America's college kids are a bunch of mollycoddled babies

Politico ^ | May 21, 2014 | CHESTER E. FINN JR.

[Second Amendment First]

Because freedom can be so terrifying, the lil darlings must have their hands held when crossing the street.

[Shimmer1]

I’m so glad my kids were homeschooled!

[mmichaels1970]

I think this involves a very small minority of kids affecting the majority. This also probably involves a bunch of bleeding-heart lib adults who've decided they know what's best for the students.

I guarantee you, if you walked on any major campus and asked the students walking the quad whether they felt they needed "trigger warnings", they'd think you were out of your mind.

[Biggirl]

They need to get their faces slapped by reality.

[AlexW]

The entire culture in America is going to Hell in a hand-basket. An act of God is needed, and soon.

[BitWielder1]

Real life contains a lot of traumatizing things and there are no warnings.
Better to learn how to deal with it.

[cripplecreek]

Too many kids in college who would have been better served by trade schools.

[hal ogen]

Addled-brain LIB idiots. They want everyone to be a wimp and everyone to be a Freedom hater...just like themselves. Their inadequacy is stunning and disgusting. One can only hope that life hits them hard and often...whatever the result.

[AppyPappy]

A very small minority play that game. I was an adviser for the largest club on campus for 10 years and I heard lots of “offensive” stuff. Everything bad was “so gay” and there were gays in the club.
They surf porn in the large lecture halls.

[dfwgator]

The world needs ditchvdiggers, too.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Journalists are a bunch of arrogant, mollycoddled morons. See, anybody can generalize.

True, there are plenty of college students to whom this article would apply. But there are also many who are just keeping their heads low, ignoring the bulls**t, and playing the game to get that piece of paper.

And on that point about joining the army being unlikely, Army ROTC enrollment has increased by 50% since 2006, even as benefits are decreased.

[deoetdoctrinae]

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[defconw]

I hope you are right.

[cripplecreek]

I can practically hear the gasps of horror over the net when I suggest to college educated morons working at McDonalds that they should consider farm work for higher wages. (Generally $12 to $15 per hour these days)

They immediately inform me that they have a college degree. I tell them to keep their mouth shut about it and the farmer won’t hold it against them.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

And WHY are they that way??? Its not inate to them. They were TAUGHT to be that way by the current generation of teachers and professors. People look at this problem as if its all the kids’ fault when the real problem is that the 60s Libs created an educational infrastructure that produces intolerant, mollycoddled babies.

[Yo-Yo]

Trigger warning: I don’t give a flying rip about your triggers!

[mmichaels1970]

A very small minority play that game.

I agree. I remember back in my college days we once started shouting out the window at some guys in the dorm across the street. Good-natured trash-talk.

It devolved into a group of us and them meeting in the middle of the street. That, in turn, grew into a crowd and we decided we could have a heck of a lot of fun if we marched the crowd up-town.

After about an hour of gathering steam and screaming about this and that, a few lib-kids decided to step up and make our good time into some sort of activist protest about something or other.

I can't remember what the heck they decided we were supposed to be protesting. We were simply there because it was fun.

[mmichaels1970]

True, there are plenty of college students to whom this article would apply. But there are also many who are just keeping their heads low, ignoring the bulls**t, and playing the game to get that piece of paper.

My thoughts exactly.

[mmichaels1970]

I hope you are right.

I believe I am. When writing an article, one of the easiest ways to generate buzz and get readership is to turn one side against another.

With college kids, I'm more concerned with dope and booze (which is nothing new), than with the mass conversion of our 18-22 year olds into kids that need trigger warnings.

[ridesthemiles]

I wish I knew a stronger word than “Molly-coddled”.

What is even more frightening is that this is a generation of wussies that will be fighting for the freedoms of this country against who knows.......

I wouldn’t hire a single one of them to water my horses.