That’s right, this whole march in DC has all the trappings of a leftist jihad for a grand social revolution. Do you really think this is only about gun control? Lefty platitudes were wafting through the air like pot smoke in a Denver park. Demonization was rife, and lefty banalities had pride of place. Prudence and caution are not the stuff of youth politics.
Why is it so? Young people are flash-point thinkers. Thought seasoned with knowledge and experience is lacking. They think in extremes and superlatives, and react strongly to what they last saw or heard – very understandable for a witness to a massacre. But wise policy doesn’t arise out of the traumatized and incompletely schooled.
Half-digested buzzwords like “restorative justice” and “white privilege” were bandied about like a beach ball on the Florida sand. These kids are in the process of being mentally scarred from anything approaching serious contemplation. They will react with harsh words and contempt for anyone who disagrees, and it may forever stay with them. There are few things more dangerous than a young person filled with poorly-understood righteousness.
Watch this clip of the shouting down of Professor Bret Weinstein for emailing his disagreement about an activist-led “Day of Absence”.
Or this famous display of close-mindedness and shrieking directed at Yale Sociology Professor Christakis.
Don’t think for a moment that the March is a kids-and-their-parents thing. This isn’t youth soccer. It is big money and big adults ginning up the whole affair. If the kids are the spokesmen, they deserve to be challenged. As for the adults cheering on the spectacle, they need to be outed.
My rights are too important to be left to the immature and brazenly self-righteous.
Check out the photos of the ubiquitous outstretched clenched fist of David Hogg and others throughout history. The emphatic, incendiary gesture commonly goes with youth activism. It usually indicates a troubling stridency.
RogerG