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Posted on 11/26/2015 3:31:56 PM PST by pboyington
In the last two weeks, the news has been inundated with stories concerning the Paris attacks, the manhunts in Belgium and France, the subsequent ISIS threats to US and NATO and Russian interests across the globe and the seemingly infinite bad news from the Middle East.
The story of campus protests across this country, which had been in the forefront of media coverage, has taken a back stage to much more important things. Nevertheless, the story is still there and the question of why college students are protesting at all, is mystifying.
It is important to examine this on Thanksgiving, a day of gratitude for the nation.
College students at Mizzou, the University of Missouri, were protesting apparent racism on campus. After taking a closer look, the racism appears to be an invisible boogeyman, like much of the issues young kids are whining about today. Much of the outcry was based on the accusations that someone called someone the “N†word or the fictitious racist comment painted in a waste product. The storm of insanity that resulted from this caused a college president to resign and a warped, Maoist version of Woodstock to take place at one of the nation’s centers of free thought. Students demanded their “safe space,†a term in vogue at colleges across the country today.
To quote, Sir Laurence Olivier in “Marathon Man,†“Is it safe?â€
The truth is the so-called racism at Mizzou is a figment of racism. These kids have no idea about real racism, the racism that protesters in the Deep South faced in the 1950’s and 1960’s. No one in Missouri is being denied a seat on a bus, or a place at a lunch counter. No one at Mizzou is being blocked from class by the governor and his pack of guard dogs.
The outrage against imaginary bad things is present everywhere, like at Yale, when students went crazy over an administrator’s Halloween costume email. The email simply told the students that it was just Halloween and that they should get a grip and not be offended by someone’s costume. That set off a firestorm of student temper tantrums, claiming that Yale was not providing them a safe space.
Across the country, there is an epidemic of students being offended by nearly everything imaginable: passages in books, costumes, words, phrases, apparent and unapparent meanings. Everything is potentially racist or sexist and can be a micro-aggression that triggers them. When offended, students demand that they move to a safe space where they can calm down or discuss what caused their delicate little souls so much harm.
These students aren’t protesting anything real like the Vietnam War or Jim Crow laws or pollution. Their grievances are imaginary. These students are rebels without a cause. These Millennial whiners are the Ungrateful Generation.
Now, the nation is seeing the result of parents and teachers coddling America’s children for 25 years; the children who were constantly referred to as “special snowflakes†and received trophies for just showing up and batting .100 all season. America has created a generation of young people who don’t know how to fend for themselves, who need affirmation 24 hours a day and who are so soft that it would be laughable if it wasn’t truly tragic.
Even more frightening, America has created a generation of young people who support the virtual destruction of free speech, if it enables them to feel safe and no longer offended.
These little Stalinists, these little snowflakes need to take a deep breath and realize how lucky they truly are. Regardless of the political bickering and daily problems, America is still the greatest nation on earth. These young students are fortunate that they are able to attend such fine universities as Yale or Mizzou. Prior generations in this country had no student loans. There was no government funding. There was only a job in a factory. While these whiners complain about nothing and make absurd and Maoist demands of cowardly university officials, people their age are serving in the military and defending all of us. Other kids are working two or three jobs to make ends meet.
The Ungrateful Generation of college wussies needs to learn about real protests, real issues and the people their age that fought and died for us in. Eighteen year old guys at the Battle of the Bulge didn’t have time to be offended by micro-aggressions. They were dealing with real world macro-aggressions, like the Waffen SS.
Someone needs to send the Ungrateful Generation to a major time out, where they can ponder reality.
If they think life is tough at Yale, they ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
A LONG overdue piece and brilliantly written.
Students these days are so hopelessly ungrateful and coddled it’s disgusting. There’s no reason at all for Occupy Wall Street or Black Lives Matter or anything like that. They’re just walking around causing horrible messes and I don’t think there is any way to change this other than start filing lawsuits against universities. Then schools will have to be more selective and of course, the rest of the country will be free from their BS.
There is a real reason for them to be marching around. It’s called follow the leader. And the leaders are the communists.
Hey, why don’t we loan them money they can never expect to pay back since there are no jobs.
That will show the little whiners.
Obama’s election elevated expectations among Blacks. Although there is a limit to what a president can do, the ridiculous expectations articulated in Black neighborhoods were, in fact, evidence of heightened expectations, and the fact that Obama has not cut the mustard is overlooked. A scapegoat needs to be found. Whitey’s fault. Yeah, that’s the ticket,
And, as well, many students of color find competition surprisingly difficult, and rather than be thankful that favoritism got them in, instead rationalize by blaming the success of well-prepared, well-qualified white students on white privilege. Likewise, the outrageous criminality of young Black males is the source of their many confrontations with the police, and is the reason for the black-on-black crime waves. Rather than face facts, blame the police.
If there were things which could reasonably be done to move the Black minority up the ladder, many would support them, but most programs are just handouts.
When things quiet down, it will just be because of some new handouts. Nothing is going to change until Black Americans embrace change and undertake it seriously.
The expectation was that Obama would take from whitey and give to blacks. They are blaming whitey for being too powerful even for Obama to rip off to the extent they (and Obama) would like.
“To:Hey, why don’t we loan them money they can never expect to pay back since there are no jobs.”
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They are not forced to go to college.
They are not forced to borrow money.
They have choices——and yes,these protestors ARE little whiners.
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Really, this is being over-analyzed. The main reason these children are out there is the simplest, most selfish reason: it makes them feel good, it makes them feel like they are cool, and it gives them status and approbation in the eyes of their peers who comprise the mob. Ask any of them, or the Occupy ____________ (fill in the blank) protestors, what they are protesting, and they’ll either not know or give you a mindless playback of some memorized lines. You can see a lot of videos on Watters’ World or MRCTV that show precisely that.
More like “rebels without a clue.”
Moreover, they idolize the student protesters of the past and want to be like them but they don’t have any grave issues to protest so they have to make things up. Children will rebel, it’s part of growing up. Well, they’re the ones who will have to live with the police state they’re creating.
FAN_DAMN_TASTIC!
Fascist snowflakes.
Phillip K. Dick’s story “The Man in the High Castle” is about to come to theaters and I pray the youth will recognize their misplaced devotion to vacuous evil and set their courses right. But I’m a hopeless optimist destined to be a “red shirt” in this fight to keep America true to it’s foundation. So be it.
Actually, “The Man in the High Castle” is a series on amazon. Excellent show BTW.
‘but they don’t have any grave issues to protest’
How about the ever increasing Federal debt?
It’s a made for Amazon series. I watched the pilot, very well done.
This isn’t just about Communism; this is more about something else.
It’s not just young people.
There are people older than me in my family who used to be kind of normal.
At some point, they partook of the koolaid in a quest to be young again, cool and hip.
Stupidest mid life crisis evah.
I agree there is something else. But the communists are effectively taking over these groups as a means to foment conditions ripe for revolution.
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