As with all historic tipping points, it seems inevitable in retrospect: Of course it was the young people, the actual victims of the slaughter, who have finally begun to turn the tide against guns in this country. Kids don’t have money and can’t vote, and until now burying a few dozen a year has apparently been a price that lots of Americans were willing to pay to hold onto the props of their pathetic role-playing fantasies. But they forgot what adults always forget: that our children grow up, and remember everything, and forgive nothing.
One of my students once asked me, when I was teaching the writing of political op-ed essays, why adults should listen to anything young people had to say about the world. My answer: because they’re afraid of you. They don’t understand you. And they know you’re going to replace them.
My message, as an aging Gen X-er to millennials and those coming after them, is: Go get us. Take us down — all those cringing provincials who still think climate change is a hoax, that being transgender is a fad or that “socialism” means purges and re-education camps. Rid the world of all our outmoded opinions, vestigial prejudices and rotten institutions. Gender roles as disfiguring as foot-binding, the moribund and vampiric two-party system, the savage theology of capitalism — rip it all to the ground.
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
Protesters at The Evergreen State College last year. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
The Evergreen State College has decided to move on from their annual Day of Absence, months after the movement potentially caused irreparable damage to the school’s reputation.
Last year, activists demanded white students and staffers leave campus so that students of color could talk about racism, privilege, and other Progressive hot topics. But Bret Weinstein refused. Though he is himself a Progressive, he found this ask to be counter-productive. And for that, he was hounded, harassed, and essentially held hostage.
He would later settle a lawsuit with the school.
Now, the school, via a statement to the Olympian, announced they’re moving on. Sort of.
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