school communities," she said in a statement that neither praised nor rebuked the lesson plan. San Francisco schools serve diverse populations and teachers are encouraged to include multiple perspectives in lessons, she said.
The Republican Party in San Francisco reacted sharply.
"It's inappropriate on every level," said Harmeet Dhillon, an RNC committeewoman from California. She called it "inappropriate propaganda that unfairly demonizes not only the campaign that Donald Trump, the winner, ran, but also all of the people who voted for him."
The lesson plan was written by social studies teacher Fakhra Shah, who said she hadn't planned for it to spread citywide - that was a step taken by the teacher's union. She wrote it at 2 a.m. Nov. 9, just hours after results came in, to help teachers at her school struggling with how to answer
students' questions and concerns about Trump becoming president.
"I think a lot of people were lost for words, wondering, 'What do we say? What do we do?' " said Shah, whose Latino, African American, white, Muslim and LGBTQ students are worried about a surge in hate crimes since the election.
"We're calling him out," she said. "If he's our president, I have the right to hold him accountable and ask him to take a stance that is anti-hate and anti-racist."
The plan encourages teachers to let students express their concerns and to offer them hope and tell students that they can keep fighting. "We can uplift ourselves (and) fight oppression here at school even if we cannot control the rest of the country," she said.
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Fraternity ousts 2 students who waved Trump flag at college
WELLESLEY, Mass. - A fraternity has ousted two Massachusetts college students accused of driving through Hillary Clinton's alma mater and waving a Donald Trump flag hours after she conceded the presidential race.
The Boston Globe reports that Sigma Phi Epsilon's national chapter kicked the Babson College students out of the fraternity after they drove through nearby Wellesley College with the Trump flag on Wednesday. The Democrat Clinton lost to the Republican Trump in Tuesday's election.
Babson College confirms two of its students waved the Trump flag at Wellesley but hasn't said who they are. It says they may be disciplined.
Wave of Fake 'Hate Crimes' Sweeps anti-Trump Social Media
Fake reports of "hate crimes" committed by fans of President-elect Donald Trump are sweeping the nation. Meanwhile, real crimes continue to be committed by anti-Trump rioters in dozens of cities across America.
One fake "hate crime" involved a Muslim woman at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette who claimed that she had her hijab torn off by two white males. Lafayette police now report that she "admitted that she fabricated the story."
Other incidents are being reported as "crimes" that are not crimes at all. CNN published a list of "hate crimes" on Saturday that includes an incident where a group of middle school students chanted "Build the wall!" in a cafeteria.
That is not a "crime"; it is juvenile behavior by boorish 12- and 13-year-olds.
Another "crime" on CNN's list comes from a university where "somebody chalked the words 'Trump,' 'Build wall' and '[Expletive deleted] your safe space' in front of the library.
That's right: they used actual chalk.
Other than that, there's not much. Elizabeth Nolan Brown of Reason.com has posted a more extensive list of cases where police were unable to verify the allegations being made, including an alleged attack on a gay man in Santa Monica, California.
Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) documented three men showing up at a Veterans Day parade with Confederate flags. Provocative? Deliberately. Offensive? Yes, to most. Hate crime? No.
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