Posted on 04/28/2024 4:00:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A generation of reckless, entitled, ill-educated brats has stampeded American universities off a high place into the sea.
Watching the idiocy on college campuses this week and seeing all the explanations for protests in favor of murderous Hamas, two tweets seem particularly on point. There’s the great David Burge (Iowahawk) who calls these outbursts “Hamas slumber parties,” and says “This is like staging a pro-Nazi lunch counter sit-in and getting mad that people won’t treat you like you’re a modern-day Rosa Parks.” He attributes protests for the Intifada and slogans reading “from the River to the Sea” by numbskulls who have admittedly no idea what they are protesting as the result of baby-proofing houses, “There is,” he says, “no better educational experience for a child than finding out what happens when you stick a butter knife into an electrical outlet.”
I think he’s right. Helicopter parents who shield kids from the consequences of their actions have raised a generation of reckless, entitled, ill-educated brats. (I’d add to his admonition, the habit of so many parents to spend evenings “helping” their kids with their homework. My view is they either do it or don’t, and if they don’t, they can learn the consequences.)
Elon Musk, another of those whose sage observations I endorse, says:
“The axiomatic error undermining much of Western Civilization is “weak makes right”. If someone accepts, explicitly or implicitly, that the oppressed are always the good guys, then the natural conclusion is that the strong are the bad guys.”
So Hamas engaged in the most brutal attack on a much stronger neighbor, and even before Israel's perfectly predictable response in defense of its own people, Hamas becomes worthy of sympathy and protection. The Israeli counterattack is falsely described as “genocide,” self-rule in Gaza is misnamed “occupation;”
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Proof that years of marxist indoctrination will make children really stupid.
I can argue the point that making society antiseptically safe in all areas of life have removed our ability to properly judge risks.
All of this started when every kid got a participation trophy. We elevated those who do not do as well as others to equal status. That means they did not have to work as hard, compete as hard or develop skills as those that did. Once parents encouraged that behavior and fought for their children “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” (Clairvaux, 12th Century) it was over.
What we wound up with today are children who can’t take care of themselves so their defense mechanism is blaming everyone else for their own failures.
I certainly agree.
Agree 100%
BTTT
Deep State has been waging a war on the nuclear family for decades.
Too many parents refused, and continue to refuse to stand, between Deep State and their kids.
These pro-palestinian types should be called “genocidal homophobic racists” because that is who they are supporting.
Well we have a participation Awarded President too.
You have touched on one of my particular beefs.
Participation trophies are wrong on every level. Purportedly, “for the children” the idea is promoted by “well meaning” virtue signaling busybodies and destroys the moral compass of those it is supposedly cherishing. One of my sons was 8 about 22 years ago when I first heard about the obscene concept. I was revolted but I never could have guessed at the extent of the damage it would cause.
“even before Israel’s perfectly predictable response in defense of its own people, Hamas becomes worthy of sympathy and protection.”
Plainly demonstrated coordination between arabs and leftists.
He used to post here. Wonder why he left?
Maybe that’s why my kids are normal, well adjusted, Christian and conservative.
We did a little of that with the first, but by the fourth one, well, he was kind of on his own to figure it out.
We didn’t child proof our guns either. We gun proofer=d our kids by training them.
It’s true that reckless adoption of bad ideas - such as “baby-proofing” a generation of children into entitled brats - can weaken a culture.. but these are mistakes.
Let’s not forget that our culture is also under a purposeful attack by Marxist tyrants bent on destroying our self-governing Republic. They have been infiltrating and corrupting our institutions for a hundred years.
We are being told nothing but lies by our own government, our own professors, our own titans of science and industry, and our own journalists, anrtists and philosophers.
The average American is living in a Matrix-like illusion, starved of the truth, confused about a myriad of simple questions - the answers to which should be as obvious as the difference between a boy and a girl.
Someone earlier pointed out that it took Democrats and their supporters only four years to go from “punch a Nazi” to “kill the Jews”.
” One of my sons was 8 about 22 years ago when I first heard about the obscene concept. I was revolted but I never could have guessed at the extent of the damage it would cause.”
When my son got a participation trophy, I took it from him and threw it out. Then I explained to him why I did it and helped him develop life skills which the teachers refused to do. He is now very successful in his field and recently thanked my wife and I on how he was brought up.
ever notice that the true Conservative just wants to be left alone in peace to live life while the typical leftist democrat is always, ALWAYS searching for something or someone to focus their hate and rage on and wonder exactly why and how they become so filled with pure evil?
That's why we're where we're at now. The left made their money count while we didn't, and now all of the companies are pandering to their ideology and covering for them.
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