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Is Your Kid a Weirdo?
The Other McCain ^ | November 21, 2015 | Robert S. McCain

Posted on 11/24/2015 8:29:55 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

America is in the grip of a crisis, namely a shortage of normal people. Evidence indicates that the population of kooks and freaks is rapidly increasing, and there are simply not enough sane people to keep the weirdos under control. Especially among the under-30 demographic, the United States is struggling to cope with the proliferation of dangerous perverts, drug addicts, psychotics and Ivy League liberal arts majors:

A student at Columbia University is urging the school to inject more diversity into its required courses, claiming she suffered severe emotional trauma from reading too many books by and about white people. Columbia students and faculty gathered Wednesday night for a panel discussion on “Race, Ethnicity, and University Life.” . . .

One of the panelists at the event was black Columbia student Nissy Aya. Aya was supposed to graduate in 2014, but instead is only on track to receive her degree in 2016. That, Aya says, demonstrates “how hard it has been for me to get through this institution” . . .

Aya attributed some of her academic troubles to the trauma of having to take Columbia’s current Core Curriculum, which requires students to take a series of six classes with a focus on the culture and history of Western, European civilization. . . .

“It’s traumatizing to sit in Core classes,” she said. “We are looking at history through the lens of these powerful, white men. I have no power or agency as a black woman, so where do I fit in?”

If you can afford to attend Columbia University (annual tuition $51,008), you are not an oppressed victim of society. A student at an elite university who believes she is being “traumatized” by the curriculum is delusional — she is demented, deranged, mad, zany, wacky, off her rocker....

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To: Gen.Blather

Excellent response and I have to agree based on my kids and their friends. Hard working, striving to succeed, getting good educations. Now if only my oldest would come to grips with the reality of “progressives” and how they would destroy everything we hold dear. But she is extremely hard working and always complains about slackers. Too bad she doesn’t yet understand progressives reward and encourage slackers.


61 posted on 11/24/2015 9:38:33 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: posterchild
Brilliant! I am going to use that tactic the next time I have to hire someone.

I think some kids are less secure than maybe the kids in older generations, but then again they have cause to be. Look at the divorce and never married rate amongst their parents.

I think the older one gets the more we seem to gloss over the weirdness that our own generation had at the same age.

College kids always think they have re-invented the wheel and most of us wonder why we ever taught the little monsters to talk.

10 years from now these millenials will have their own little delicate flowers to deal with and we can all have a good laugh.

As they say "Lighten up Francis".

62 posted on 11/24/2015 9:39:14 AM PST by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Nissy Aya. Aya was supposed to graduate in 2014, but instead is only on track to receive her degree in 2016. That, Aya says, demonstrates “how hard it has been for me to get through this institution”

What Nissy wants are easier classes so she can succeed. How about these:

-- Black rule and resurgent African economic development

-- The Congo - The Silicon Valley of Africa

-- How Somalia revolutionized chip manufacturing

-- Safe, prosperous and vibrant cities: A history of Democrat city governance

-- How welfare has fostered self reliance and personal responsibility in America

Nissy should be able to work through the course material for the classes above in about 30 minutes and graduate.

63 posted on 11/24/2015 9:41:33 AM PST by Senator_Blutarski
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To: Axeslinger

That’s the one. Her hair is pink now.


64 posted on 11/24/2015 9:45:38 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: AppyPappy; Mears

Sorry to learn of your younger relatives seeking to do the Bernie for the upcoming election.
Hopefully there is still ample time to get them straightened-out to avoid making voting mistakes that will impact their ability to get a job.

65 posted on 11/24/2015 9:49:25 AM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: Chickensoup

Cancer.


66 posted on 11/24/2015 9:51:24 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: Objective Scrutator
There’s plenty to critique about other generations, but Millenials are absolutely worthless and need to be left to starve in the streets. Make them think twice about Satanism and socialism.

Are they really that worthless? Or are they seeing if they can game the system? Kids go through episodes of 'pushing the envelope' to see if they can move boundaries.

I think it is time to reopen the discussion about whether everyone is necessarily fit to attend college.

Forty years ago a Bachelors Degree was worth something, but that has been diminished by the ability of anyone with sufficient funding to finally get a degree in a topic that once would have been a chapter in a textbook.

If this student can't handle that dumbed down curriculum, I think we could find the answer to getting the jobs done Americans supposedly would not do (for when we send the illegals home).

67 posted on 11/24/2015 9:55:44 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

sorry


68 posted on 11/24/2015 9:55:48 AM PST by Chickensoup (We lose our freedoms one surrender at a time)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Slipknot babysitter...very cool factoid! \m/\m/

69 posted on 11/24/2015 9:58:53 AM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have two millennials. I love them dearly. One is passionate about his interests and interested in politics with the typical open mind of the young. He even listens to me, though he doesn’t always agree. The other is younger and busy and not into politics at all. He grew up as a Baby FReeper though, met JimRob, went to many protests.


70 posted on 11/24/2015 10:06:00 AM PST by Yaelle (Trump Cruz 2016)
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To: Blue Jays

She also votes for Libertarians.

Just tragic


71 posted on 11/24/2015 10:08:33 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: wbill; posterchild

Remember, some of em are driving their parents’ cars! ;)


72 posted on 11/24/2015 10:08:48 AM PST by Yaelle (Trump Cruz 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Everybody is somebody else’s weirdo.


73 posted on 11/24/2015 10:11:18 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Blue Jays

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fVE8kSM43I

Filmed just down the street from her house.


74 posted on 11/24/2015 10:14:43 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: Objective Scrutator

Congrats back. I know you and you spouse worked hard and sacrificed some things to have great offspring!


75 posted on 11/24/2015 10:24:40 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ ("It gets late early around here..." Yogi)
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To: Boogieman
Yeah, sure, that’s why the millenials support gay marriage, and all the other radical leftist ideas by a wide margin.

Or so the people in the media who report on polls of carefully selected populations would have us believe.

And who pumped them full of that crap? And who was guarding the guards?

I guess you can blame the lumber if you don't like the way the house turned out, but more often than not it is the craftsmen to blame.

The parents of millennials have allowed their kids heads to be pumped full of mush, and get to share that blame for not paying attention.

Part of human nature is the desire to blend in with the herd, and they are only acting like what they think the herd does. Watch MTV for a while and you will get a sample of that. Now they can access that drivel on everything from a computer to a phone to teevee, so they are never without it.

The selfsame media which ignores everyone from firemen to fighter pilots, Medal of Honor recipients to the real genius kids who are hyperachievers, makes heroes of people who can do back flips on bicycles, skateboards, or splatter out a profane jingle to a tribal rhythm.

When the bar for achievement has been set somewhere other than what has been traditionally viewed as accomplishment, when their parents (in some states) legalize weed for recreation, and when hard work, honesty, and achievement are presented as either a game for suckers or the destruction of Gaia, don't expect too much from the people who are seeing that as their example.

It is the parents who have allowed, even promoted this crap.

Many of the kids I know come from more hardscrabble beginnings, and don't buy into that rubbish. They want to work, but are held back by all sorts of rules designed to keep them out of the workforce long past the age where they would have developed skill sets and a work ethic in years past.

I recommend that our grandchildren become as proficient in English, math, and science as they can, that they learn History--especially what affects them, but that they learn a trade as well. If there is something they passionately want to pursue, fine, go to college, but not just because everyone else is doing it. Plumbers, Mechanics, and electricians (to name a few) are making decent livings out there while people with BA degrees are struggling to make ends meet and pay off college loans.

76 posted on 11/24/2015 10:35:05 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Objective Scrutator

You act as if all the decay in society started with Gen Y. In reality, it was the baby boomers who introduced practically all the evil policies in this country. The Homosexual movement, the legalization of abortion, the rampant use of drugs...the banning of God in the education system. All under the watch of baby boomers. Morals and work ethic are things that your parents teach you. You don’t automatically come by them. So yeah, I say the last 3 generations have been perfectly worthless and we should all die for our worthlessness. You don’t work, you don’t eat. You die. I think that’s a just system.


77 posted on 11/24/2015 10:37:07 AM PST by Politicalkiddo ("We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." Abigail Adams)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

People are so brainwashed it’s unbelievable.

Yuri Bezmenov said,”The demoralization process in the United States is basically completed already for the last 25 years. Actually, it’s over fulfilled because demoralization now reaches such areas where not even Comrade Andropov and all his experts would even dream of such tremendous success. Most of it is done by Americans to Americans thanks to lack of moral standards. As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures. ...he will refuse to believe it.... That’s the tragedy of the situation of demoralization.”

That’s what happened to the young people.

Demoralization has permeated our society for decades.


78 posted on 11/24/2015 10:39:40 AM PST by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireallysupportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
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To: jsanders2001

bump that - my oldest ended up with 12 or more AP courses out of high school and basically tested out of her college requirements. To the point that her counselor said - well you can pretty much take what you want. Her classmates were talking about having taken 2 or 3 and when they asked her they were in shock. One of them asked if she’d done anything besides study. She just smiled and pointed at her varsity jacket. (ok dad brag over)

There are good and bad in every generation. Even the boomers had volunteers for service and those who just plowed away at daily life. I blame the media for promoting it more as much as I do the educators and the individuals.


79 posted on 11/24/2015 10:40:06 AM PST by reed13k (w)
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To: Boogieman

“What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.”-John Wesley

These movements were started by baby boomers. What makes you think that other generations would not embrace it?


80 posted on 11/24/2015 10:40:09 AM PST by Politicalkiddo ("We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." Abigail Adams)
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