The Scorn of the Self Righteous Cultural Marxists

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I agree with you that there is an age gap—but I don’t really think this is the problem. I am able to speak with people who are much older or younger than I am without flinging wild accusations, threatening to get a person fired, and taking part in moblike actions. The students, in my opinion, showed no tact, no class, no self-restraint, little ability to speak in a dignified manner. They were, instead, insulting, rude, aggressive, and impertinent.

I am not much interested in trying to find ways to excuse their behavior by saying that the subject of the discussion was so explosive or sensitive that, yes, it affected their emotions but they are young so that is why. I do not think that is why at all. The subject was not even explosive and sensitive. Who really needs to get upset over an email like that? What is this outrage culture really all about? What is the point of it? Adults should not be acting that way. They should not be behaving as though everyone is obliged to live by and conform to their beliefs.

But that is really what this mob of students wanted: they want conformity to their demands. What have they earned? What position of authority do they occupy where they get to make demands of their supposed superiors? Or are we not going to acknowledge that a professor holds a superior position to a student? This mob of students is riding a high horse; they are full of hubris and scorn. They have been taught to act vengefully towards anyone who dares to utter words that go against their cultural Marxist way of looking at the world. We have seen this type of inflammation before. It was all over Europe in between the two wars of the first half of the 20th century. I guarantee you we will see something similar happen here as a result of this same inflammation. It has reached that point.

Were they justified in acting that way? I don’t believe they were at all and I don’t believe one should try to excuse them or defend them. It is not their age that is the problem—it is the way they have been raised and educated. They have been taught to be “activists”—to “stand up” for themselves—and what do they represent? Anything good? The cultural Marxists would say yes. And is everyone in college supposed to be a cultural Marxist now? These students are so self-righteous and entirely out of step with actual civility that I shudder to think what would happen in this country if they were ever to run it. They have been taught that they are entitled to their say. I am sorry, but I disagree that anyone is entitled to scream in another person’s face and make hostile accusations like this when it is dozens of people against one. “One on one, they won’t look you in the eye, but when the pack’s together, the battle cry.”

There is nothing mature, rational, acceptable, or appropriate about that at all. I don’t care if the subject matter is potentially offensive. These are not children: they are adults but they are acting like the world revolves around them and their thin-skinned sensibilities. It does not and it should not. These young adults have not paid their dues, yet they want to act like they deserve all the places of honor. The nerve of that young women acting like this professor should know her name as though she were queen of the campus. The more I have to think about this event, the angrier I get. This young generation has been taught to do nothing but act outraged at every possible thing they can think of that goes against their politically correct opinions. None of this bodes well.