Berkeley: The Confluence of Myopic Idealism and Reality | NewsReal Blog: "Young, enormously privileged college students are yet again exercising their latest favored entitlement: Fomenting mass unrest and destroying property because they just don’t feel they should have to pay for the generous benefits rightfully afforded to them by their welfare state utopia.
The Berkeley “struggle” is comical. Students, undoubtedly stoked by their increasingly irrelevant, dried-up leftist faculty mentors, invoke language of a bygone era to elevate what is little more than a puerile fit over tuition hikes to something like protesting war or racial segregation. In reality, there could be no better display of bourgeois selfishness, as the Wall Street Journal notes,
“We have here the vocabulary of the peace movement, of the struggle for decent conditions for migrants and other exploited workers, and of the civil-rights movement. Yet what did the protesters demand? Peace? Human rights? No. Money. And for whom? For the downtrodden and oppressed? No. For themselves.”"
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