Posted on 11/24/2015 4:45:48 AM PST by Kaslin
Remember the campus unrest in the 1960s? Whether or not you agreed with the students, they were protesting about things of great consequence -- civil rights, the military draft, the Vietnam War. They had chants such as "Hell no, we won't go."
Those were the good old days.
Now we are witnessing whiny college kids marching in the streets, screaming obscenities or taking over the university president's office, and for what? Feeling slighted? Having their feelings hurt? Talk about rebels without a cause.
I've traveled to many campuses in recent weeks and experienced the melodrama of student grievances firsthand. To be fair, I should note that many of the students are impressive, with open and inquiring minds. It's only a loud-mouthed minority whose mission is to shut out and shut down views they find ways to be offended by.
These leftist kids are agitated and angry. This is a hangover effect, I suspect, from the shattered Utopian dreams of "Hope and Change." I have noticed in recent months that these students attend my lectures not to learn anything -- they know everything already -- but hoping that I will slip up or say something they can label as offensive or that violates their eight-volume campus speech code.
When I ask them what they want, a typical response is "radical transformation of the economy" to reduce income inequality, racism and sexism and, of course, to end climate change. Government will command these changes to achieve this transformation. These are young Stalinists who are willing to suspend almost every basic freedom and civil liberty for "the greater good."
They're on a roll, having already successfully removed university presidents and faculty for the sin of being insufficiently responsive to their latest grievances.
At one recent visit to the University of Massachusetts, I asked a few kids what their plans were for Thanksgiving. They practically spat at me for even mentioning this white-supremacy holiday, which only trivializes and glorifies the genocide of the Native Americans by the pilgrims. Wow. Sorry I brought it up, especially in your "safe space."
I can't help contrasting these attitudes with a recent meeting I had with a group of soldiers who had returned from Afghanistan. These brave men and women risked their lives every day. They had real bullets shot at them, not the verbal ones that the campus leftists find so offensive. They have genuine and, in some cases, life-changing injuries: ringing in the ears, post-traumatic stress disorder and broken limbs.
They served so that campus leftists can remain sheltered in their cocoons and protest the wounds to their fragile psyches from having to listen to a point of view they disagree with. The horror.
Can you imagine the tyranny you would bring upon yourself by actually hiring one of these self-righteous complainers?
Employers tell me despondently that millennials are by far the highest-maintenance generation they've ever seen. One recruiter recently told me: "They need their hands held; they demand affirmation; they are forever whining about their feelings. We really don't have time to deal with their petty grievances."
Who's to blame for all of this? Alas, we are: the parents who caved in to every instant-gratification demand they ever had, arranged "play dates" for them, showered them with positive affirmation daily and gave them timeouts rather than spankings. Our schools are to blame for labeling them "gifted and talented" and awarding them towering trophies for finishing in sixth place so as not to damage self-esteem. College professors are to blame for corrupting their minds with hate-America ideology. And now the administrators are to blame, too, as they bend to students' every petty demand.
Worst of all are the successful, well-meaning Americans who think they are being charitable by giving their money to the very universities that are indoctrinating these kids with nonsensical ideas. Why? Just stop. Society would be better off if you just burned your money.
I admit that people make these complaints about every new generation. But millennials seem seriously off-kilter, and we made them this way. A generation that has grown up in more affluence and personal freedom than any other in history has been taught to hate the free enterprise wealth-creation process that gave them what they want in the first place. A generation that has been drilled since pre-kindergarten that the highest virtue in life is tolerance has suddenly become the least tolerant in history.
What they lack most is gratitude. It's something to think about this Thanksgiving.
Drama Queens
“Who Created These Campus Whiners”
The Progressive Liberal Democrat/Rino Communist Uni-Party
THAT’S WHO!
——Can you imagine——
the memo has been written...... no recent graduates of Mizlou shall be hired until further notice
I can answer that. The BABY BOOMERS that listened to Dr. Spock and didn’t SPANK their kids. It all started there.
Let's see now .... that would'a been around 19-Clinton .... the pretty boy president with the equally sex crazed wife ...
Elections have consequences
Our government created them by supporting, funding, aiding, and enticing liberal professors to create societal havoc.
It created grants, the need for biased political studies, biased science, and an all-round ally against our traditional values. Ideological academic whores who have no substantive contribution to the fabric of this nation.
When they are not out supporting this morally corrupt government, they are working in the classrooms destroying minds and refilling them with nonsense.
Cut off their student loans and send them back to nursery school.
It’s been going on for a long time.
Manipulating and pandering to the youth is not new... you recall the ‘Hitler Youth’.
Nazi’s KNEW that you could control events if you indoctrinate the young.
In the US, the young are indoctrinated from birth and since young people are incredibly impressionable, it’s not difficult to do.
They ARE the last magazine they read, they ARE the last book they read, they ARE the last movie they saw, etc.
People who OUGHT to know better, take the most shameful and unfair advantage of young people and their inexperience.
Society cannot withstand this full court press that has been going on for decades.
“It is disconcerting that present-day young, who did not know Stalin and Hitler, are displaying the old naïveté. After all that has happened they still do not know that you cannot build utopia without terror, and that before long terror is all that’s left.†Eric Hoffer
From the article: “I can’t help contrasting these attitudes with a recent meeting I had with a group of soldiers who had returned from Afghanistan. “
The end of the draft by Richard Nixon greatly contributed to the destruction of the Republic. Compulsory military service for all citizens would have provided lessons in leadership, teamwork, self discipline, respect for others, hard work to get results, and living frugally. In addition many would have left the service with skills leading to long careers in the civilian world. We would have fewer inflated egos and narcissists as well as less tolerance for those who demand authority without accountability.
Obama.
We boomers had our kids but our kids entered a world we have to admit we created, but it was not the world we envisioned
THAT'S why many of us are born-again Christians .... we see what sin hath wrought and are now repented and trying to preach holiness and righteousness to a world that took advantage of our "freedom" and used it against us (our kids)
Pretty much the same tactic the present enemy is doing to America ... infiltrating and using our laws against us
don't keep score at kids soccer games because they are all winners
no one deserves to flunk a grade, you are "special"--always
don't single out an outstanding player, give everyone a trophy
Now put them in a situation where they need to think for themselves and they can't. When I was teaching at a Big 10 university, I saw a student standing on a box yelling "Down with Capitalism", so I stopped and asked: "Okay, so what are you going to replace it with?" He looked like a deer in the headlights...no plan...no solution...change for change's sake.
Grow up, you twits!
What difference, at this point, does it make?
MTV
The ME generation gave birth to the ONLY ME generation who begat the ME AS Mt. Olympus generation.
Since 1973 there has been no mandatory military draft. No sharing of burdens and responsibilities - only privilege and me, me, me.
A small percentage of the population grows food for and defends the rest. There is a dislocation from former civic understanding and values upon which this nation was founded. Now ignorance rules.
Religion is not cool, neither is G-d. What IS cool are violent forms of entertainment where Manhattan gets obliterated by (take your pick) Godzilla, Fog, Aliens, Cold weather, tornadoes, earthquakes, robots, Martians or Zombies.
The most telling sign of this loss of values and identity came with the election to the highest office in the land of an unknown and untested candidate who's background and credentials are sketchy. After this man was elected twice, the real disruption, confusion and mayhem set in. That is what we are going through right now and the President has sped up this deadly process, assuring us that our enemies are not our enemies.
Yea, I agree...I was jumping around generations a bit when deciding what to write, but I do think it started with the Boomers.
Good analogy to the Religion of Peace - hadn’t occurred to me that our own kids were exploiting the freedoms our grandparents fought so hard to give them.
“the memo has been written...... no recent graduates of Mizlou shall be hired until further notice”
I’ve thought about this also...I’d say that a recent degree from that place would be worth about as much as one used square of Cheryl Crow’s toilet paper these days.
Or NYC fire fighters!
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