For thin-skinned college students, we have nobody to blame but ourselves

The Washington Post ^ | November 28, 2015 | Kathleen Parker

[LucyT]

It would be easy to call protesting college students crybabies and brats for pitching hissy fits over hurt feelings, but this likely would lead to such torrents of tearful tribulation that the nation's university system would have to shut down for a prolonged period of grief counseling.

Besides, it would be insensitive.

Instead, let me be the first to say: it's not the students fault. These serial tantrums are direct results of our Everybody Gets a Trophy culture and an educational system that, for the most part, no longer teaches a core curriculum, including history, government and the Bill of Rights.

The students simply don't know any better.

[Baynative]

How will snow flakes ever find the courage to venture out of their safe spaces?

[GilGil]

They won’t venture out. That is the point. They will always need the safe space of government.

[BlackElk]

Can it be that Kathleen Parker is being cured of her previous Obamunism?

[BlackElk]

Imagine if the snowflakes had been forced to fight, say, World War II! Would it have offended them into their "safe places" to see Auschwitz or Bergen Belsen's surviving prisoners or to fight at Iwo Jima when Japanese officers were literally cannibalizing American captives on nearby Chi Chi Jima? Bush the Elder narrowly missed becoming their dinner as a choice 17 year old downed bomber pilot There were four planes in that flight and his was fortunate enough to be farthest from Chi Chi Jima allowing rescue by the Navy for his crew only. The rest of the survivors from the other three planes were captured and eaten according to James Bradley's book on the subject of the secret war crimes trials of the Chi Chi Jima cannibals.

Would that behavior lead Kathleen Parker or even Obozo to call the Nazis and the Chi Chi Jima Japanese "extremists?" Nah, they might be offended and, if still alive, get mad at us.

[joshua c]

At their next protest, people should throw pacifiers at them.

[goldi]

Will they and their teachers ever get over the horror of a pop tart chewed into the shape of a gun?