This essay recognizes the problem calling it the rise of the "kindergarchy." Diana West published her book Death of The Grown-up in 2007.
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Could college students cocooned on today’s morally confused campuses appreciate such stridency in defense of liberty, or would they banish Patton as they have other unfashionable voices, including former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice?
“We’ll win this war,” Patton proclaimed, “by fighting and showing the Germans that we’ve got more guts than they have. ... We’re not going to just shoot the bastards; we’re going to rip out their living goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”
Responding more fearlessly than today’s campus “cry bullies” could fathom, Patton’s troops helped crush Nazism while others extinguished Imperial Japan, ending tyrannical threats to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Seven decades after winning World War II, the greatest threat to individual rights is not Islamic radicalism but a fading commitment to bedrock democratic values — free expression, equality under the law and pluralism.
As Abraham Lincoln understood, “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
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Oscar Wilde once observed how America’s youth “are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.” Proving Wilde’s point, 40 percent of millenials support government restrictions on offensive speech, according to a recent Pew poll, compared with 12 percent of seniors.
That America’s youth disproportionately favor speech suppression explains headline-grabbing campus meltdowns and refusals by Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld to perform for students too sensitive to take a joke.
http://www.aspentimes.com/opinion/19418879-113/sturm-kindergarchy-and-our-clash-of-civilizations
Melanie Sturm
Think Again
December 3, 2015
Sturm: Kindergarchy and our clash of civilizations
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