November 11, 2015
By: Linda Case Gibbons
Where did these college students come from? These Millennials who are so very unhappy?
The "Greatest Generation" grew up during the Depression, and went on to fight World War II, but this generation of Americans is unable to make it through a day of classes at Yale.
They feel "unsafe." They are, they say, insulted and assaulted by "White Privilege." But when asked to explain what those terms mean, they can't.
They feel. It's emotional. But the problem is, these college campus tantrums end up forcing people at the top to quit.
Even though Millennials were taught American history, in grade school, middle school, high school and college, these college students know nothing about their country's history. How is that possible?
Because they are unhappy. And that's all they know.
They're not unhappy because they can't identify a photo of the current vice president. They're unhappy because they're unhappy. And they'll make sure everyone knows it.
"Other people" and "things" make them nervous.
Students in "controversial" Halloween costumes offend them.
Reading too many books about, and by "white people" left one Columbia University student so severely traumatized, it took her six years to complete her degree.
"That demonstrates how hard it has been for me to get through this institution," Nissy Aya said. But statistics indicate she was exceptional in more ways than one. Columbia has one of the highest four-year graduation rates in the country, but I guess that's only if you're not traumatized.
Even the campus ground they walk upon makes some students angry, because, as one explained, the University of Missouri was built on the backs of slaves, and there "needs to be a dialogue."
A student at the University, Jonathan Butler, launched a hunger strike, he was so angry. It only lasted two days, but something must have worked, because afterwards, University President Tim Wolfe resigned.
It turned out that Butler's hunger strike had more to do with him being taken off his father's healthcare policy than anything else. And it seems his father is a railroad vice president earning $8 million a year. Some might call this rich kid a brat. Some might.
Why did it take so long for Butler to become offended at the university's origins, you might ask, after he'd been a graduate student, on campus for eight years. But nonetheless, he said, he felt oppressed, furious, at "white privilege."
When some of the racial incidents reported at the University of Missouri were found to be bogus, "the kids" were still assured that they did not have to tolerate being uncomfortable in any way, not ever.
If the "kids" witnessed any incidents of "hateful and/or hurtful speech or actions," they were instructed, by University police to give them a call, and to make sure they included a detailed description of the offender, location, license plate or picture, if possible.
The First Amendment at its finest.
So where did this behavior come from?
It comes from the very top.
Liberal professors who constitute 75 to 80 percent of the faculties at American universities, have done a good job, filling the "kids'" minds with liberal, one-sided, anti-American rhetoric, but now the worm has turned, now the professors are under attack, by the Frankensteins they created.
How unfair is life?
These students are not grateful, even though they have the privilege of attending colleges that most of us would give our eye teeth to attend. Instead they are moody, angry, sensitive, immune to history and facts. And one cannot miss the striking similarity of their behavior to that of our president, and the former and current secretaries of state. The "folks" at the top.
The kids have learned the lessons these good people have taught, from bad deals struck with Iran, Benghazi and Ferguson, and the kids are carrying on those good works.
Hold the line, America.