An Entitled Generation of Protesters, by Douglas Andrews
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By Douglas Andrews, Patriot Post, July 31, 2020
When it comes to parenting, we reap what we sow, as can be seen among rioting adolescents.
Antifa is mostly young, mostly male, mostly white, mostly privileged, and thoroughly despicable. But these thugs also have something else in common: leftism. There are no MAGA hats in an antifa mob.
Another thing these anarchists may have in common is a rotten upbringing — either by their parents, or by their educational system, or by their community at large. Or by all three.
As The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh asks, “What happens when you take a generation of people, carefully instill in them an overriding sense of entitlement, give them lives of immeasurable comfort and ease, grant them every right and liberty known to man, but then at the same time tell them, somehow, incredibly, that they are oppressed — and then finally, after decades of this sort of schizophrenic conditioning, grant them free rein to express their confused and unearned rage in whatever way they desire, including felony vandalism and assault?” ….
