‘Why Being a Foster Child Made Me a Conservative’
1st June 2018
Rob Henderson testifies.
Last year, a fellow student told me I was a victim. Yale is the only place where someone has said this to me. I responded that if someone had told me I was a victim when I was a kid, I would never have made it to the Air Force, where I served for eight years, or to Yale. I would have given up. When I was 10, a teacher told me that if I applied myself, I could alter my future. This advice changed my life. From my response, my fellow student inferred that I was not as progressive as him. As our conversation unfolded, he asked, “What does it actually mean to be a conservative?”
For me, the answer is that people who came before us weren’t stupid. They were stunted in many ways. But not in every way. Older people have insights worthy of our attention.
Yale is full of victims these days, hugely entitled ones. But every now and then you run across somebody like Rob.
June 2nd, 2018 at 05:20
Damn, Tim, I clicked on that without checking. You need to issue a warning if you’re going to link to the NYT!
June 2nd, 2018 at 15:25
Didn’t know that was an issue. I’ll be more careful in future.