Kids These Days Explained
13th November 2015
The working theory is that the students are of a generation raised by helicopter in a therapeutic culture – in shorthand, they lack the very basic coping skills that most everyone in generations previous developed as of course. Rather than “walking off” a skinned knee or saying “sticks and stones” in response to a bully’s insult, they’re acculturated to appeal to authority for attention, protection, and justice (revenge).
At the same time, overt racial and other discrimination and expressions thereof having receded, a need arose to find racial or sexist offense in innocuous statements and neutral acts for the Left to maintain fuel for its resentment politics – see, for example, the theories of “privilege” and “micro-agressions.” (Putting those words in quotes is likely an expression of my “privilege” while also serving as a “micro-agression.”)