I'm done worrying about the consequences of offending or annoying the whacko left and its Twitter mobs.
My daughter is always telling me "You cannot say that."
I then reply, "But its TRUE and it is common sense and obvious."
She then tells me, "It doesn't matter, you cannot say that."
I then ask, "Why the hell not?"
She generally replies, "You do not get it. You are showing your age."
She is right on both counts. I do not get it and I am old enough to remember when people spoke what they thought. They did not hem and haw and find a thousand ways to say what they thought in a way that might not offend anyone and if they believed something to be true, they just said it expecting either someone to PROVE them wrong or demonstrate why they were mistaken OR to admit you were right.
These people, the ones that are not straight out crazy, are brittle and weak. My generation grew up without participation trophys, teachers and parents more concerned that you learned and learned how to survive, than with your feelings. For us, confidence came from real achievement and failure taught you lessons. Realizing you were never gonna be a super model or a star QB gave you the chance to go be a great mathematician or scientist or maybe a cop.
WEAK....BRITTLE....FRIGHTENED.......that is how I see these people.
I have given in to the point where my nephews know that they cannot repeat certain things when "we are not in Auntie Anne's house"
I concede that some of those things are "inappropriate" but very witty, and they should not refer to me as "their evil oppressor" in public ( only one soda a day)
Perhaps you've heard of the Three Great Untruths as expressed in Haidt & Lukianoff's "The Coddling of the American Mind." They encapsulate the broken thinking of this fragile generation: (1) What doesn't kill you makes you weaker; (2) Always trust your feelings; and (3) Life is a battle between good people and evil people.
The case of G-town Law to Professors Sellers and Batson in 2021 is a perfect representation of a weak, frightened and brittle community.
One of the professors made an observation to the other -- about black students underperforming in her classes. It was a comment made out of concern. And instead of figuring out if this was true more broadly and if we, as a university can do better by our black students, the whole idea was too toxic. There could only be 1 explanation and that was the problem was the professor was bigoted towards her black students. No evidence to support that, mind you. But fire hee, they did.
Because the students a Georgetown Law demanded it. They couldn't even handle risking finding out something might have been the truth. That's what brittle, weak and frightened does. Worse for all, they now have genuine power.
The problem with being unwilling to look at failure is that it keeps you from figuring out why your failing and correct it. A life lesson that all of us need to learn.
The problem is your generation allowed our colleges to push students to the left, so far as to make them progressives, starting in the early 60s. Then, you hired these graduates to teach in K-12 schools and now we have these progressives in government, school administrations and business. Our Constitution is doomed and so is the American experiment. Just a matter of time. Thanks for "watching the store".
Young people always think that they're wiser than their parents. The truth is though, that young people don't know much of anything about anything, for the simple reason that they haven't been around that long. A person born, say, in 1990, takes for granted things that were science fiction if not fantasy in 1949, the year I was bornтАФjust as I took for granted things that were unimaginable in 1900. The difference, perhaps, is that nowadays the ignorance of the young is privileged. They're encouraged to think that history began with them, that the past doesn't matter, and that they have the power to invent the world anew. To which I would reply, channeling William Faulkner: "The past isn't dead. It isn't even past."
I'm done worrying about the consequences of offending or annoying the whacko left and its Twitter mobs.
My daughter is always telling me "You cannot say that."
I then reply, "But its TRUE and it is common sense and obvious."
She then tells me, "It doesn't matter, you cannot say that."
I then ask, "Why the hell not?"
She generally replies, "You do not get it. You are showing your age."
She is right on both counts. I do not get it and I am old enough to remember when people spoke what they thought. They did not hem and haw and find a thousand ways to say what they thought in a way that might not offend anyone and if they believed something to be true, they just said it expecting either someone to PROVE them wrong or demonstrate why they were mistaken OR to admit you were right.
These people, the ones that are not straight out crazy, are brittle and weak. My generation grew up without participation trophys, teachers and parents more concerned that you learned and learned how to survive, than with your feelings. For us, confidence came from real achievement and failure taught you lessons. Realizing you were never gonna be a super model or a star QB gave you the chance to go be a great mathematician or scientist or maybe a cop.
WEAK....BRITTLE....FRIGHTENED.......that is how I see these people.
I have given in to the point where my nephews know that they cannot repeat certain things when "we are not in Auntie Anne's house"
I concede that some of those things are "inappropriate" but very witty, and they should not refer to me as "their evil oppressor" in public ( only one soda a day)
Perhaps you've heard of the Three Great Untruths as expressed in Haidt & Lukianoff's "The Coddling of the American Mind." They encapsulate the broken thinking of this fragile generation: (1) What doesn't kill you makes you weaker; (2) Always trust your feelings; and (3) Life is a battle between good people and evil people.
The case of G-town Law to Professors Sellers and Batson in 2021 is a perfect representation of a weak, frightened and brittle community.
One of the professors made an observation to the other -- about black students underperforming in her classes. It was a comment made out of concern. And instead of figuring out if this was true more broadly and if we, as a university can do better by our black students, the whole idea was too toxic. There could only be 1 explanation and that was the problem was the professor was bigoted towards her black students. No evidence to support that, mind you. But fire hee, they did.
Because the students a Georgetown Law demanded it. They couldn't even handle risking finding out something might have been the truth. That's what brittle, weak and frightened does. Worse for all, they now have genuine power.
The problem with being unwilling to look at failure is that it keeps you from figuring out why your failing and correct it. A life lesson that all of us need to learn.
The problem is your generation allowed our colleges to push students to the left, so far as to make them progressives, starting in the early 60s. Then, you hired these graduates to teach in K-12 schools and now we have these progressives in government, school administrations and business. Our Constitution is doomed and so is the American experiment. Just a matter of time. Thanks for "watching the store".
Young people always think that they're wiser than their parents. The truth is though, that young people don't know much of anything about anything, for the simple reason that they haven't been around that long. A person born, say, in 1990, takes for granted things that were science fiction if not fantasy in 1949, the year I was bornтАФjust as I took for granted things that were unimaginable in 1900. The difference, perhaps, is that nowadays the ignorance of the young is privileged. They're encouraged to think that history began with them, that the past doesn't matter, and that they have the power to invent the world anew. To which I would reply, channeling William Faulkner: "The past isn't dead. It isn't even past."
The youth are inexperienced and the old are jaded, what are we to do?
Drink bourbon by a fire
I prefer Jamison Irish whiskey in my coffee; that way, IтАЩm a wide-awake drunk!