‘Tolerant’ US educators exile Trump voters from campus: Official safe spaces marginalize Republicans as the ‘other’ and turn universities into a joke. By Glenn Reynolds.

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.

It’s easy to mock this as juvenile silliness … But … it’s also exactly what these schools purport to abhor:  an effort to marginalize and silence part of the university community. …

Universities are heavily into the discrimination and prejudice businesses:

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 … 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 wrote he wants the university 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?