Comment by assimpleaspossi
8 days ago
What bothers me the most about all these protests and going-ons at universities and colleges is that they are generally by 18-22 year olds who are pre-adults still in their formative years who still have a lot of learning and growing up to do.
> who still have a lot of learning and growing up to do
I’m 60, and I have a fair bit of learning to do yet. And as the father of a student in roughly the 18-22 I would be proud to see her standing up for views that she feels strongly about whether her knowledge is fully complete or not.
Yes, i guess you'd be a proud father of a Cultural Revolution participant ... right until they send you to reeducation.
I suppose that means you don't know about the rich history of college protests that were instrumental in progressing human rights over the last 100 years?
It would be useful if you mentioned say a couple examples.
It would be even more useful if you were able to show that the effect of such student protests moving progress forward exceeded the effect of the student protests moving progress backward, like the Cultural or Iranian Revolutions. I think you'd not be able to show it.
OK. Does that mean you think they shouldn't protest because they're naive, or that people (especially in government) shouldn't be freaking out so much when they do protest?
What bothers me is the ageist assumption that "full-adults", say, boomers, are somehow more educated, less indoctrinated, or less prejudiced than young adults
Pretty sure that this wasn't implied. It's more about being "life wise".