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"Rebellious teenagers always want to establish independence from their parents" The rebelliousness of college students seems so obvious to me. Everyone here u
by throwawayjava 7y ago
"Rebellious teenagers always want to establish independence from their parents"
The rebelliousness of college students seems so obvious to me. Everyone here using youthful behavior (almost all in their teens and early twenties) to bash their favorite bogeyman group (usually composed of much older people) is missing the completely obvious.
- Throwaway_3854 7y ago>The rebelliousness of college students seems so obvious to me. Everyone here using youthful behavior (almost all in their teens and early twenties) to bash their favorite bogeyman group (usually composed of much older people) is missing the completely obvious. What do you mean?
- throwawayjava 7y agoI mean that 18 year olds at Yale are... 18 year olds. Protests have been a regular fixture on college campuses (including non-elite campuses) for at least 50 years. Including times when the elite/the country had "purpose". Kent, Ohio isn't exactly New Haven or Cambridge... Youthful rebellion is as old as time, and arguably isn't even unique to humans. Therefore, grounding a sweeping societal critique in any particular mode of youthful rebellion (be it political protest or inane partying) seems a bit... silly.