DISCLAIMER: While I do not have a degree in Psychiatry, I do possess in excess of 60 plus years of life experience and what some would describe as an over-abundance of common horse sense.
The acronym Gen Z has been given to that portion of our population, which is pre-teen through twenty-six years of age.
Tens of thousands and possibly hundreds of thousands of photographs were taken at the famed Nazi Concentration Camps when the forces of General George Patton and other Commanders entered and liberated these killing zones back in the spring of 1945. It would be Adolf Eichmann, Joseph Goebbels, and Heinrich Himmler, whom Adolf Hitler tasked with carrying out this genocide of an entire race of humanity. Names such as Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau would go down in history as some of the darkest imprints of human suffering in global history.
After World War II, trials were held for war crimes against many of Hitler’s SS officials. According to history, over 3,000 tons of documents to prove these war crimes were submitted as evidence to convict many of the perpetrators of these heinous acts against their victims. Amongst these documents were the diaries of Joseph Goebbels. In his diary was this entry: 4 February 1942: “The Führer once again expressed his determination to clean up the Jews in Europe pitilessly. There must be no squeamish sentimentalism about it. The Jews have deserved the catastrophe that has now overtaken them. Their destruction will go hand in hand with the destruction of our enemies. We must hasten this process with cold ruthlessness.“
Yet with the mountains and train loads of hard evidence that the Nazi Regime carried out the mass slaughter of millions of innocent people, we have a nearly entire generation of young people who deny that this epic tragedy occurred. Never mind that countless Jewish survivors immigrated to America after the war to tell their horrific stories of survival. Never mind that thousands of GIs returned to tell of what they witnessed and how they vomited when entering the prison camps. Some of these would even include General Patton himself, who ordered much of the video footage, which is still archived to this day. He stated that these crimes against humanity must be recorded in film and photos so this never happens again.
Almost unbelievably, to some degree, it is happening again.
Today, at Universities across America, students are protesting over the war in the Gaza Strip in Israel. At Columbia University, Jewish students are having their lives threatened simply because they are Jewish. Cornell University is another, and the list goes on.
At this juncture, one has to ask the question: Why are American young people becoming so anti-Semitic and supporting a terrorist organization that is hell-bent on destroying Israel?
My Theory—OPINION
The first and most logical explanation is America’s education system at the high school level and possibly even at the Collegiate level. We have known for some time that the Department of Education was diluting our education curriculum at most levels in our education system. Just as many high schools are now teaching the 1619 Project (this curriculum teaches that America was founded as a slave state to enrich Europe and not as a refuge for freedom of religion), which is totally rewritten and bogus history, it has to go without question that the “Holocaust” is being left out of history classes or very lightly glossed over.
Is leaving out this dark and grotesque part of human history because anti-Semitic professors don’t want to teach it, or is it because they feel the fragility of the student’s emotional capacity is incapable of dealing with the images and subject matter?
Some of the most revered coaches in American history are the toughest. Bear Bryant, who coached the University of Alabama to multiple national championships, was known as a tyrant on the football field. In fact, Bear Bryant was so tough (even as a player) that he once played a game against the University of Tennessee with a partially broken leg. He, of course, carried this toughness into his coaching days. Ironically, as tough as The Bear was, he was revered and loved by nearly all of his players. They respected him because he used this toughness to bring out the best in his players. He did not pass out participation trophies; he made you earn his accolades.
And herein lies the problem with today’s American youth. They are soft, and they are weak, both mentally and physically. Most who seek the military today cannot because they are too overweight and too soft. They cannot even pass the enlistment physicals to go to boot camp and get into shape. They have been given a soft life. To the point that most cannot even read at their proper grade level. We so cherished their mental health that we have crippled our children with pampering rather than training and teaching them to become self-reliant and decent members of society.
To properly garner self-respect and a belief in yourself, you must overcome things in life that you didn’t believe you could achieve. Now, you have a belief in yourself. Now, you have the tools necessary to grow and go forward in life with a belief that you can do this. Now, you possess a work ethic. An example is graduating from Marine Corps BootCamp.
There was a time when Marine Corps BootCamp was only survived by the tough. After three days, you were honestly wondering if you could survive and live through this. The Drill Sergeants made you complete that obstacle course. They screamed, slapped, and punched you until you accomplished it. Today? Today, the recruits hold up little cards that say “STRESS” if the Sergeants are in your face and you can’t handle it. In the old days, on graduation day, you were the proudest person alive, and your chest stuck out just a little bit further because of what you had accomplished. You were now a Marine, the toughest and most feared military fighter in the world.
Today as you see these powder-puff children protesting on behalf of terrorists who slaughtered innocent babies in their beds, raped women on the streets, burned people’s homes, and tortured the elderly, you may want to reprimand them and teach them the error of their ways. It is utterly despicable that our youth are protesting on behalf of animals who commit war crimes and hate people just because they have a different religious belief.
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I agree 100%
Today’s youth is a embarrassing example of American failure . From high school to college they literally learn nothing about being adults. Foreign enemies have infiltrated our establishments and the so called professors are implanting propaganda, all by design, that’s the democratic way
Everything expressed in this article reflects my thoughts exactly. I was in the military during Desert Storm and as a 58 year old woman, I think I could run circles around any entitled Gen Z recruit. However, there’s no one to blame but their parents. I raised my daughters with rules, expectations and consequences and they are productive, self employed, respectful citizens with kind hearts. The weak children in todays world have been handed everything without having had to put the work in. Hollywood parents have gone so far as to commit crimes to get their kids into Universities they didn’t earn their way into. When kids struggle in school, the bar is lowered under the guise of racism. Our adversaries aren’t lowering the bar. They expect excellence and achievement and don’t reward failure. The only plus in this entire generation is that most of the ones who fall into the weak, entitled category are also the ones not procreating.
Your depiction of what the educational system has wrought is so right on. As a Marine Corps veteran who went through boot camp in the mid 50’s and experienced that pride and toughness that shaped my life, I find it hard to believe that this has happened to our once proud nation. What a disgrace gen Z and those that raised them are. I
Thanks for shining a light on this.