Why are young Leftists such intolerable brats?

[mountaineer]

Why are young Leftists such intolerable brats? They’re desperate for their lives to have meaning.
 Jennifer Kabbany - Fix Editor •January 23, 2019


‘The hunger for identity is what fuels the mob-ready grievance culture’

Nathan Harden, former editor of The College Fix, author of “Sex and God at Yale: Porn, Political Correctness, and Good Education Gone Bad,” and currently education editor for RealClearPolitics, has a new piece in Academic Questions that takes on his alma mater and ponders whether its current president has the backbone to save the once great institution from its current crisis.

Today, it’s a campus filled with the “anguished cries of our national grievance culture,” a place where an “ununpopular political opinion is liable to launch a campus-wide protest,” and an institution at which openly professed “religious belief is liable to provoke mass meltdown.”

“Today, Yale is not so much a university as it is a safe space with a $27 billion endowment,” Harden writes. “Am I exaggerating? Maybe. But not by much.” ...

... “Identity politics,” [Eberstadt] writes, “cannot be understood apart from the preceding and concomitant social fact of the family implosion.” With the rise of single-parent households, and serial coupling and uncoupling, the disintegration of family and community has left a giant void of identity, which this generation is desperate to fill. Fewer than 65 percent of American children live with both biological parents, she points out.  ...

Moreover, if politics is a proxy for family these days, it may function even more so as a proxy for religion. ...

Read the entire article at The College Fix

[dfwgator]

Leftism is totally based on the concept of Envy.  "Somebody has something that  I don't!"

[Wingnut]

This what you get when you lowered the bar on exceptionalism for an entire generation by giving them participation trophies and filling their skulls of mush with warm and fuzzy feel good self esteem bullshit.  Life is a bitch.

[mountaineer]

I think a lot of things contribute to this mess: public school socialist indoctrination which fails to teach objective facts about history (like you said, dfwgator, they learn class envy -> everyone who has more than you is evil) and "self-esteem" bolstering; helicopter parents who indulge them with every little thing, from iPhones at a young age to lavish allowances and not requiring them to do chores; no exposure to church/synagogue teaching where they might possibly learn that there's someone or something greater than themselves.    There's no end to it.

[Bigun]

I see no responses to this article that I disagree with!

Good job all!

[berdie]

I see no responses to this article that I disagree with!

Good job all!

Yep...I was looking for a good post to respond to...but they are all too "on the mark".

[Wingnut]

Yep...I was looking for a good post to respond to...but they are all too "on the mark".

@Once-Ler  has not posted as of yet.  Hold your powder. 

[berdie]

@Once-Ler  has not posted as of yet.  Hold your powder.

That is a truth!!