A generation of crybabies?

A generation of crybabies?

What of this generation of college students that are pampered, coddled and easily offended who must shelter in a safe place to console trauma caused by microaggressions real or imagined? Consider all of the universities that designated “safe spaces” with grief counselors to console the poor traumatized students after Trump’s victory. One offered cookies, milk, Legos and coloring books. Cookies milk, Legos and coloring books? Professors ranted and raved and canceled classes, postponed exams and called for resistance. Some gave their students a day or so to recover. 

Good grief. You mean these people actually thought Harris was going to win? Of course, they had been spewing hate of Trump all along and probably deceived themselves into thinking that Trump was going to lose. Many actually favored Biden’s agenda on diversity, gender and the climate and were among the 28 percent that thought that the country was moving in the right direction. 

I noticed that every report of college trauma was from one of the so-called “elite” schools. I did not see any stories on the University of Georgia, or Tennessee, or Mississippi State having grief sessions. It was all Harvard, Yale, Penn, Claremont and the like. One thing to keep in mind is that the students have been raised and educated in a socialist environment. In the home they did not have to work for their meals and shelter. It was provided by their parents. In essence the students were subsidized. Most then went to college and did not have to work to pay for school. Again, they were either subsidized by their parents or by donors. They were taught by professors, most of whom never worked outside the socialist cocoon of the university. The professors were themselves subsidized as children, subsidized as students and then went directly to graduate school where they were subsidized even more. Then they became teachers employed in a subsidized university. All they have known their entire life is socialism. They are mostly anti-capitalist disregarding where the money ultimately comes from for their salaries and well-being. Most think it comes from the state or the largesse of benefactors. It is truly manna from heaven.

These professors lecture about the evils of capitalism out of their ignorance and spew hated toward the right. The question is whether they influence their students. My experience teaching at some of the nation’s most liberal universities is that most of the students are more conservative than the faculty. Yes, there were some students on the far left but they were in the minority and most were leftists before they came to the university. Remember all the pro Hamas demonstrations? Most of the students and faculty interviewed were from the Arts. Few business students, business professors, engineering students and their professors were participating. Those folk were too serious to be involved in such nonsense. 

My suspicion is that the same is true with the Trump trauma crowd. Most of these will continue to be socialist and hate the right. But they will be in the minority. They make headlines but don’t be fooled. The majority of students don’t need consoling or counseling. Only the wimpy crybaby ones.