Hi! 👋 As an Ivy League graduate, I find it so incredibly disappointing what has happened to these schools. Not all students are the same obviously, so I don't believe anyone should generalize but rather look at the individual (if you're able to see them under the masks they cowardly wear, which I believe should be the first level of evaluation (and rejection :) ) for employers) to see their intelligence, accomplishments and skills. However, it seems that this generation of students (and not just at Ivy's) have a level of entitlement and lack of critical thinking that I find astounding. I believe that the Internet and social media is a factor in that as they have created mass thinking/mass formation psychosis....and to your point, their egos are being driven by their 1 second of social and mainstream media fame.
Excellent article! (and haha, no joke, I'm about to make some kimchi -- first time in about a year!)
Yes, this article isn't intended to be a generalized interpretation of college students, but I just didn't want to put a that qualifier throughout the article and just left it as being inferred. I doubt most students are involved in the protests one way or another.
I personally think students should protest but I'm just curious how much these students know regarding what they are protesting, or if they are just in it for the cause. It's easy to get caught up in these things because it makes you feel like you're part of a group and doing something meaningful when in reality you're probably not growing as an individual.
Enjoy the kimchi making! Man, I can't remember when I wrote that article but I'm amazed you remember!
I KNOW that those students don't know what they're protesting -- both in general and in specifics. I've seen videos of them saying they're going down to this or that school to protest and when asked, they have no idea what they're protesting about. AND then I bet if I asked them about the specifics of the Israel-Gaza war (as it is a war now ... Israel is exercising its right to self-defense and to rescue its hostages) -- what exactly is going on, the history beforehand, the Hamas charter and their desire to kill all Jews and infidels (includes westerners, i.e., most of them), etc. etc., I'm positive that none of them know. If they did, they wouldn't be protesting for what they think they're protesting for.
This article is a complete failure in not even reading history right. All the past student protests it references, stood on the right side of history. But that was not recognized by the ruling class then, just as it is not today. The students don’t care to know “how the world works” when all they see is their government slaughtering thousands of children through its proxy in the middle east. The kids are alright…listen to them for a change. Learn something about how the world should work, because the way it is currently “working” is unsustainable.
You mean the two that has happened in the past 10 years? But even then my point of the article isn't to just say that there are other things that students need to worry about, but if they are going to worry about this topic do you really think that they have spent enough time to actually do their own research and come to their own conclusions, or are they just following a trend and listening to whatever they get from the mainstream press and influencers online?
The same goes for all of these environmentalists destroying paintings and the like. How much do these people actually know of the thing they are fighting for? It's not about listening to children more than asking if these children have a grasp of what they are fighting about. I'm well-aware of this too because I was one of those students who went to a few protests and fell into that crowd. Not to this degree, but I was certainly one of those people who did what I was told because my friends told me to. I had no idea what I was talking about but that didn't matter.
The same goes here. If these students have formed their own opinions from their own research then by all means protest, but I'm not going to pretend that a large portion of these students aren't doing so because it's the popular thing to do, and certainly not because they'll be on "the right side of history".
Let’s assume you are correct, are you saying that if these students did their research, that they would stand for a genocide? That they would have no problem with the mass slaughter of children?
I’m not referring to the protests of the last 10 years. I’m referring to anti-war protests in our history.
Hi! 👋 As an Ivy League graduate, I find it so incredibly disappointing what has happened to these schools. Not all students are the same obviously, so I don't believe anyone should generalize but rather look at the individual (if you're able to see them under the masks they cowardly wear, which I believe should be the first level of evaluation (and rejection :) ) for employers) to see their intelligence, accomplishments and skills. However, it seems that this generation of students (and not just at Ivy's) have a level of entitlement and lack of critical thinking that I find astounding. I believe that the Internet and social media is a factor in that as they have created mass thinking/mass formation psychosis....and to your point, their egos are being driven by their 1 second of social and mainstream media fame.
Excellent article! (and haha, no joke, I'm about to make some kimchi -- first time in about a year!)
Gasp! You're one of them! 🤪
Yes, this article isn't intended to be a generalized interpretation of college students, but I just didn't want to put a that qualifier throughout the article and just left it as being inferred. I doubt most students are involved in the protests one way or another.
I personally think students should protest but I'm just curious how much these students know regarding what they are protesting, or if they are just in it for the cause. It's easy to get caught up in these things because it makes you feel like you're part of a group and doing something meaningful when in reality you're probably not growing as an individual.
Enjoy the kimchi making! Man, I can't remember when I wrote that article but I'm amazed you remember!
I remember because of my Ivy League education.
KIDDING!!!! (I just have a very good memory 🙃.)
I KNOW that those students don't know what they're protesting -- both in general and in specifics. I've seen videos of them saying they're going down to this or that school to protest and when asked, they have no idea what they're protesting about. AND then I bet if I asked them about the specifics of the Israel-Gaza war (as it is a war now ... Israel is exercising its right to self-defense and to rescue its hostages) -- what exactly is going on, the history beforehand, the Hamas charter and their desire to kill all Jews and infidels (includes westerners, i.e., most of them), etc. etc., I'm positive that none of them know. If they did, they wouldn't be protesting for what they think they're protesting for.
Great article🙂
This article is a complete failure in not even reading history right. All the past student protests it references, stood on the right side of history. But that was not recognized by the ruling class then, just as it is not today. The students don’t care to know “how the world works” when all they see is their government slaughtering thousands of children through its proxy in the middle east. The kids are alright…listen to them for a change. Learn something about how the world should work, because the way it is currently “working” is unsustainable.
"All the past student protests it references"
You mean the two that has happened in the past 10 years? But even then my point of the article isn't to just say that there are other things that students need to worry about, but if they are going to worry about this topic do you really think that they have spent enough time to actually do their own research and come to their own conclusions, or are they just following a trend and listening to whatever they get from the mainstream press and influencers online?
The same goes for all of these environmentalists destroying paintings and the like. How much do these people actually know of the thing they are fighting for? It's not about listening to children more than asking if these children have a grasp of what they are fighting about. I'm well-aware of this too because I was one of those students who went to a few protests and fell into that crowd. Not to this degree, but I was certainly one of those people who did what I was told because my friends told me to. I had no idea what I was talking about but that didn't matter.
The same goes here. If these students have formed their own opinions from their own research then by all means protest, but I'm not going to pretend that a large portion of these students aren't doing so because it's the popular thing to do, and certainly not because they'll be on "the right side of history".
Let’s assume you are correct, are you saying that if these students did their research, that they would stand for a genocide? That they would have no problem with the mass slaughter of children?
I’m not referring to the protests of the last 10 years. I’m referring to anti-war protests in our history.
This is what self-absorption is good for. That of the students, that is.