Why did their parents do such a piss poor job instilling Western values? Why were they so indifferent that they let radicals take over their children's schools and teach their kids such terrible values and beliefs?
It's 100 percent on the parents. Millennials are a product of what we've raised them to be. And they're not all like that - it's a broad brush for sure, just like everything else.
Basically, from what I've seen, the issue of human nature is that the people who are most emotional or invested in something tend to be the people on the extreme, because they're the ones most motivated to change things because everything is so much farther from where they want it to be. And the middle is more than happy to let the gung ho people handle the work, so that fringe 10-20 percent invariably is handling the teaching, the journalism, the local government, civic organizations, all the avenues that allow you to Affect Change. Progressives will always gravitate toward careers that allow them to shape opinions, because that's their goal.
Add to that the very real element of guilt that progressives can tap into... there's no question that we hesitate to shut down special interest groups who can make emotional appeals. We tend to cut them some slack because we figure that their hearts are in the right place and they're good people, and all that. And frankly, there are some legitimate issues that they may tap into.
Then combine with the fact that so much of the issues have to do with information that's put into textbooks and lesson plans, things that parents won't see unless they look for it. If I ever have kids, I feel like I'm going to have to sit with them and read their homework with them because who knows at this point what they're being told. And then there are the things that teachers are just going to say. I remember my english studies teacher was pretty liberal, and wasn't shy about showing it, but fortunately she wasn't as militant about pounding it into people.
But you know I also think that we've basically lost the ability to articulate "Western Values" as opposed to Eastern values. What are they? Why are they great? How did those things make this nation successful - and more to the point, why would they have succeeded even without the flaws and failings i.e. slavery? We have a generation that has been taught that everything we did happened because we enslaved people, and there's no attempt to contextualize that or even to be accurate about it. We talk about slavery as if it was something completely unique to this nation, completely associated with whites and "minorities" - which of course doesn't make sense on a global scale anyway. So no one knows what it means to be influenced by Western thought other than it apparently makes you racist and willing to exploit other people.
Basically, we're being taught about our history by people who hate our history and see it in the most negative light possible. And then we wonder why the idea of standing for the anthem is all of a sudden controversial, or why the ACLU thinks it's offensive that we use the word "American" in an SOTU address, or why chanting "USA" should be considered threatening to minorities - even legal ones.
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