A co-worker much younger than myself asked if I could recommend any non-fiction books. After thinking on it part of the day, I saw him passing by and mentioned to him DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL by Anne Frank. The first words out of his mouth were "Fuck that bitch."
Needless to say, I was taken aback. He proceeded to ask me what's so great about it. I told him basically the way it was written, and the conditions under which it was produced. He then proceeded to tell me, "Big deal. What about ICE agents fucking with Mexicans?"
Sure, so he's a Latino. I can see him having that beef with ICE. But this kid is either ignorant of history or stupid, which seems to be the case with many of our young people these days. That's really no excuse. If you are open to rational thought, then you know that all human experience is linked. But there is no excuse for writing off the purposeful extermination of six million people with the words, "Yeah, but ICE..." Which is basically what my co-worker did when he said of Anne Frank, "Fuck that bitch."
In order to get through the rest of my day, I put it in perspective by looking at him and thinking, "This from another genius who stares into his phone all day... and is so addicted to gambling, he's placing bets while he's supposed to be working."
There is a youtube channel called "Liberal Hivemind." They frequently show full grown adults acting like children. Case in point, video from yesterday, city council meeting. Citizen asking about honesty of mayor (mayor appoints known criminal to city manager position) and the mayor just loses it, gets up, starts screaming, and among other things says "You wanna go outside, right now?!?!"
In the same video, college Republicans have a card table set up on college square at center of campus. Guy in a dress walks up and starts making angry accusations, then overturns the card table and storms off like a nine year old.
In a video from 9 days ago, female swimmer Riley Gaines is addressing an on campus group about the whole trans male breaking into female sports subject when an anthroplogy professor walks in the room and tries to steal her thunder. Riley asks the prof "If, one hundred years from now they dig up a pair of skeletons, could they tell which one is male and which one is female?" He replies "No", at which point, the room bursts into laughter. The prof actually has the temerity to get angry.
And I wish I could remember the channel where I saw this: Conservatine group on campus has silent protest on college square. Angry female student, actually seen by campus cop, not 25 feet away, sees the angry female rip the sign out of their hands. As the cop and students pursue her, they finally reach her at the back end of the square. Apparently, there is like a 25-30 foot drop and she attempts to chuck the sign over the fence. The campus cop not only stops her, but also arrests her. Crying as she's being cuffed for theft, she says, "But you're supposed to be on our side."