Chaos on University Campuses and the Inevitable Outcome of Parents Not Disciplining Their Kids
This is the end result of parents raising entitled adolescents who have grown up in a world without consequences. Don’t blame the university for doing exactly what they've doing for generations.
“I’m screaming and assaulting Jews because Daddy didn’t spank me!”
There are a lot of people making comparisons between the lawless demonstrations taking place today on the campuses of elite Ivy League universities – supposedly in protest of Israel’s war with Hamas terrorists – and the hippie riots of 1968 protesting the Vietnam war. Perhaps the 60’s hippies didn’t want to be drafted, thus I would not blame them for protesting against the possibility of being sent to war against their wishes.
But today’s university students have no such threat to their being. This is not their war, nor is it a reason to disrupt everyone else’s education and attack Jewish classmates and professors. So, you have to wonder how exactly these young people became so vicious and full of rage.
I don’t blame the university as much as I blame the parents of these nasty, disruptive little tools. Pretty much all elite Ivy League universities are radical incubators, grooming students to become perpetually outraged and offended by anything or anyone with which they don’t agree. Parents can see this quite clearly, yet many ignore the toxic social environment at these “institutes of higher learning.”
The parents are writing those five-figure checks every year to these elite universities, foregoing a less-expensive school with more focus on education and less on indoctrination.
How is it that these relatively wealthy youngsters are some of the most radicalized and violent? They grew up unsupervised, bored, and without consequences for their actions. They were raised without accountability or expectations. Daddy paid to bail them out of the drunk tank, and Mommy made sure their laundry was always done.
Today’s elite university is not a place to be intellectually challenged or nurtured, but to extend one’s adolescence and postpone one’s adulthood for another four years. But none of this matters to the parents, for it is more important to be able to brag that Shelby and Lincoln are attending Columbia while Mom and Dad are having cocktails at the country club fundraiser for the local gender affirmation clinic. It wouldn’t have had the same social impact if their kids were attending Nassau County Junior College.
Many of these parents of wealthy students view their kids as some sort of fashion accessory, or someone they can keep at arm’s length through constant flattery and Daddy’s credit card. The kids grow up expecting “awesome” as the only word that defines themselves. That word “awesome” completely crowds out any possibility of having a serious conversation between parent and child, since the child believes only in “awesome” and has never been held accountable for anything.
When Junior acts up in class and is suspended, the parents don’t even dream of discipline for Junior – they go after the school administrators for daring to tell their precious offspring that something is unacceptable. This creates a sense of entitlement in the kid that is reinforced over and over through the parents establishing a consequence-free existence for the kid. When confronted, the kid throws a tantrum because the kid has learned that there is no downside to bad behavior.
Because there is no downside to bad behavior, one has to figure there is no downside to bad beliefs either. This creates a perfect opportunity for teachers, university professors, and campus activists to implant the messages and narrow beliefs of their own world into weak thinking, entitled students who are ultimately taught that they are morally superior to others through these beliefs, leading them to embrace violence against anyone or anything that goes against their belief system.
I think the adoption of such hatred is made possible by young people that have been conditioned to view the world in simplistic “oppressor versus oppressed” terms. It boils down to bully versus victim. Israel versus Hamas. Russia versus Ukraine. Police versus Criminal. White versus Black. And so on.
By this calculus, a person emerges from university with a broiling hatred of those deemed to be “oppressors” and in unconditional support of those who are “oppressed.” I remember campus protests in the 1980s over South Africa’s policy of apartheid, with student protest calls for companies to financially divest from doing business in the country. Few, if any, of these student protesters had any financial stake in South Africa and none were themselves “oppressed,” but all of them shared the notion of “oppressor” and “oppressed.”
You might ask, “How can anyone take the side of a murderous terrorist organization over that of innocent people?” The very ignorant and mindless among us that are incapable of thinking outside of their Belief Plantation do not recognize the realities of the world and are thus quite capable of believing just about anything that is embraced by the group. This is why so many seemingly intelligent people can be so utterly wrong on world issues; they have led accountability-free lives and have experienced little-to-no downside consequences resulting from their decisions because they’re largely insolated from them.
Today’s university campus demonstrations against Israel are motivated by a blind hatred of a country that is believed to be an “oppressor,” completely disregarding numerous historical atrocities against a tiny nation that is trying to survive yet another attempt to wipe it off the map. Acknowledging the fact that Israel is acting in self-defense against the invader that started the conflict would go against the “oppressor” narrative, thus the entitled, vicious little tools march, scream, attack, and destroy in support of what they deem to be the “oppressed.”
This will not continue for much longer. Once these youngsters start experiencing the consequences of their outrageous behavior through arrests, fines, expulsions, and jail time, their world view will suddenly come into focus and reality will set in. They’ll lose the Arab neckwear, put away the Palestinian flag, and set upon a new course of actually being productive members of society.
Or maybe they’ll just be garden variety felons and find another cause to scream and riot about. Regardless, I’m sure Mommy and Daddy will be proud of their “awesome” kid.