Where were the adults in all this? Why was the youth allowed to have or obtain weapons of any sort -- assault or otherwise -- after having been ejected from school for violent threats? Why were his social media postings not being tracked by the police? The kids all knew there was a problem. Again, where were the adults -- not just the police, or even the politicians, but all the adults? They didn't watch Cruz, who was clearly mental ill and clearly evil. They didn't secure the school, although there had been so many school killings since Columbine. They abdicated.
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This abdication of adult and, quite often, parental responsibility is rampant in today's America. This is not just due to the runaway epidemic of political correctness in our culture and its easy disparagement of traditional values. It is the Chinese Cultural Revolution-style violence that this behavior engenders. The Princeton students terrified to defend Professor Rosen in his class were not all that different from the panicked Parkland students fleeing Cruz. The Princetonians were scared for their lives to pipe up.
But what of a solution? It's not enough to proclaim "if you see something, say something." Unless you do something about what people say they have seen, unless they're sure you will, you are hanging them out to dry, just as the Parkland kids were hung out. You're not encouraging them to do it again.
From Parkland to Princeton, America's Adults Abdicate Responsibility
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This abdication of adult and, quite often, parental responsibility is rampant in today's America. This is not just due to the runaway epidemic of political correctness in our culture and its easy disparagement of traditional values. It is the Chinese Cultural Revolution-style violence that this behavior engenders. The Princeton students terrified to defend Professor Rosen in his class were not all that different from the panicked Parkland students fleeing Cruz. The Princetonians were scared for their lives to pipe up.
But what of a solution? It's not enough to proclaim "if you see something, say something." Unless you do something about what people say they have seen, unless they're sure you will, you are hanging them out to dry, just as the Parkland kids were hung out. You're not encouraging them to do it again.
From Parkland to Princeton, America's Adults Abdicate Responsibility