Critical thinking skills seem to be in very short supply these days. Our skewls certainly don’t teach them.
Over the last two weekends, I have seen the full evidence of it in various forms.
Twice, I have had to drive a gauntlet of what seems to be high school age girls, standing in town commons holding signs about white racism and Black Lives Matter for viewing by drivers of passing cars.
Then, as I was driving through a five way intersection, there was a young woman in the middle of the intersection drawing a Black Lives Matter message in chalk in the middle, impeding traffic.
I rode my bike on a rail trail last week, and saw a young woman with colored chalk, taking up the trail, engrossed in her chalk portrait of George Floyd and a Black Lives Matter message. I had to maneuver around her.
Last night, as I drove home, I saw a cardboard sign in front of a house, hand drawn in multiple marker colors saying "Black Lives Matter" with a heart symbol.
A heart symbol.
This was the kind of sign you would see from a 7th grade girl, handwriting, multiple colors, the heart symbol.
The point is, in all of this, the unifying thing seemed to me to be they were all female. I don't recall seeing any young males, though I am sure they were there somewhere in those groups holding signs.
I have to conclude that the young females were far more susceptible to the emotional tinkering and indoctrination that have been taking place by the Left for decades.
This sounds like I am denigrating young women, but the truth is, that is simply an observation. (I could be wrong in drawing that conclusion, but I found the absence of young men involved in this both apparent and startling.)
It does not surprise me that there are vocal elements on the Left who want to change the voting age to 16, or even 13. I can see why they would want that.