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Campus Commotions Show We’re Raising Fragile Kids
National Review ^ | 11/11/2015 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 11/12/2015 7:29:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: 1Old Pro
Ahhhhhh... the students, always sheltered from all perceived 'harm', never challenged as children, always receiving a trophy, raised by hovering 'helicopter' parents.
Those victims??!!

21 posted on 11/12/2015 7:56:19 AM PST by Stand Watch Listen (Was addicted to the Hokey Pokey...but I turned myself around...((@))
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To: pepsionice

Correct, 10 years after the fact my mother did not want me to go to Kent State. Number one, I really had no idea what had happened at Kent State as I was a child. Number 2, we lived in NE, Ohio and it was one of many state schools I was looking at.


22 posted on 11/12/2015 7:58:09 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: SeekAndFind

What worries my a bit is that in a few years some of these delicate flowers and snowflakes will likely be elected to office, or hired as bureaucratic regulators.


23 posted on 11/12/2015 8:00:27 AM PST by bk1000 (A clear conscious is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: defconw

My boss (from years ago in the AF) attended around a decade after the event, and related how almost no one on the campus talked of the event....it was like a forbidden topic, and the Chancellor had a strong thumb on all activities...nothing was approved unless it came from his own personal desk.


24 posted on 11/12/2015 8:01:18 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: SeekAndFind
We are spending upwards of $75k to send our children to indoctrination centers subservient to government puppetmasters. The colleges are glorified day-care centers for little children who have been raised in a completely risk-averse enviroment. After 12 years of "safety," they can't get on without bike helmets, knee- and elbow-pads, no running, no assertiveness, no sex-specific play/words, no Christian charity or faith, no patriotic displays, no games of tag, dodgeball, or "cowboys and Indians," no finger-pointing or pop-tarts with two bites taken out of them, no classroom discipline, no discipline at home, or home chores and duties.

It's no wonder we have a generation of young people on college campuses who are afraid of Halloween costumes who can't tell the difference between truth and lies.

Comes the zombie apocalypse, unfortunatelly, they will be the first to be eaten.

25 posted on 11/12/2015 8:12:37 AM PST by redhead (NO GROUND TO THE DEVIL! Remember BENGHAZI! Use WEAPONIZED PRAYER. NOW.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Campus Commotions Show We're Raising Fragile Kids


26 posted on 11/12/2015 8:14:40 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

Millennials —> SnowFlakes


27 posted on 11/12/2015 8:16:43 AM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Fatherless, entitled, ignorant, propagandized adult children getting their way.

this will not end well.


28 posted on 11/12/2015 8:18:10 AM PST by polymuser ( Enough is enough)
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To: SeekAndFind
Maybe, but in "A Patriot's History of the United States" we showed that Vietnam was NOT necessary to cause campus unrest and riots in the 1960s---that the three "streams" of money, baby boomer kids, and leftist professors who told them to disregard authority itself was sufficient to cause chaos.

This is less about "fragile" kids than it is, as Rush says, an ongoing, unrelenting attack against America and the values that make her great. That in itself creates the victim culture.

29 posted on 11/12/2015 8:21:40 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Stand Watch Listen

Those “fragile kids” would have no problem
sending you, me, and anyone else who doesn’t
agree with them off to re-education camps.


30 posted on 11/12/2015 8:22:36 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Yep, I don’t believe this theory at all. The theories that Goldberg poo-poos are much more accurate. We didn’t get gay marriage because of “fragile kids.” We got it from decades of liberal indoctrination through the schools and media, coupled with the decline of religion, that keeps consolidating its gains year after year. The older generation is dying off while layers and layers of liberal youth get older and stack on top of the next generation, which they teach. And the more liberal the students start out, the further left the professors get to push them. This is a cultural shift.

Obama and Bernie Sanders are not viable candidates because of coddled children, they’re viable because leftism is a much bigger religion with more followers in the U.S. than it was 20 years ago. And its percentage of followers increases the younger the age group is.


31 posted on 11/12/2015 8:28:21 AM PST by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: Paladin2

“Smug in the wooly cotton brains of infancy”


32 posted on 11/12/2015 8:30:10 AM PST by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: tet68
I quite agree...as evidenced by their actions on campuses these last few days/months. Intolerance is to be given to differing viewpoints.

And you know they will be the first to convert to Islam as the latest 'movement'.

As I mentioned on another thread...we are now living under an ancient Chinese curse:

"May you live in Intertesting Times"

33 posted on 11/12/2015 8:36:06 AM PST by Stand Watch Listen (Was addicted to the Hokey Pokey...but I turned myself around...((@))
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To: tet68

The kids who are screaming the F-word at their administrators and demanding they be fired are not weak and coddled. They’re fire-breathing radical leftists. Yes, they’re arrogant, spoiled brats with a sense of entitlement. But there’s nothing fragile about them. These aren’t people who want to be coddled and protected. They’re leftists who want to dominate and control everyone else. These PC, anti-speech policies are NOT coming from people who want to be censored. They’re coming from the beasts who want to do the censoring and control everyone else.


34 posted on 11/12/2015 8:36:07 AM PST by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: SeekAndFind
And what happens when large numbers of these delicate little flowers are set free to navigate their way through life?

pathological oversensitivity + stuck on stupid + can't handle the truth + pathological obsession with offended card, political correctness card, victim card, race card, oppression card, and blame game = assault on free speech by post modernist libtards

35 posted on 11/12/2015 8:38:02 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Travis McGee
The same thing is happening in Europe, but on a much larger scale.

Muslim "Safe Spaces" in Europe.

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36 posted on 11/12/2015 8:38:50 AM PST by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: pepsionice

Interesting, your former boss and I must be around the same age. I ended up down the road at YSU.


37 posted on 11/12/2015 8:43:56 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: 1Old Pro

Well, I don’t see the younger ones doing any better. We are kind of going into the second generation of these wimpy kids.


38 posted on 11/12/2015 8:49:16 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: JediJones
Appears to me that many "breathing radical leftists" may just be outside agitators. Same as the 1960's. Was on campus when either Abbie Hoffman or Jerry Rubin was on campus...swearing up a storm, literally spitting as he shouted...but for the most part, the 'fly over country' occupants did little to participate.

IMHO, just that the present coddled students just go along with the latest 'movement'. Sure there are some that are caught up in the moment and others may have been successfully recruited by these outside agitators. Remember the occupy movements of a few years ago...most proven to be outside anarchists. But these onsite students are products of the decades old education system. Boys/men have been emasculated since the 1990's.

I agree the last two generations are ingrained with an enormous sense of entitlement but for themselves, not necessarily to control authority. They exist within their self contained cell phone/social media world. I do acknowledge that with present day social media, young minds are so malleable. Outside billionaires (NWO) are an ever encroaching disease on our way of life.


39 posted on 11/12/2015 9:04:40 AM PST by Stand Watch Listen (Was addicted to the Hokey Pokey...but I turned myself around...((@))
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To: Zeneta

The map is dated for 2012. Certainly it is FAR different today.


40 posted on 11/12/2015 9:05:36 AM PST by Carthego delenda est
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