As someone now over 50, I’m required by federal law to complain about the younger generation.
Except, generations are monolithic. They experience some of the same traumas or same shifts in culture that may shape them, but it doesn’t shape them all in the same way. For example, I’m Gen X. The internet changed us to some degree, but we’re not all shaped in the same manner.
And with college-age kids in this day and age, they’re not all the same.
This is good because if they were all this fragile, I’d be calling for a nuclear war to hit the reset button on humanity. After all, we went wrong somewhere along the way.
Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk hosted a voter registration drive at ASU this week with, he says, "MASSIVE turnout." There were also some turning stomachs if the overwrought responses from some overly sensitive young adults are to be believed.
And believe me, you'll have trouble believing them.
Facebook user Kaylie got the ball rolling when she commented, "I was soo distrubed seeing all the MAGA hats everywhere today [grumpy face emoji] confused why there was so many and when I found where they got them from [I puked emoji].
SOMEBODY IS SELLING MAGA HATS ON CAMPUS — CALL THE WHAAAAAMBULANCE!
"made my stomach turn a lil tbh," Ava confessed in her reply.
"To think i almost went to school there," and "No I literally gagged," and "i'm scared," all quickly followed.
The kids are not all right.
It was far from all the kids at Arizona State University, obviously. However, the fact that anyone could be this triggered by people simply disagreeing is both laughable and alarming.
Part of it is that Trump has been so demonized that any symbol of his campaign is a horror to behold for these people, but that only goes so far. You can only be this terrified if you’ve been conditioned to be fragile.
See, it starts with a noble intention. The goal is to try to end—or at least reduce—people’s suffering. We start with things like hunger, disease, poverty, bigotry, and other serious, legitimate issues. People start to understand that if there’s a problem, someone will want to fix it.
So enterprising sociopaths and narcissists decide to capitalize on this. They start trying to expand what is being “addressed” by pretending things they don’t like are causing suffering. They didn’t go too far, not at first, so it seemed reasonable.
Others jumped on the bandwagon because, well, things weren’t sparkly for them, and the cycle continued.
Now, just showing support for the other candidate is horrifying. They’re saying they felt physically ill, which I actually believe. But the problem lies in their heads, not in anything truly physical.
When you’ve grown up believing that words are violence and simply disagreeing is a personal attack, it’s hard for you to comprehend that people can think differently and not be terrible people.
They’ve been rewarded by their teachers and schools all their lives for this very behavior. That reward has simply been to silence those they disagree with, but that’s enough for them. They’re happy with that. In return, that behavior is just reinforced. Psychologically, they simply expect people to be forced to comply because they don’t like something.
Then, when people clearly don’t give a damn about their feelings, they react like this, complete with physical symptoms.
Why?
Because they know they can’t win in the war of ideas. They know they can’t articulate why they’re right. They’re so used to bullying and intimidating people with absolutely nothing to back it up besides our good natures and a desire not to let people suffer that when they see signs it’s ending, they can’t deal with it.
And it is ending.
While no one likes to see suffering as a general thing, a large chunk of the population is just sick and tired of the crybullies and their attempts to use their feelings to tell you what to think and say.
Of course, I should note that this isn’t exclusive to college kids. This seems to go up and down the generational ladder. This is just the latest example of the twerps melting down completely because someone somewhere won’t bend the knee and kiss their posteriors.
Frankly, I want to see if we can do it to such extremes that they all slip into comas.
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It's more than being afraid of opposing opinions. They have been persuaded that Trump really is as evil
as Hitler and so are his supporters, whom they regard as cult followers.