This week we celebrated Veterans Day, and social media has been filled with stories, pictures and expressions of deep appreciation for those who have served their country. Our armed forces are the very embodiment of love, service and real diversity: men and women, of all races and ethnicities, who practice any number of religions (or none). We thank those who survived and remember those who did not.
Against this noble backdrop, we have also seen the Pageant of Petulant Children and their Tempest-in-a-Teapot Tantrums play out on college campuses, most notably and recently (but by no means exclusively) at the University of Missouri and Yale University.
Oh, the irony.
Young, free, healthy people, receiving an excellent education at some of the country’s finest colleges and universities, are protesting, starving themselves, demanding the resignation of faculty and administrators, insisting upon “apologies†for perceived wrongs (to be written in terms that would make Pol Pot proud) and screaming at anyone who will listen that they don’t think their places of learning are “safe spaces.â€
There are many places across the globe – and even in the United States – that are legitimately unsafe. Yale and the University of Missouri – or, for that matter, most college campuses – are not among them.
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