Stop the federal guarantee of student loans. If colleges didn't get a guaranteed stream of revenue, they'd have to act like a business and their decisions would be subject to repercussions.
The government shouldn't pay off student loans that can't get a job because of useless degrees. Let the college that puts out useless degrees pay off the debt. University have billions of dollars.
Or make them merit based. You'd have to be in the top 20% of your Jr and Senior high school class to qualify. Many of these kid who get sucked into this don't belong in college anyway. The critical thinking skills of young Americans are abysmal these days.
John’s the biggest professional victim there is, he sued a professional fighter for hundreds of thousands of a simple slap, after John poke prodded and disrespected the man’s profession
He mentioned that, after 2012, there was a big change. It's interesting that my wife saw her first interviewee come to the interview with her parents, in 2014.
I think quite a few want to be unemployable. They are gambling that the rest of us will take care of them for life rather than watch them reap the rewards of their decisions. That is a REALLY bad bet in my case.
Yeah, I was taught that growing up. But these days they change it to Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will hurt forever. I'm not lying, I see it on plenty of social media platforms. It's fucking ridiculous.
When I was a kid we were told sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me. It seems like we were build differently in the 80’s but we weren’t, we weren’t brainwashed. They’re setting these young people up for failure.
Actually they are setting these kids up to trust the government/academia for everything in their lives, trying to promote campuses as a Safe Space. The current administration tried to start this process in grade school with the promotion of 'alternative' sexuality, to also help start weaning young minds away from their 'restrictive parents' and into the arms of a benevolent and understanding, 'protective' State. Brainwashing, throughout history has ALWAYS started best in the schools.
Graduated high school in 2015 here, went to college for few semesters but couldn't continue🙋🏻♂️ "queerness of the internet" CLASS? By all means I am no expert nor do I wave my high school diploma around trying to be a smartass, but what skills am I supposed to pull from a class like that?😅 I agree with the others, ask- no DEMAND a refund and put a petition to remove that class😁
This is SPOT ON as usual. Imagine raising your child to have a victim mentality instead of teaching them about reality, how to deal with reality, how to work hard, how to deal with rude people, how to have confidence, and how to find a path to happiness and success... As opposed to literally teaching kids they have no chance because of some immutable characteristics... It is literally abuse!!!
The example of Kimmie is one of [sadly] not preparing a child for college very well. For my kid, I instructed this approach: it's enemy territory. Get in, get it, and get out: take what you want, but know there's a phalanx of neo-marxists peppered about education that are well practiced in deceptions. Take a look at staff/employee policy: it reveals who the administrators really are. [In many cases they are remote, residing in some state office like Sacramento and local titles are automatons wielding not much more than cafeteria decisions]. Read 5 or 6 books on any subject *before* day one of class, or you'll get taken for a ride. Any pre-war publications are like double credit in terms of parsing context and discovering distortions inside sometimes opaque curriculum.
I am in my 25th year of teaching in K-12 schools. What has happened over the course of a quarter century disgusts me. Those of us who don’t jump on board the crazy train have to mute ourselves all day around colleagues. I got pushed out of a school I’d been at for nine years when a new administrator dropped into my home room and I wasn’t leading one of the stupid therapy sessions required of all homeroom teachers, but which none of us were qualified to lead. SEL - Social / Emotional Learning. I’m a Spanish teacher, why am I supposed to be conducting group therapy?
I escaped the public school system forever in 2011 (after only 12 years), while I still could. Best decision I've ever made. Unfortunately for people like yourself, it is not so easy to change careers this late in the game. I hope you can make it to retirement with your sanity intact. Best of luck to you.
27 years in and I still love to teach, but SEL, constant PD sessions about victimhood and how to counsel it (taking away time to plan and grade), then having to memorize 180 names, preferred names, preferred pronouns, and whether the parent knows about said preferences has made the last ten years increasingly miserable. No wonder so few young people stay in this profession. When I began teaching the word I heard constantly was "rigor"...I haven't heard it in a meeting or PD in years.
It's gaslighting and its un-American. People seem to forget: black colleges were built to do something for their kids and following generations - not to whine over "privilege" or other nonsense. They just... did it. And isn't *that* the American way? On privilege, I note the only real one is government: special health care, royal pensions, deferred compensation programs to avoid AMT [when they do work], and on and on. To distract from the ongoing looting, politicians and their fellow travelers would have us at each others throats so they can continue.
"Back in my day" - I'm 61, so that would be the 70's, 80's and 90's when I went from my teens through my twenties - it would have been viewed as embarrassing to view yourself as a victim unless you truly were. You would have been laughed at and marginalized as you would have deserved.
No. My husband is a 65yr old quadriplegic. It was embarrassing to see yourself as a victim even if you were one. People would get mad if you treated them as victims or called them such. Think about calling people survivors, that came about because they were so mad about being called victims, even though they were
Women's groups were doing that back then and no one laughed, they got nervous smiles and nods from men who refuse to hurt a woman's feelings by calling her out.
@@goodolearkygal5746 Now it's a competition for who can be the biggest victim. They list off all their made up flaws desperately seeking attention and sympathy. It's so weird.
We have become such an obscenely weak nation. I pray we’re near the bottom of this slope we’ve slipped down. The next 3-4 generations will have a very tough go of it, if they are to build America back up to greatness.
Most Satanists don't believe in Satan as an actual being. In fact, most Satanists are atheists and practice Satanism as an ideological way of behaving in the world. The only ones it seems who believe in Satan as a malevolent entity are the organized religions. Who provided the human written religious texts to fool them? It is almost comical.
That's true. A lot of professors have simply stayed in academia from the start going through multiple post doctoral research positions and becoming an assistant professor and just staying in the university system to get tenure. It's actually harder in many fields to go from industry back into academics because universities will favor those who stayed in the system and "paid their dues" by doing ten years or more of underpaid post doctoral work instead of moving on to higher paid industry positions but the problem is then the universities are lacking in people with real world experience and in some fields of study there is no real world "industry" applications and while fields that are purely research and knowledge driven can be good there's also far too much room for abuse and meaningless sophistry that actually contributes nothing of value to humankind's collect knowledge.
This is why I'm not only homeschooling my kids, but also encouraging them to take up trades instead of pursuing liberal arts. Save a lot of money, learn valuable skills, and bypass the brainwashing. Win-win-win all around.
As a union plumber I think you're doing your kids a real service for promoting trade schools. I went through a 5 year apprenticeship and didn't owe any loans and started making $90-110,000 a year right off the bat. I have relatives who still pay student loans and I still make more than they do. Plus I love my job.
One word: gratitude. You can’t be a happy person if you aren’t grateful and you can’t be a good person if you aren’t grateful. These kids are taught to be ungrateful
This is so real. I was in Uni 2020 to 2022. It was hell. I was already breaking out of the blue pill upon entering, but what I found there was a shocking over-excess of young people with big hearts being brainwashed by the educratic elite. And they started getting inside my head, too. When you're the ONLY one with a critical thought, you start keeping those to yourself, for fear of actual social backlash (which I DID receive at one point). And then, because they've got you doing these things as homework and group projects, that means their rhetoric starts taking of your personal time and thoughts outside of the classroom. It's crazy. The universities are scary places full of evil people. - from Canada
I was in school in the 90s and it was already getting a foothold. I remember first seeing a poster for a "womyns club" and thinking it was embarrassing, but that was part of today's whole disaster. Oh, and at that time, the rainbow flag represented everyone; gay, straight, black, white, Asian, etc. Hence, "all the colors of the rainbow."
2020 hit me really hard with the white guilt and I'm pretty darn conservative. But the messaging was so hammering, combined with the dystopian lockdowns and separation from my community, I was starting to question everything anyway. The breaking point came when I finally mustered the energy to clean off the table and found an entire day's worth of meals I had prepared for myself and never touched. I made the decision to take a break from the internet and just spend time with my family or outside in my back yard soaking up the breezy sunshine for a little over a month with no social media in my face. I studied my Bible, read good books, crocheted and baked and played Uno with my kids. It made a world of difference. I came back a much healthier person with a clearer head and a proper perspective. Sometimes the best solution to propaganda is to just disconnect from it entirely for a while and watch the fog lift from your brain.
Crazy how it has become a fashionable trend to show how oppressed someone can be. Makes me wonder if schools teaching kids about lgbtq+ and various genders tries to embed these ideas into students so that they want to become part of marginalized group so they can receive easy sympathy throughout their life?🤔
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. To deny a man his rights is to deny they are created in the image of God & "Endowed by their Creator". A famous quote by Frederick Douglass regarding the denial of rights is: "To deny a man his rights is to deny him his humanity.". This emphasizes the idea that stripping someone of their basic rights is essentially denying their fundamental human dignity.
Liverpool NY just arrested students for accessing and altering school records after obtaining a password. Teacher was fired and students arrested. Now families are crying that the charges are to harsh. My opinion they knew they were doing the wrong thing, did it anyway, and it was a felony. They should be arrested and face consequences.
But, but, but...making people face the consequences of their actions is so..radical! Aren't we supposed to give them a prize for ingenuity or something?
"Kimmy" realized she was actually stressing herself out, and giving herself anxiety issues. Its amazing how many people feel that same discomfort, and continue with it. And the other young lady found out she was in a cult, and the cult has its own language.
Rush Limbaugh said it well, "young skulls full of mush" and remember that old saying: "sticks and stones will break my bones, but names(words) will never hurt me", and another old saying, "to apply one pound of knowledge, it takes ten pounds of common sense".
I work for a large tech company with a very visible DEI department. But if a person tries to fall back on DEI because they didn't accomplish their goals, they'll find that the DEI department is just another HR department that's designed to prove that the company has the right to kick them to the curb. These kids are in for a hell fo a wake-up call when they enter the real world.
We need more reporting on what's happening with our kids these days. From kindergarten all the way up across America. Inner city, outer city...we need to bring awareness on what politics have done to our children.
There's a trend of teachers sidelining young males to suppress their "toxic masculinity", basically punishing them before they've done anything. This has been going on to a smaller extent for decades. When I was in elementary school back in 1980 our teacher miss Sahagian would punish all the boys on fabricaded reasons every week or so and we were all confused. If your cursive slanted backwards like one boy, you were punished and humiliated in front of the class. She told all the boys and girls not to be friends with the heavy set kid Adam Slone because he was fat and would be a bad influence. She never reprimanded the girls once in the years I was there so I thought she was just hateful to boys. Apparently this kind of hate towards men is being inflicted on boys commonly now, and because they're easy targets, especially with todays political climate being more gender polarized than ever. These young boys grow up having an inherent distrust of women fueling the gender polarization and systemic depression. It's a huge thing, please google it if interested.
That's the problem though. They've been taught, and have come to believe, that people who teach a different way of seeing things are the oppressors. Their morals are being twisted so that they reject sound thinking outright. An individual must _want_ and _choose_ for themselves to explore the other side like the young lady did with the skate park.
The making of professional victim hood is a rung of the latter of the dependency of government. Ivy League College teaches it. Even in the language used. Like "I feel " replacing "I think." Averting critical thinking and self responsibility.
@@youngsandwich2792 Exactly! And the main reason is so that people don't engage with the world in front of them and corrupt politicians who get wealthy in their position by insider trading can stay in power and pass laws without them having the attention span or critical thinking to understand what laws are passed.
My daughter just graduated from a “prestigious” private Liberal Arts college in Los Angeles (we are native Californians). Pleased to say not only did she survive this but actively participated in a whole department of like minded professors that thought for themselves.
Agree. Participation trophies started becoming popular in the early 90s. I remember talking to my niece who was in first grade, and she was telling me that everyone was getting participation trophies. I asked why, and she said it's given so that others don't feel left out. I thought, "This is going to make some people think they deserve something when they don't. It's also not going to give some people the drive to better themselves, since they can get something for nothing." And I was right... this brought about the entitlement behavior of Millenials.
i was there during the transition. i was bringing in blue ribbons (printed on blue construction paper) for engineering and science competitions, and at a time when stem wasn't as big of a thing yet. my little sister was bringing in trophies, for participation. i watched her play soccer, she spent most of the game at a shrub by the field collecting ladybugs. she got participation trophies for not participating. now she is an entitled mess who uses men, has 5 children, and still doesn't have a job.
It’s amazing how lessons humans have known since the dawn of time have become “new” again in 2025. Every species on the planet has known to not focus on the dark aspects of life, nor walk through it and everything is perfect and joyful. Yet, here we are. Wondering why youth growing into adulthood are becoming extremely anxious and overly emotional.
It is not just higher education teaching this horsecrap, corporate America got on the bandwagon as well. So glad I retired early in 2024 to get away from this nonsense.
Once i found out my ancestors were arrested and kicked off their land in scotland only to be put onto a ship and sent to canada... a few hundred years ago...
I was telling friends and family 15+ years ago that kids are getting hung up on words, not actions and behaving as if "two wrongs make a right". I asked people Gen X and older if they heard school teachers and administrators say the very common phrases from the 70's and 80's, like "sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me" and "two wrongs don't make a right". I recall hearing this on a weekly basis if not daily when I was a kid in school. Hearing these young women talk confirms this is one of the changes that divide people Gen X and older from Millenials and younger. Us older generations laughed so hard when the silly microaggression thing came about. That idea is the antithesis of how we were raised.
Thank you John for taking on this major issue negatively and harmfully impacting our youth. I have been trying to fight within the system for years and have felt the wrath of the this flawed and divisive system. The more voices speaking out and standing up for our youth the better and more opportunity to finally stop the madness.
John! I've been watching you since I was a kid! You are incredible!!! Surprisingly, my professor had us read one of your books about College, Is It Worth It. He's truly one of the rare professor's not brainwashing. You are making a difference! Thanks!!!
This is a very important statement. I am really grateful that John Stossel has shown the great harm, the physical harm that this whole DEI corruption does to people. This element is extremely important.
I'm 50 and recall people my age and older discussing annoyingly stupid professors. We would write our papers, answer our essay questions with the non-sense answers we knew THEY wanted to hear and for which THEY would give us a passing grade. We received our paper/degree and went on with our normal lives after college with our foundational principals in tact. I'm not sure why kids today (in the last 18 years or so) are so easily duped.
EXACTLY!!! Look at the ERA, NAACP, blacks and the BLM scam, and the natives in North America! ALL a Victimhood Industry!! You don't see Professional Victim Industries for Asians and Hispanics.
The last year I completed was 9th grade (got a GED). I retired to a lakeside home at age 57. I took a few college courses over the years but never pursued a degree. I think the tide is turning and a lot more young people are seeing the benefits of skipping college and going straight into the workforce.
I should've been a home repair contractor. Workers with their skills are in short supply and they're charging a premium these days. Anyone trying to fix up an old house can tell you.
@ We used to do that before my husband became a Project manager. There’s a huge need for skilled construction workers in Canada. Large companies are always looking.
I dropped out of school because a fellow student was stabbed in the neck (RIP Levi Butler), and the school only cared about it’s image, not student wellness. Pretty certain there was some racism going on, but I’m ignorant of that stuff for the most part.
John, you are one of the best journalists I've ever seen. One of the few that is actually still doing journalism. Thank you for your consistent, amazing, interesting reporting. This is fantastic.
I’ve always been a disagreeable young man. When I went to college I never gave into it. It’s so strange to me how people will mold their behavior just to fit in with lunatics.
And now this implies to most Americans, especially those without a military background. Ignoring terrorism because "we are nice to them, we ended the war, so why would they attack the USA?"
My mom would have kicked my butt if I were to home on college break and acted the way these kids do. What a bunch of excuses to lose who you are! Buck up kids quit letting other people rule your brain if you don’t like a class or the teacher, get out! This is sad
That these young women had to wait until they were out of college to discover other points of view is shameful. That is precisely the experience that college should provide, exposure and discussion of different ideas to make you learn how to think.
Glad to see that many students have now removed themselves from this thinking and are now thinking for themselves. This gives me and should give others hope that none of these people are too far gone
This is somewhat inaccurate. It’s not that teachers can’t do or can’t teach, we just have some really bad teachers and the system is being controlled to suck. Letting people speak their mind is absolutely important. We cannot be afraid of freely speaking to one another. I love that a skatepark was essential to building the fortitude needed for the students to thrive.
@neighbor9672 I can count worthy professors one my one hand! The rest are hiding in academic environments because nobody in the real working working has any use fir their doctorate degree.
Totally agree. Anyone who blames all their problems on someone else is lost. Anyone who lives in the past and stays there for the sake of holding on to excuses is lost.
Yes. I know a man who posts videos on UA-cam that blame America's problems on schools and teachers, because they "coddle" students. It's somewhat funny to see such an unaware fool. But it's sad that he spreads nonsense that people believe.
I spit coffee when I heard some one refer to a Skatepark with a political bend. WTF has happened to the world when skaters give a shit about politics. Oh yeah rage on behalf of the machine.
Now it puts into perspective all those lessons taught to me by my dad. No coddling in the house I grew up in. You worked for your money even at a young age, you worked at home, you worked at school, you apologized if you were wrong, you stood your ground no matter who you were standing against if you were right, and on and on. You were a man by 16 so when we went to college no one could brainwash us.
I recently went to a college visit. The college used to have a reputatioeducation a great education. The first thing the admissions advertised was the mental health services.
One teacher cut to the front of our retail lines during back to school sales, insisting, "I am a COMMUNITY ACTIVIST. Load my cart up with all your FREE $#@!, or I will stage a PROTEST." Teachers, students and parents were not amused. Off duty cop escorted her off property. For some reason, no one showed up to protest. Most people are sane.
I'm 36 now, I went back to college in 2015 to get a Bachelor's degree because at the time it was with the goal of better employment and advancement opportunities. Around 2018, after all the insanity with Trump's first term in office, I suddenly saw a different point of view. For a while I thought people hated me because I was a white man and I had anxiety because the colleges were telling me that people like me are the root of all the problems in the world. Well, I ended up going into online education to finish my bachelor's degree and that's helped get away from most of the insanity on the campuses. By 2021, I went to a rock concert in the summer and suddenly I realized people had no issues with who I was. People of all skin colors were high fiving me as I walked by them, and women were smiling and taking pictures with me for their phones ironically. Finally my anxiety I felt about how other's viewed me, started to go away. Then I graduated in 2022 and I traveled to North Dakota from Wisconsin. I discussed some of the education in the social science and humanities course and everyone felt the same way that I did. They too hated the agenda and only complied to get through it to graduate. Now I have been out of college, it kind of feels good to not be in that environment. At first I felt lost because I was a college student for 7 years getting my bachelor's degree like the Tommy Boy I was, but now that I have been out for 2 years now, it feels good to not be caught up in the Academic nonsense.
Didn't Ayn Rand warn us about "cancel culture" just not with that term? If I recall a young lady in her story jumped off a roof after the congnitive dissonance she suffered with the popular required beliefs and her own knowledge.
Teach your children to think for themselves and always push back against, and ridicule, the "latest thing" cult. Just another thing to tolerate while getting your piece of paper.
Living your life as a victim sounds miserable.
Yes, and that is the point.
Being an actual victim is worse!
That's why liberals are always mad.
@@carrollsanders9376the actual victims over the past decade is anyone but the left, victimized by the left.
@@carrollsanders9376 Most people aren't victims.
They just see themselves that way.
Victimhood is now a status symbol.
They seem to collect disorders like Pokemon, too.
This is nothing new. There is nothing new under the sun. Pretending there is does not help. Just the opposite.
For democrats.
Well said.
Not only a status symbol but a bludgeon that you can wield against unsuspecting normies and weak-minded “progressives”.
It will take a generation to heal from this poison.
The Gospel Mark 1:15
Amen to that!
More than one.
The very far left are responsible for this mess. Sadly you are right, it will take a generation to fix the damage they have done.
It will take a societal collapse to do that.
"Coddling" is too kind a word for what they are doing.
They have to use euphemisms to sneak by the Leftstapo content moderation.
Brainwashing seems more appropriate.
Indoctrination is a more accurate word for it.
Stop calling college aged adults kids.. they're Young Adults.
Yes, the correct word begins with "F."
Stop the federal guarantee of student loans. If colleges didn't get a guaranteed stream of revenue, they'd have to act like a business and their decisions would be subject to repercussions.
Im pretty sure Trump has a plan on deck for this. If not i know Elon vowed to destroy the woke ideology after what happened to his son X.
I've been saying pretty much the same thing for the last 15 years
I so agree. I have been saying that for 20 years to anyone who will listen.
The government shouldn't pay off student loans that can't get a job because of useless degrees. Let the college that puts out useless degrees pay off the debt. University have billions of dollars.
Or make them merit based. You'd have to be in the top 20% of your Jr and Senior high school class to qualify. Many of these kid who get sucked into this don't belong in college anyway. The critical thinking skills of young Americans are abysmal these days.
The people who did this need to be held responsible and accountable
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Imagine being so left that you were afraid of a part of California because it was too right.
Imagine being so right that you buy silver coins from a man who lies about an election loss to the point it causes an insurrection at the us capital
Which is hilarious, because orange county conservs are basically libertarians.
@@squidikkahmm maybe I’ll stop by sometime!
They are extreme outliers this is not the majority. We can't let them hurt us. It's not left or right. It's the big g
@@squidikkaOrange county is at best NIMBY liberals with economic common sense. County is barely conservative
More Stossel. The world needs more of you John.
John’s the biggest professional victim there is, he sued a professional fighter for hundreds of thousands of a simple slap, after John poke prodded and disrespected the man’s profession
That make them unemployable. No business wants to hire a lawsuit.
So true. I was a hiring manager for many years and one of my rules was, don't hire a problem.
He mentioned that, after 2012, there was a big change. It's interesting that my wife saw her first interviewee come to the interview with her parents, in 2014.
I interviewed one genZ and came to the conclusion never again 😂
@@valdivia1234567 What the hell? You don't bring mommy and daddy to a job interview. 🤦
I think quite a few want to be unemployable. They are gambling that the rest of us will take care of them for life rather than watch them reap the rewards of their decisions. That is a REALLY bad bet in my case.
I'm 73. A lesson we learned even before entering kindergarten was:
Sticks and stones may break my bones; but words will never hurt me.
Yeah, I was taught that growing up. But these days they change it to
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will hurt forever. I'm not lying, I see it on plenty of social media platforms. It's fucking ridiculous.
When I was a kid we were told sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me. It seems like we were build differently in the 80’s but we weren’t, we weren’t brainwashed. They’re setting these young people up for failure.
Actually they are setting these kids up to trust the government/academia for everything in their lives, trying to promote campuses as a Safe Space. The current administration tried to start this process in grade school with the promotion of 'alternative' sexuality, to also help start weaning young minds away from their 'restrictive parents' and into the arms of a benevolent and understanding, 'protective' State. Brainwashing, throughout history has ALWAYS started best in the schools.
Oh we were in fact brainwashed. We are constantly bombarded. We got this way over decades of conditioning
Amen
Agreed, I pity the youth of today
Gen X - we were straight-up feral.
MA student here. This video is spot-on! Last month, we had a two hour class dedicated to “the inherent queerness of the internet.”
What a waste of your precious time on Earth.
Ask for your money back!
Graduated high school in 2015 here, went to college for few semesters but couldn't continue🙋🏻♂️ "queerness of the internet" CLASS? By all means I am no expert nor do I wave my high school diploma around trying to be a smartass, but what skills am I supposed to pull from a class like that?😅 I agree with the others, ask- no DEMAND a refund and put a petition to remove that class😁
Ohhh so what’s your major?
"I started thinking for myself." This should be the lesson: You're the Only One who can think for You.
Unfortunately, I don't think the people who need to see are going to see this.
This is SPOT ON as usual. Imagine raising your child to have a victim mentality instead of teaching them about reality, how to deal with reality, how to work hard, how to deal with rude people, how to have confidence, and how to find a path to happiness and success... As opposed to literally teaching kids they have no chance because of some immutable characteristics... It is literally abuse!!!
It's part of the introduction to communism. Use the minorities.
The example of Kimmie is one of [sadly] not preparing a child for college very well. For my kid, I instructed this approach: it's enemy territory. Get in, get it, and get out: take what you want, but know there's a phalanx of neo-marxists peppered about education that are well practiced in deceptions. Take a look at staff/employee policy: it reveals who the administrators really are. [In many cases they are remote, residing in some state office like Sacramento and local titles are automatons wielding not much more than cafeteria decisions]. Read 5 or 6 books on any subject *before* day one of class, or you'll get taken for a ride. Any pre-war publications are like double credit in terms of parsing context and discovering distortions inside sometimes opaque curriculum.
You're missing a key question: Why are they doing this?
@@TheOrangeRoad POWER and CONTROL
@@TheOrangeRoad Dividing people makes them easier to conquer.
I am in my 25th year of teaching in K-12 schools. What has happened over the course of a quarter century disgusts me. Those of us who don’t jump on board the crazy train have to mute ourselves all day around colleagues. I got pushed out of a school I’d been at for nine years when a new administrator dropped into my home room and I wasn’t leading one of the stupid therapy sessions required of all homeroom teachers, but which none of us were qualified to lead. SEL - Social / Emotional Learning. I’m a Spanish teacher, why am I supposed to be conducting group therapy?
I escaped the public school system forever in 2011 (after only 12 years), while I still could. Best decision I've ever made. Unfortunately for people like yourself, it is not so easy to change careers this late in the game. I hope you can make it to retirement with your sanity intact. Best of luck to you.
27 years in and I still love to teach, but SEL, constant PD sessions about victimhood and how to counsel it (taking away time to plan and grade), then having to memorize 180 names, preferred names, preferred pronouns, and whether the parent knows about said preferences has made the last ten years increasingly miserable. No wonder so few young people stay in this profession. When I began teaching the word I heard constantly was "rigor"...I haven't heard it in a meeting or PD in years.
Victimhood keeps you stuck in the dirt, unable to move forward.
That's what they want.
Race hustlers (like Al Sharptongue) depend on keeping victims stuck. If they were free, they wouldn't listen to con artists like him.
It's gaslighting and its un-American. People seem to forget: black colleges were built to do something for their kids and following generations - not to whine over "privilege" or other nonsense. They just... did it. And isn't *that* the American way? On privilege, I note the only real one is government: special health care, royal pensions, deferred compensation programs to avoid AMT [when they do work], and on and on. To distract from the ongoing looting, politicians and their fellow travelers would have us at each others throats so they can continue.
Victimization is perhaps the most effective 'damaging form of systemic racism.
Easier to control. They will always vote democrat. For example single women and people of color
Great report, John. Sounds like that Documentary should be part of EVERY college student's Orientation.
"Back in my day" - I'm 61, so that would be the 70's, 80's and 90's when I went from my teens through my twenties - it would have been viewed as embarrassing to view yourself as a victim unless you truly were.
You would have been laughed at and marginalized as you would have deserved.
No. My husband is a 65yr old quadriplegic. It was embarrassing to see yourself as a victim even if you were one. People would get mad if you treated them as victims or called them such. Think about calling people survivors, that came about because they were so mad about being called victims, even though they were
Women's groups were doing that back then and no one laughed, they got nervous smiles and nods from men who refuse to hurt a woman's feelings by calling her out.
@@goodolearkygal5746 Now it's a competition for who can be the biggest victim. They list off all their made up flaws desperately seeking attention and sympathy. It's so weird.
"If you are going to cry, I will give you a reason" used to be considered completely normal.
My father taught me all the strategies to NOT be a victim. I'm with you.
The like button seemed like a micro aggression, so I smashed it.
I am a Libertarian opposing DEI and social (in)justice, and I am exhausted thanks to SJWs.
Slow clap
That's part of their goal.
@@McVaio Relentless sacks of manure they are! They always double or triple down when their ideology gets punched in the face.
This is how most people feel about libertarians. Oh tell me more about the gold standard or laissez faire.
@@exsang Your insecurity is quite apparent.
We have become such an obscenely weak nation. I pray we’re near the bottom of this slope we’ve slipped down. The next 3-4 generations will have a very tough go of it, if they are to build America back up to greatness.
It can be done in 10 years. Have some faith. People aren't as dumb as they sometimes seem to be.
Have you had much interaction with the alpha generation? I don't think they are going to be much help.
'Oppressed and Oppressor' 'Divide and Conquer' Satan is laughing
China, too.
Most Satanists don't believe in Satan as an actual being. In fact, most Satanists are atheists and practice Satanism as an ideological way of behaving in the world. The only ones it seems who believe in Satan as a malevolent entity are the organized religions. Who provided the human written religious texts to fool them? It is almost comical.
@@DogmaticAtheist same thing
Along with the politicians.
It's so easy to manipulate people who think they need to be "saved".
Communists plan in the Democratic Party!
"And then I started to feel like I was part of the In group."
Oh and what a group of people you are, sweetie.
Most College Professors don’t have much Real Life experience, they have lived in their little bubble of So-Called Academia their whole lives!!!!!!!!!!
Totally correct.
Totally right
That's true. A lot of professors have simply stayed in academia from the start going through multiple post doctoral research positions and becoming an assistant professor and just staying in the university system to get tenure. It's actually harder in many fields to go from industry back into academics because universities will favor those who stayed in the system and "paid their dues" by doing ten years or more of underpaid post doctoral work instead of moving on to higher paid industry positions but the problem is then the universities are lacking in people with real world experience and in some fields of study there is no real world "industry" applications and while fields that are purely research and knowledge driven can be good there's also far too much room for abuse and meaningless sophistry that actually contributes nothing of value to humankind's collect knowledge.
Very true!
A trust fund can float a loser in academia all the way to a PhD.
Mao would be proud of the teachers
Every college student in the country should be required to watch this before starting school!
This is why I'm not only homeschooling my kids, but also encouraging them to take up trades instead of pursuing liberal arts. Save a lot of money, learn valuable skills, and bypass the brainwashing. Win-win-win all around.
With any trade your children will be able to own their own business before the indoctrination of their peers graduate college!
Same here!
They will do extremely well learning a trade, supply and demand shows they will make great money
As a union plumber I think you're doing your kids a real service for promoting trade schools. I went through a 5 year apprenticeship and didn't owe any loans and started making $90-110,000 a year right off the bat. I have relatives who still pay student loans and I still make more than they do. Plus I love my job.
What are they winning? A little shiny prize?
The truth is never afraid of an opposing opinion. It is still the truth. Lies must always be on guard least they be extinguished by the truth.
nicely put. I agree
One word: gratitude. You can’t be a happy person if you aren’t grateful and you can’t be a good person if you aren’t grateful. These kids are taught to be ungrateful
The KING IS BACK. Welcome back Stossel, we've missed you. Hope you and your family are doing fine.
CHAO$ CREATE$ CA$H
that's why they ALL do it!
This is an old video.
What a lame comment.
Just think about how many lives these people made miserable!
This is so real. I was in Uni 2020 to 2022. It was hell. I was already breaking out of the blue pill upon entering, but what I found there was a shocking over-excess of young people with big hearts being brainwashed by the educratic elite. And they started getting inside my head, too. When you're the ONLY one with a critical thought, you start keeping those to yourself, for fear of actual social backlash (which I DID receive at one point). And then, because they've got you doing these things as homework and group projects, that means their rhetoric starts taking of your personal time and thoughts outside of the classroom. It's crazy. The universities are scary places full of evil people. - from Canada
Group projects are deadly to free thinkers. It's like a crab-pot; when one starts climbing out, the others drag him back!
I was in school in the 90s and it was already getting a foothold. I remember first seeing a poster for a "womyns club" and thinking it was embarrassing, but that was part of today's whole disaster. Oh, and at that time, the rainbow flag represented everyone; gay, straight, black, white, Asian, etc. Hence, "all the colors of the rainbow."
2020 hit me really hard with the white guilt and I'm pretty darn conservative. But the messaging was so hammering, combined with the dystopian lockdowns and separation from my community, I was starting to question everything anyway. The breaking point came when I finally mustered the energy to clean off the table and found an entire day's worth of meals I had prepared for myself and never touched.
I made the decision to take a break from the internet and just spend time with my family or outside in my back yard soaking up the breezy sunshine for a little over a month with no social media in my face. I studied my Bible, read good books, crocheted and baked and played Uno with my kids.
It made a world of difference. I came back a much healthier person with a clearer head and a proper perspective. Sometimes the best solution to propaganda is to just disconnect from it entirely for a while and watch the fog lift from your brain.
Well said. What you wrote really does sound chilling.
Now that you mention it, I did see more group projects being assigned when I was in college in the '90s . . .
Crazy how it has become a fashionable trend to show how oppressed someone can be. Makes me wonder if schools teaching kids about lgbtq+ and various genders tries to embed these ideas into students so that they want to become part of marginalized group so they can receive easy sympathy throughout their life?🤔
I knew I wasn't the only one to shit on the crumbling education system, thanks John for pointing it out. I've been saying this for years
I am 60 and in my youth, neither parents or schools cared about anyone's self-esteem UNLESS you had done something to deserve some.
An education should be treated like a special accomplishment, not just some piece of paper that gets you a job interview. Earned, not bought or given.
High School & College were the best years of my life! I’m 45 now, graduated high school in 96/97…
What the freak happened!? 😅
This video DEFINES the college experience
I am forever grateful that I got my degree and got out before this kind of stuff really got a foothold on campuses.
Yeah. College is a big scam
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. To deny a man his rights is to deny they are created in the image of God & "Endowed by their Creator". A famous quote by Frederick Douglass regarding the denial of rights is: "To deny a man his rights is to deny him his humanity.". This emphasizes the idea that stripping someone of their basic rights is essentially denying their fundamental human dignity.
Liverpool NY just arrested students for accessing and altering school records after obtaining a password. Teacher was fired and students arrested. Now families are crying that the charges are to harsh. My opinion they knew they were doing the wrong thing, did it anyway, and it was a felony. They should be arrested and face consequences.
But, but, but...making people face the consequences of their actions is so..radical! Aren't we supposed to give them a prize for ingenuity or something?
😂… 💩
Thank you John Stossel.
"Kimmy" realized she was actually stressing herself out, and giving herself anxiety issues.
Its amazing how many people feel that same discomfort, and continue with it.
And the other young lady found out she was in a cult, and the cult has its own language.
It starts much younger than this.
Rush Limbaugh said it well, "young skulls full of mush" and remember that old saying: "sticks and stones will break my bones, but names(words) will never hurt me", and another old saying, "to apply one pound of knowledge, it takes ten pounds of common sense".
I work for a large tech company with a very visible DEI department. But if a person tries to fall back on DEI because they didn't accomplish their goals, they'll find that the DEI department is just another HR department that's designed to prove that the company has the right to kick them to the curb. These kids are in for a hell fo a wake-up call when they enter the real world.
Just to add, the DEI department is a "honey pot" used to draw in and make a list of potential malcontents that may have to be let go.
We need more reporting on what's happening with our kids these days. From kindergarten all the way up across America. Inner city, outer city...we need to bring awareness on what politics have done to our children.
There's a trend of teachers sidelining young males to suppress their "toxic masculinity", basically punishing them before they've done anything. This has been going on to a smaller extent for decades. When I was in elementary school back in 1980 our teacher miss Sahagian would punish all the boys on fabricaded reasons every week or so and we were all confused. If your cursive slanted backwards like one boy, you were punished and humiliated in front of the class. She told all the boys and girls not to be friends with the heavy set kid Adam Slone because he was fat and would be a bad influence. She never reprimanded the girls once in the years I was there so I thought she was just hateful to boys. Apparently this kind of hate towards men is being inflicted on boys commonly now, and because they're easy targets, especially with todays political climate being more gender polarized than ever. These young boys grow up having an inherent distrust of women fueling the gender polarization and systemic depression. It's a huge thing, please google it if interested.
Great idea
I commented but youtube removed it for some reason, curious if this gets removed too.
A certain kind of politics. Starts with the letters progr..., Dem..., often accompanied by wo...
This is so sad, life is way better than most people realize.
If we could just get these kids to read Dr Sowell.....
That's the problem though. They've been taught, and have come to believe, that people who teach a different way of seeing things are the oppressors. Their morals are being twisted so that they reject sound thinking outright.
An individual must _want_ and _choose_ for themselves to explore the other side like the young lady did with the skate park.
The making of professional victim hood is a rung of the latter of the dependency of government. Ivy League College teaches it. Even in the language used. Like "I feel " replacing "I think." Averting critical thinking and self responsibility.
It is so disturbing that universities are teaching our kids to be more divided than unified.
By no mistake!
@@youngsandwich2792 Exactly! And the main reason is so that people don't engage with the world in front of them and corrupt politicians who get wealthy in their position by insider trading can stay in power and pass laws without them having the attention span or critical thinking to understand what laws are passed.
Starts in public schools…
Exactly. They were created and called "Universities" for a reason.
My daughter just graduated from a “prestigious” private Liberal Arts college in Los Angeles (we are native Californians). Pleased to say not only did she survive this but actively participated in a whole department of like minded professors that thought for themselves.
Most of us have been saying this for years. Since the beginning of the participation trophy era.
Agree. Participation trophies started becoming popular in the early 90s. I remember talking to my niece who was in first grade, and she was telling me that everyone was getting participation trophies. I asked why, and she said it's given so that others don't feel left out. I thought, "This is going to make some people think they deserve something when they don't. It's also not going to give some people the drive to better themselves, since they can get something for nothing." And I was right... this brought about the entitlement behavior of Millenials.
i was there during the transition. i was bringing in blue ribbons (printed on blue construction paper) for engineering and science competitions, and at a time when stem wasn't as big of a thing yet. my little sister was bringing in trophies, for participation. i watched her play soccer, she spent most of the game at a shrub by the field collecting ladybugs. she got participation trophies for not participating. now she is an entitled mess who uses men, has 5 children, and still doesn't have a job.
It’s amazing how lessons humans have known since the dawn of time have become “new” again in 2025.
Every species on the planet has known to not focus on the dark aspects of life, nor walk through it and everything is perfect and joyful.
Yet, here we are. Wondering why youth growing into adulthood are becoming extremely anxious and overly emotional.
History shows us that we do not learn from history. It is amazing to be so advanced yet so dumb at the same time.
I was going to hire this kid right out of college, but I failed they/them's mother's interview process.
😂😂😂
WTF
Ha! 😂
It is not just higher education teaching this horsecrap, corporate America got on the bandwagon as well. So glad I retired early in 2024 to get away from this nonsense.
Stupidity is a learned mindset. Nobody starts out stupid, they chose to become stupid.
real
but arguably, everyone started stupid (a baby cant think at any level like we do,you except maybe exceptional few)
Amen!
100% correct. And laziness increases stupidity.
Jordan Peterson would disagree with you.
I love John Stossel! Tells the truth!
No this is the poisoning of peoples Minds, the continuation of the Frankfurt School
❤thank you! How many of us are out there, that know where this shit comes from?
@@benburndred2226 It's gnostic alchemy
Once i found out my ancestors were arrested and kicked off their land in scotland only to be put onto a ship and sent to canada... a few hundred years ago...
This began decades ago, when they were allowed to unionize. And then began teaching focused on "self esteem".
Obama
In public schools
They're miserable because they know they have been lied to deep in their soul and reality doesn't reconcile with the BS that has been told to them.
Babe wake up, John Stossel is here ready again to spit out facts
Fox News Faxs LMFAO!😂😂
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@@carrollsanders9376 And where did you get most of ur education from. ur local antifa meeting of Moe Rons?
@@carrollsanders9376 and where did u get most of ur education from.
@@carrollsanders9376 y ur local antifa meeting of Moe Rons?
I was telling friends and family 15+ years ago that kids are getting hung up on words, not actions and behaving as if "two wrongs make a right". I asked people Gen X and older if they heard school teachers and administrators say the very common phrases from the 70's and 80's, like "sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me" and "two wrongs don't make a right". I recall hearing this on a weekly basis if not daily when I was a kid in school. Hearing these young women talk confirms this is one of the changes that divide people Gen X and older from Millenials and younger. Us older generations laughed so hard when the silly microaggression thing came about. That idea is the antithesis of how we were raised.
I graduated in 2011. Looking back, I saw it brewing and being packaged
Thx for spreading the word John! Please continue doing what you’re doing!
Thank you John for taking on this major issue negatively and harmfully impacting our youth. I have been trying to fight within the system for years and have felt the wrath of the this flawed and divisive system. The more voices speaking out and standing up for our youth the better and more opportunity to finally stop the madness.
John! I've been watching you since I was a kid! You are incredible!!! Surprisingly, my professor had us read one of your books about College, Is It Worth It. He's truly one of the rare professor's not brainwashing. You are making a difference! Thanks!!!
This is a very important statement. I am really grateful that John Stossel has shown the great harm, the physical harm that this whole DEI corruption does to people.
This element is extremely important.
"I was the one inflicting pain on myself."
DUH! We tried screaming that at the top of our lungs, but you were too dim to understand.
so sad that these young people are having their minds twisted and then go out into the world and create havoc. it's not productive for society.
I’m beginning to wonder if that’s what they want…
I'm 50 and recall people my age and older discussing annoyingly stupid professors. We would write our papers, answer our essay questions with the non-sense answers we knew THEY wanted to hear and for which THEY would give us a passing grade. We received our paper/degree and went on with our normal lives after college with our foundational principals in tact. I'm not sure why kids today (in the last 18 years or so) are so easily duped.
That's the plan.
Maybe everyone should have written the truth to stop the 🐂💩 before it got to this point. That might’ve been easier than dealing with society as is.
Sadly there is big money in victimization.
EXACTLY!!!
Look at the ERA, NAACP, blacks and the BLM scam, and the natives in North America! ALL a Victimhood Industry!!
You don't see Professional Victim Industries for Asians and Hispanics.
"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" isn't an absolute truth, it's a mindset you have to adopt for it to work.
Except “ I’m sorry but he/she didn’t make it” or He or She have passed away
One of my best life decisions was to skip college and go straight to work.
Ditto
The last year I completed was 9th grade (got a GED). I retired to a lakeside home at age 57. I took a few college courses over the years but never pursued a degree. I think the tide is turning and a lot more young people are seeing the benefits of skipping college and going straight into the workforce.
One of my best decisions was to go to university and work to put myself through.
I should've been a home repair contractor. Workers with their skills are in short supply and they're charging a premium these days. Anyone trying to fix up an old house can tell you.
@ We used to do that before my husband became a Project manager. There’s a huge need for skilled construction workers in Canada. Large companies are always looking.
I dropped out of school because a fellow student was stabbed in the neck (RIP Levi Butler), and the school only cared about it’s image, not student wellness.
Pretty certain there was some racism going on, but I’m ignorant of that stuff for the most part.
John, you are one of the best journalists I've ever seen. One of the few that is actually still doing journalism. Thank you for your consistent, amazing, interesting reporting. This is fantastic.
I’ve always been a disagreeable young man. When I went to college I never gave into it. It’s so strange to me how people will mold their behavior just to fit in with lunatics.
They… the self anointed
And now this implies to most Americans, especially those without a military background. Ignoring terrorism because "we are nice to them, we ended the war, so why would they attack the USA?"
My mom would have kicked my butt if I were to home on college break and acted the way these kids do. What a bunch of excuses to lose who you are! Buck up kids quit letting other people rule your brain if you don’t like a class or the teacher, get out! This is sad
Well done JS. Thank you for all you do.
That these young women had to wait until they were out of college to discover other points of view is shameful. That is precisely the experience that college should provide, exposure and discussion of different ideas to make you learn how to think.
God Bless John Stossel
Glad to see that many students have now removed themselves from this thinking and are now thinking for themselves. This gives me and should give others hope that none of these people are too far gone
It is easier to teach people en masse how to skirt around responsibility and accountability so that a Nubile mind is then, easier to control.
THIS NEEDS MORE ATTENTION
Those who can't do, go teach! And corrupt young minds while hiding in that institution.🤦♂️
This is somewhat inaccurate. It’s not that teachers can’t do or can’t teach, we just have some really bad teachers and the system is being controlled to suck.
Letting people speak their mind is absolutely important. We cannot be afraid of freely speaking to one another.
I love that a skatepark was essential to building the fortitude needed for the students to thrive.
@neighbor9672 I can count worthy professors one my one hand! The rest are hiding in academic environments because nobody in the real working working has any use fir their doctorate degree.
You can still see it in their eyes. This is madness
John Stossel saving America one video at a time!
Totally agree. Anyone who blames all their problems on someone else is lost. Anyone who lives in the past and stays there for the sake of holding on to excuses is lost.
Yes. I know a man who posts videos on UA-cam that blame America's problems on schools and teachers, because they "coddle" students. It's somewhat funny to see such an unaware fool. But it's sad that he spreads nonsense that people believe.
I spit coffee when I heard some one refer to a Skatepark with a political bend. WTF has happened to the world when skaters give a shit about politics. Oh yeah rage on behalf of the machine.
I wonder what happened to the world when skaters can even string enough words together in their minds to form a single thought.
Now it puts into perspective all those lessons taught to me by my dad. No coddling in the house I grew up in. You worked for your money even at a young age, you worked at home, you worked at school, you apologized if you were wrong, you stood your ground no matter who you were standing against if you were right, and on and on. You were a man by 16 so when we went to college no one could brainwash us.
I recently went to a college visit. The college used to have a reputatioeducation a great education. The first thing the admissions advertised was the mental health services.
One teacher cut to the front of our retail lines during back to school sales, insisting, "I am a COMMUNITY ACTIVIST. Load my cart up with all your FREE $#@!, or I will stage a PROTEST." Teachers, students and parents were not amused. Off duty cop escorted her off property. For some reason, no one showed up to protest. Most people are sane.
Thank you,John. We need this honest journalism in this world today.
John Stossel! An OG in the journalism world. Back when journalists were JOURNALISTS. Glad I came across this channel.
You can't get your morals from school.
I'm 36 now, I went back to college in 2015 to get a Bachelor's degree because at the time it was with the goal of better employment and advancement opportunities. Around 2018, after all the insanity with Trump's first term in office, I suddenly saw a different point of view. For a while I thought people hated me because I was a white man and I had anxiety because the colleges were telling me that people like me are the root of all the problems in the world. Well, I ended up going into online education to finish my bachelor's degree and that's helped get away from most of the insanity on the campuses. By 2021, I went to a rock concert in the summer and suddenly I realized people had no issues with who I was. People of all skin colors were high fiving me as I walked by them, and women were smiling and taking pictures with me for their phones ironically. Finally my anxiety I felt about how other's viewed me, started to go away.
Then I graduated in 2022 and I traveled to North Dakota from Wisconsin. I discussed some of the education in the social science and humanities course and everyone felt the same way that I did. They too hated the agenda and only complied to get through it to graduate. Now I have been out of college, it kind of feels good to not be in that environment. At first I felt lost because I was a college student for 7 years getting my bachelor's degree like the Tommy Boy I was, but now that I have been out for 2 years now, it feels good to not be caught up in the Academic nonsense.
Didn't Ayn Rand warn us about "cancel culture" just not with that term? If I recall a young lady in her story jumped off a roof after the congnitive dissonance she suffered with the popular required beliefs and her own knowledge.
Very few hear her even now.
That may have been in "Atlas Shrugged". The wife of Mr. Taggart I think; it's been more than a few years since I read the book.
Libertarians would do much better if they stopped ignoring Ayn Rand
Disgusting that this was allowed to occur. We need to hold those responsible accountable and charges laid
Teach your children to think for themselves and always push back against, and ridicule, the "latest thing" cult. Just another thing to tolerate while getting your piece of paper.
I'm glad it sounds like some of those kids are recovering from what their schools did to them.
Thank God these kids got a clue!