This is a very bad path that we are on. I hope it is worth it to all of those on college faculties, in non-profits, etc.. We are losing the very fabric that holds this country together. Go to the best place on earth, inject ideas into peoples' heads to make them hate it, and ruin it. Probably half of Trump voters in 2016 couldn't stand the guy but wanted to give the middle finger to people like Tom Friedan (former head of CDC) who said something like systemic racism is a bigger health crisis than COVID-19 so protesting is OK. This country I am so sad about. There was nothing like it before and won't be again for a long time. The degradation was so self imposed and unnecessary. The recipe for success does not lie in emotion, but reason. Old wounds won't heal when you lick them. Reconciliation, if people really think that is what will happen with this new militant generation, only works when there is a legitimate common ground.
As I said, sow the wind reap the whirlwind. Colin Powell told Bush if he "broke it he owned it" regarding Iraq. If you young people break this country, you will obviously have to live here but what you own will be squat. Get it together, we have to leave Marx, the 60s, protest culture, eternal grievances, sensitivity to words, and the like behind. This is a hard world, and we only will succeed if we learn to focus on tomorrow and what we can do better. You cannot convince people of crap through a protest. It makes me disinclined to consider your point if you make it protesting, and the silent majority I suspect agrees.
As I said, sow the wind reap the whirlwind. Colin Powell told Bush if he "broke it he owned it" regarding Iraq. If you young people break this country, you will obviously have to live here but what you own will be squat. Get it together, we have to leave Marx, the 60s, protest culture, eternal grievances, sensitivity to words, and the like behind. This is a hard world, and we only will succeed if we learn to focus on tomorrow and what we can do better. You cannot convince people of crap through a protest. It makes me disinclined to consider your point if you make it protesting, and the silent majority I suspect agrees.
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