{"id":126224,"date":"2015-11-13T05:52:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T11:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=126224"},"modified":"2015-11-13T05:52:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T11:52:05","slug":"kids-these-days-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=126224","title":{"rendered":"Kids These Days Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/kids-these-days-explained\/?utm_source=feedly&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=kids-these-days-explained\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The working theory is that the students are of a generation raised by helicopter in a therapeutic culture \u2013 in shorthand, they lack the very basic coping skills that most everyone in generations previous developed as of course. Rather than \u201cwalking off\u201d a skinned knee or saying \u201csticks and stones\u201d in response to a bully\u2019s insult, they\u2019re acculturated to appeal to authority for attention, protection, and justice (revenge).<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2013 see, for example, the theories of \u201cprivilege\u201d and \u201cmicro-agressions.\u201d (Putting those words in quotes is likely an expression of my \u201cprivilege\u201d while also serving as a \u201cmicro-agression.\u201d)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. The working theory is that the students are of a generation raised by helicopter in a therapeutic culture \u2013 in shorthand, they lack the very basic coping skills that most everyone in generations previous developed as of course. Rather than \u201cwalking off\u201d a skinned knee or saying \u201csticks and stones\u201d in response to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126225,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126224\/revisions\/126225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}