“I was anxious. I always felt guilty. I couldn't stop thinking about white privilege.”
That's how much Lucy Cross earned as a student at Stanford University ($76,312 in annual tuition, room and board). She soon realizes that she has been tricked and intellectually abused – as has Kimi Katiti, an undergraduate student.
It was at the California Institute of Art that Katiti was abused, and her indoctrination there was nothing like Cross's.
As a young black woman, she learned that she was a “victim.”
“When I was 18, I was full of self-confidence. But it fell apart while I was in college,” Katiti told StosselTV. “I learned about ideas such as microaggressions.”
“For example, if someone brought a dog and I saw the dog barking at me, that could be interpreted as a racist microaggression on both the dog's part and the dog walker's part. ” she elaborated. “I thought the world was much darker than I expected.”
Given this, is it any wonder that most “mentally ill” people are left-wing, as some evidence suggests? The vast majority of young, liberal white women are diagnosed with “mentally ill” Is it surprising that this is happening?
Welcome to modern higher education. There, iniquity masquerades as insight, bigotry masquerades as prudence, racism masquerades as pragmatism, and a de facto cult masquerades as a university.
New report but now an old problem
In his 1987 book, The Closing of the American Mind, philosopher Alan Bloom criticized higher education for “impoverishing” the souls of students. Now reporter John Stossel is sharing his own critique of academia in a new documentary, “The Spoiling of the American Heart.''
The website for the film, which features, among other things, the aforementioned two young women, provides the following synopsis:
In 2012, anxiety, depression, and suicide rates among young people began to rise dramatically, and no one knew why.
THE CODDLING OF THE AMERICAN MIND… explores the mental health of Gen Z through the stories of five remarkable twenty-somethings, including Kimi, a Ugandan immigrant, and Lucy, a former psychiatric ward patient who struggles with a variety of mental health issues. Explore the health crisis. When they enter college, their bright futures are quickly overshadowed by fear and despair.
They enter college full of expectations, but the teens quickly succumb to paranoia and misery. Lucy is convinced that people are trying to kill her simply because she is autistic. You are on the verge of becoming homeless.
…THE CODDLING OF THE AMERICAN MIND explores the global mental health crisis that threatens an entire generation.
kneel to the cult
Interestingly, Cross and Katiti both confessed that they felt the indoctrination was wrong, but followed it anyway. “I wanted to compete and get the best grades. I wanted to impress my professors and show them how much of a victim I was,” Katiti said. She found this disturbing, but elaborated: So they definitely teach me some sort of golden rule of life. ”
In an example of indoctrination, two young women were told that commentator Ben Shapiro's ideology was not harmfully arousing. At Stanford, Cross was “taught that Shapiro's ideas endangered black, brown, transgender, queer, and Muslim students,” Stossel said.
“My first thought was, this is extreme. This is ridiculous,” Cross said. “And in a way, there was this idea that you're privileged, you're white.” So she drank the Kool-Aid. She accepted the concept of “good” in school. Cross said this means she doesn't “read too many books by white authors or listen to the wrong kind of music.” “I really struggled with the rap because I didn’t know if it was plagiarism or appreciation.”
In fact, Cross even altered her speech to gain acceptance. “When I started using vocabulary like marginalized, intersectional, hegemonic, blah, blah, blah, people just smiled a little bit,” she said. “And I…started to feel like I was part of an inner group.”
This group acceptance motive is particularly effective for young women who instinctively seek social approval. This may partly explain why women are far more left-wing than men in today's universities.
From words to actions
These cult victims are also often inspired to take action. Consider what happened after Katiti became paranoid about Shapiro. She “joined the mob trying to have Mr. Shapiro blocked from posting on Twitter,” Stossel said. “She continued to send complaints to Twitter's censors.”
“I sat all night,” Katiti explained of what sounded like an obsession. “I'll try again. Please try again.”
There's more to Stossel's segment, but the important thing here is to understand what this “awakening” actually represents. That's not just stupid. It's not just wrong; And the worst thing about it is not that it causes psychological distress to students, but it is bad. Rather, this false teaching is an attack on all that is great and good. It seeks to destroy the wisdom accumulated over thousands of years, especially the understanding of Christian virtue.
Let's think about forgiveness. The West began emphasizing it because we learned through hard and bloody lessons that vindictiveness can destroy civilizations. (Thus, it is central to the Lord's Prayer.) But awakening is actually an evil, emphasizing the opposite of forgiveness. It stirs up raw emotions, tells people they are being wronged when in fact they have not, and creates frustration.
An example from Mr. Stossel's video and elsewhere is telling a black person, “Wow, you're so articulate!” That's “microaggression.” Regardless of the stupidity of this claim, what is happening here is that students are learning to see the worst in things. This goes against the virtues of kindness, charity, and prudence. In theological circles, we call that a hasty judgment. It's a sin.
Much more could be said about how this indoctrination fosters vice. However, while leftists sometimes object to conservatives' use of the word “woke” as inappropriate, this is true.
Anything that promotes the opposite of truth is not just wrong. Again, it's pure evil.
The sweet parts of Stossel's American Mind are as follows.
