Why Students Are Miserable: The Coddling of the American Mind

[@AFloridaSon]

Living your life as a victim sounds miserable.

[@Batham55]

Yes, and that is the point.

[@carrollsanders9376]

Being an actual victim is worse!

[@netposerx]

That's why liberals are always mad.

[@a.d.4536]

@@carrollsanders9376the actual victims over the past decade is anyone but the left, victimized by the left.

[@Incomudro1963]

@@carrollsanders9376 Most people aren't victims. They just see themselves that way.

[@davidhakadoober._1-]

It will take a generation to heal from this poison.

[@Brucev7]

The Gospel Mark 1:15

[@somechick1980]

Amen to that!

[@Jack-y8u5p]

More than one.

[@11B30Inf]

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.

[@ALPHA90152]

It will take a societal collapse to do that.

[@giantfactory]

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.

[@FRANK45CASTLE]

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.

[@BeachBum51050]

I've been saying pretty much the same thing for the last 15 years

[@bobmonson6432]

I so agree. I have been saying that for 20 years to anyone who will listen.

[@billrehm3590]

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.

[@cookiebun95]

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.

[@jimlongino8420]

5 year olds used to know " Sticks and stones can break your bones but words can never hurt you. Go back to that.

[@ScoutrunnerTopic]

That’s the wrong quote 😭

[@patrickwoods2213]

But words CAN hurt. We don’t need the woke nonsense, but everyone knows that words can hurt - if you say them to literary put people down.

[@jimlongino8420]

@@patrickwoods2213 Grow a pair. Words only have the power that you choose to give them. Just don't give them the power, it's just that simple.

[@swish-r9v]

And 'sticks/stones' might not actually cause you pain when used . I'm no philosophy major but......​@@patrickwoods2213

[@VintageCardinal]

@@patrickwoods2213 Literary? You mean literally? and you're wrong; words can only "hurt" you if you're weak enough to let them. Grow some thicker skin, bruh.

[@voidandnon-2530]

I'm so happy we can finally have these conversations publicly.

[@axidhaus]

Remember during the non fascist Biden administration we couldn’t speak about reality

[@IMDunn-oy9cd]

Victimhood is now a status symbol.

[@PS-kn4im]

They seem to collect disorders like Pokemon, too.

[@JustMeAP1]

This is nothing new. There is nothing new under the sun. Pretending there is does not help. Just the opposite.

[@sdfft820]

For democrats.

[@mikeottersole]

Well said.

[@Individual_Lives_Matter]

Not only a status symbol but a bludgeon that you can wield against unsuspecting normies and weak-minded “progressives”.

[@daemon.running]

Imagine being so left that you were afraid of a part of California because it was too right.

[@littlebob1261]

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

[@squidikka]

Which is hilarious, because orange county conservs are basically libertarians.

[@Iforgothowtoflyaplane-c9p]

@@squidikkahmm maybe I’ll stop by sometime!

[@matthorrocks6517]

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

[@jesseelder2638]

@@squidikkaOrange county is at best NIMBY liberals with economic common sense. County is barely conservative

[@kennethwers]

That make them unemployable. No business wants to hire a lawsuit.

[@RedStickHistorian]

So true. I was a hiring manager for many years and one of my rules was, don't hire a problem.

[@valdivia1234567]

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.

[@blantant]

I interviewed one genZ and came to the conclusion never again 😂

[@Strideo1]

@@valdivia1234567 What the hell? You don't bring mommy and daddy to a job interview. 🤦

[@wildmouse5888]

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.

[@kenfett7070]

As someone who has been working in a high school and coaching two high school varsity sports teams over the past 17 years, the stark difference between the kids from 2008 and today is astounding. I left the public school indoctrination factory in 2022 because that is what it has become and moved to a private Catholic girls' college prep school. Greatest move ever. These girls are the brightest, most genuine, caring, and spiritual people ever. They are not force fed what to believe. They are taught to think for themselves. They are taught to see both sides of every story. Get your kids out of public schools if you have the means, and you will be giving them the greatest gift ever, the ability to be happy and not look at themselves as a victim.

[@mason4966]

"Catholic school" that tells us all we need to know.

[@conservativecaravan7664]

Did you read what was said about public school?​@@mason4966

[@bubbaschwartz121]

It's so encouraging to see people, especially young people, waking up.

[@majermike]

wake up ppl they are trying to coddle your balls

[@chrisscoleri2341]

"Coddling" is too kind a word for what they are doing.

[@michaelsteven5558]

They have to use euphemisms to sneak by the Leftstapo content moderation.

[@ninjabearpress2574]

Brainwashing seems more appropriate.

[@benhabot9526]

Indoctrination is a more accurate word for it.

[@derrickmcadoo3804]

Stop calling college aged adults kids.. they're Young Adults.

[@chuckcassidymusic]

Yes, the correct word begins with "F."

[@DJT-dn7ut]

My wife is a teacher at a public school and brought home a 4 page document on "goal setting ideas" on topics such as: Pronoun respect, Celebrating diverse holidays, Inclusive workgroups, etc.... not ONE mention of reading, math, science. GET YOUR KIDS OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS!

[@ericleary5075]

I gotta ask… is she still teaching there?

[@willkerslake8820]

You couldn't make this crap up! Politics should be kept out of campuses, and all the DEI and pronoun crap creates division, not diversity!

[@YourMomsWeirdFriend]

My out spoken Republican administrator set up professional development workshops on addressing our students feelings in class for 20 minutes every day. In High School. An out spoken republican colleague created (2019)a "woke club" where the students could talk about their feelings of victimhood after school. Be careful where you point fingers. I no longer teach, but as a liberal I openly fought these things being implemented with our students. I agree that people should home school their kids.

[@SKBottom]

My girlfriend works at a very expensive and exclusive private school. They are at least as bad as any public school when it comes to this stuff.

[@qwerther44]

Yeah, conveniently forget the other 90 days she brings home math and reading because your feelings. Poor you, that's a lot of tears.

[@Klat2]

Mao would be proud of the teachers

[@jrr570]

🎯🎯🎯

[@loganclements4332]

More Stossel. The world needs more of you John.

[@jestawell]

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

[@timkelly6985]

​@@jestawell Midol is cheap.

[@utubewillyman]

@@jestawell Assault is a a crime, big girl.

[@mason4966]

​​@@jestawell Stossel seemed to be looking for a confrontation that day then went home and cried about it.

[@Jrf-zn6ps]

It is encouraging to see/hear young people who have been introspective and thoughtful enough to work through the absurdity of their education. God bless ‘em.

[@jennifergersch9126]

Amen!!!!!!!!!! They are the hope for the future.

[@skylineXpert]

Victimhood keeps you stuck in the dirt, unable to move forward.

[@fig8man]

That's what they want.

[@deniswauchope3788]

Race hustlers (like Al Sharptongue) depend on keeping victims stuck. If they were free, they wouldn't listen to con artists like him.

[@flinch622]

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.

[@gregj831]

Victimization is perhaps the most effective 'damaging form of systemic racism.

[@sdfft820]

Easier to control. They will always vote democrat. For example single women and people of color

[@johnbaligrodzki9672]

It’s not coddling, it’s brainwashing. Excellent and interesting reporting.

[@KandiKlover]

Infantilization, hedonism, overindulgence etc.

[@briant7265]

It's both.

[@aaronlandry3934]

Yeah, this is brainwashing. Woman was scared because the person walking the dog was a different color

[@Tony-eq2mk]

Brainwashed like churches do

[@Phillip-y6d]

@@KandiKlover 🎯

[@somechick1980]

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.

[@paulholmes672]

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.

[@mrscott01]

Oh we were in fact brainwashed. We are constantly bombarded. We got this way over decades of conditioning

[@mitchellhomestead8905]

Amen

[@DangerB0ne]

Agreed, I pity the youth of today

[@mikeguilmette776]

Gen X - we were straight-up feral.

[@repost9581]

This scares me to my core. I have 1 kid in college and another on the way. I teach them to be smart and fearless. I hope I've done enough.

[@jamie.777]

I was in college in the early 90s. I didn't trust or do anything any adult over 30 telling me what to do or think. 😂for better or worse I was NEVER going to be told how ro think by any adult, especially some wierd college professor

[@charlie_541]

I would send your kids this video so they know what could happen if I were you

[@mason4966]

To be honest with you, you are just going to have to take comfort in the fact that you pushed them in the right direction and have taught what you believe to be true. Take comfort in the fact that you taught many right things and made probably many mistakes as well just like almost every other parent ever.

[@lynzannabel6990]

My grandson is not planning on going to university. I'm sending him this video so that he doesn't change his mind.

[@jennifergersch9126]

Go abroad. It's much saner there.

[@dennisquigney3809]

Unfortunately, I don't think the people who need to see are going to see this.

[@PhilipWeberAB]

They won't because they'll automatically ignore it because they'll assume it's conservative. Their minds are completely broken.

[@Kirsten-c6t]

Yep. We should elevate minority voices they say- until they disagree with me (sounds pretty colonialist to me, ironically lol)

[@TalentDevo]

.... Or you could say "I hope the people that need this get to see it because it's important." Remember The gatekeepers of media are not gatekeepers anymore - these kinds of films will be viewed and shared by millions, this is very fortunate it's not unfortunate as you said

[@hopeformorning6157]

@dennisquigney3809 That’s not necessarily true, because I am one of the people who needed to see this. I am a conservative first year college student who spent a majority of my winter break miserably debating whether or not to go back to college, because I spent the last semester being lectured yo by professors who told me that, because I’m a women, the patriarchy will always stop me from achieving as much as a man will. That we need affirmative action and gender quotas because the white men just hate us so much, and the “system” is against me and everyone else who isn’t a straight white man. As an American, I was disgusted and insulted that such blatant pessimist of racism and sexism would be allowed to be lectured on campus, while everyone else in the class cheered along. I was truly beginning to wonder if I really was a “bigot” because I don’t believe is such things as gender quotas and affirmative action, and think DEI and “equity” are complete garbage. Seeing this video and realizing that other people feel the same way I do, and that this is a nation wide epidemic in our colleges makes me feel a little less alone, and gives me courage to stand up the people who attempt to make victims out of my generation.

[@caravanlifenz]

I disagree. Left-wing beliefs were pushed on us at university, but after leaving university and escaping from that negativity, I met a wide range of people and made up my own mind. That's why so many young left-wing people drift right with age after escaping from university.

[@karlostj4683]

"I started thinking for myself." This should be the lesson: You're the Only One who can think for You.

[@jamie.777]

😂😂when I was 20 I didn't trust or listen to anyone over 35 . I despised being told what to do. These ❄️ kids are willingly being brainwashed by wierd old.boomers. former hippies 😂😂😂😂😂

[@travisjazzbo3490]

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!!!

[@RKingis]

It's part of the introduction to communism. Use the minorities.

[@flinch622]

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.

[@TheOrangeRoad]

You're missing a key question: Why are they doing this?

[@travisjazzbo3490]

@@TheOrangeRoad POWER and CONTROL

[@jeremyweems4916]

​@@TheOrangeRoad Dividing people makes them easier to conquer.

[@MorningGloryDancer]

I'm so proud of these kiddos for sticking to their thoughts and values through it all. You are most certainly not victims; You are warriors for having gone through all that and come out the other side so much stronger. Bravo!

[@jibsandjumpers]

This is so important for young people to understand. Within the realm of victimhood there is the idea of the victim loop which becomes a toxic cycle of blaming everyone else for your problems and not taking any accountability. And there is the accountability loop, which empowers individuals to tackle their problems and gain strength and resiliency through that effort. Within that idea, there’s a concept of a victim hotel. Basically you can walk into the lobby, but make sure to never check in.

[@jennifergersch9126]

Also, surround yourself with people who will inspire you rather than tear you down.

[@leonardkrasner5811]

Most College Professors don’t have much Real Life experience, they have lived in their little bubble of So-Called Academia their whole lives!!!!!!!!!!

[@FormerVicePresidentDickVeiny]

Totally correct.

[@FormerVicePresidentDickVeiny]

Totally right

[@Strideo1]

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.

[@gregj831]

Very true!

[@garrettford7232]

A trust fund can float a loser in academia all the way to a PhD.

[@winstonhewett6679]

Every college student in the country should be required to watch this before starting school!

[@queso8577]

Says the 60 year old white dude. Didn't your generation teach people to use different bathrooms and attend different because their skin color was different?

[@Incomudro1963]

"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.

[@goodolearkygal5746]

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

[@palaceofwisdom9448]

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.

[@whois3581]

@@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.

[@wildmouse5888]

"If you are going to cry, I will give you a reason" used to be considered completely normal.

[@Redmenace96]

My father taught me all the strategies to NOT be a victim. I'm with you.

[@James-c8s9z]

Whatever happened to " sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me" I'm 74 and I still go by it!!❤😊

[@Rikolus8383]

Have loved ya for years John. Thanks for continuing to fight the good fight for so long. I just feel bad for the 121 who gave this video a Thumbs Down....

[@Gandoff2000]

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.

[@wolfevickery6081]

nicely put. I agree

[@Brucev7]

'Oppressed and Oppressor' 'Divide and Conquer' Satan is laughing

[@DogmaticAtheist]

China, too.

[@davedismantled]

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.

[@TrumpSupremacist]

@@DogmaticAtheist same thing

[@MrVvulf]

Along with the politicians. It's so easy to manipulate people who think they need to be "saved".

[@jaygold4467]

Communists plan in the Democratic Party!

[@AlexAnder-rv1gu]

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

[@deniswauchope3788]

Group projects are deadly to free thinkers. It's like a crab-pot; when one starts climbing out, the others drag him back!

[@bostonphotographer20]

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."

[@ashleypenn7845]

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.

[@gregj831]

Well said. What you wrote really does sound chilling.

[@mikeguilmette776]

Now that you mention it, I did see more group projects being assigned when I was in college in the '90s . . .

[@ronnyvonallmen6892]

My Daughter was taught Victimhood at her Public School…Once full of Confidence and Excitement about Life and All She could become…Once a Joy to be around. She has become Miserable and Exhausting to be with…How Very “Bleak”her life has become….

[@jennifergersch9126]

Generally speaking, the more narrow your worldview, the bleaker it is.

[@georgiakritikos4955]

General Patton "MAKING UP CIRCUMSTANCE TO FIT PLANS IS DANGEROUS "

[@stavjfhssf7054]

The KING IS BACK. Welcome back Stossel, we've missed you. Hope you and your family are doing fine.

[@Uvoted4this]

CHAO$ CREATE$ CA$H that's why they ALL do it!

[@MirzaAhmed89]

This is an old video.

[@clvrswine]

What a lame comment.

[@JonHulett]

I am a Libertarian opposing DEI and social (in)justice, and I am exhausted thanks to SJWs.

[@Arturo-p1g4y]

Slow clap

[@McVaio]

That's part of their goal.

[@jeffro-xj1]

@@McVaio Relentless sacks of manure they are! They always double or triple down when their ideology gets punched in the face.

[@exsang]

This is how most people feel about libertarians. Oh tell me more about the gold standard or laissez faire.

[@eastbaykidd8574]

@@exsang Your insecurity is quite apparent.

[@stavjfhssf7054]

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

[@wildmouse5888]

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.

[@mikeottersole]

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.

[@RNGirlMomma]

Thank you !!! The world needs this.

[@HolyGuacamolean]

John Stossel! An OG in the journalism world. Back when journalists were JOURNALISTS. Glad I came across this channel.

[@jeng1395]

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?

[@chuckcassidymusic]

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.

[@kimberlyschreder2046]

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.

[@usafvet100]

SEL is a Trojan Horse for injectin̈g woke ideology into subjects like math and science. When introducing a math story problem, you are expected to waste time exploring the power dynamics of the fictional characters in the problem before leading the students to determine what relevant information the problem gives, what question the problem asks, and what would be the most efficient mathematical strategy/operation to use to solve the problem. I retired a few years ago, and it's just as well. I wouldn't teach CRT, DEI, or the purple unicorn curriculum at gunpoint. "Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me, Amen." (Martin Luther)

[@kenfett7070]

If you're in South East PA, my school is looking for a Spanish teacher. We are a catholic private girls college prep school. Our girls are amazing!

[@carlfowler1297]

Read this, shaking my head. This is how skilled educators like you are lost to the mob mentality. I’d WANTED to teach at one point, but like your story and many others - some from close friends - the administrative party line BS kept me from making the leap.

[@robertd9850]

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.

[@JonHulett]

This video DEFINES the college experience

[@Deeptunester]

I am forever grateful that I got my degree and got out before this kind of stuff really got a foothold on campuses.

[@purefunguy]

Yeah. College is a big scam

[@black_squall]

Thankyou Mr. Stossel

[@axidhaus]

John thank you for having an independent voice

[@DaleSteadman]

It is so disturbing that universities are teaching our kids to be more divided than unified.

[@youngsandwich2792]

By no mistake!

[@joeyGalileoHotto]

@@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.

[@douglasolsen6861]

Starts in public schools…

[@trechernga1299]

Exactly. They were created and called "Universities" for a reason.

[@jennifergersch9126]

United we rise, divided we fall.

[@dcooke4933]

The people who did this need to be held responsible and accountable

[@9Below]

✡️

[@angelfish2529]

Good luck with that.

[@robertbiermann4666]

The only emotion stronger than fear is hope. Evil peddles fear. Good professes hope. This is a war older than man with the stakes being the souls of people. You heard it firsthand from the people in the video.

[@petrmiros9908]

Never gonna happen, you would have to arrest 80% of Western political and financial elite.

[@TheMagnificentMongoSlade]

"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.

[@Bill-vo1wn]

Teachers need to be held accountable. 😊

[@r.c.3263]

Try administration and government who make teachers follow these ridiculous curriculum

[@williamjefferson3426]

John stossel, Keep putting out your content! Keep reporting.

[@wolfevickery6081]

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.

[@valeriestevens5250]

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?

[@kimberlygraham8565]

😂… 💩

[@tiakolovos575]

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.

[@Rob-uv6fb]

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.

[@gregj831]

Great idea

[@Rob-uv6fb]

I commented but youtube removed it for some reason, curious if this gets removed too.

[@mikeottersole]

A certain kind of politics. Starts with the letters progr..., Dem..., often accompanied by wo...

[@jhandlebar9015]

I was going to hire this kid right out of college, but I failed they/them's mother's interview process.

[@headpump]

😂😂😂

[@travismears5993]

WTF

[@trechernga1299]

Ha! 😂

[@AmyraBatyah]

Good to know that even _they_ questioned the nonsense they were hearing, but they were just too afraid to say so for a while. That's why those who have courage should speak the TRUTH. It obviously resonates with more people than we think.

[@pdxnikki1]

Thank you for covering this! Free the mind!

[@jeremeyunger6568]

Most of us have been saying this for years. Since the beginning of the participation trophy era.

[@watchyoursix8841]

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.

[@LordOfNihil]

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.

[@Michael-rx7ff]

MA student here. This video is spot-on! Last month, we had a two hour class dedicated to “the inherent queerness of the internet.”

[@McVaio]

What a waste of your precious time on Earth.

[@hassanbeydoun2460]

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😁

[@jestawell]

Ohhh so what’s your major?

[@RandomWandrer]

🤢 🤕 🤮 🤢 🤕 🤮 🤢 🤕 🤮 🤢 🤕

[@SimonSezSo]

Great report, John. Sounds like that Documentary should be part of EVERY college student's Orientation.

[@rareword]

We are all victims of victims of victimization.

[@wmrustycox]

Yet another great video by John... thank you John Stossel for your insightful videos that have a great way of getting at the truth !!!

[@DUKEzors]

The like button seemed like a micro aggression, so I smashed it.

[@samhelsel443]

You win!!!

[@TalentDevo]

Hilarious

[@elmofeneken4364]

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".

[@stavjfhssf7054]

Babe wake up, John Stossel is here ready again to spit out facts

[@carrollsanders9376]

Fox News Faxs LMFAO!😂😂

[@Charles.Wright]

No one: This stupid comment template

[@fyfyi6053]

@@carrollsanders9376 And where did you get most of ur education from. ur local antifa meeting of Moe Rons?

[@fyfyi6053]

@@carrollsanders9376 and where did u get most of ur education from.

[@fyfyi6053]

@@carrollsanders9376 y ur local antifa meeting of Moe Rons?

[@larrya7822]

When I went to college I didn't have that problem. I knew the college teachers were a bunch of idiots.

[@Andrew-if3sd]

A few aren't, by my Canadian experience, they were just made afraid of p c feminism control, and feared losing their jobs

[@drt9424]

Thank you for the voice John!

[@TheChosennn]

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

[@Jim49446]

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.

[@GeneralG1810]

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.

[@iamhis5580]

@@GeneralG1810 to be honest words can hurt, but you have to learn as an adult to deal with it and move on

[@KalebSDay]

Gotta pay more attention to the words of those we'd care to take advice from or spend quality time with.

[@GeneralG1810]

@@iamhis5580 Being hurt by words is a CHOICE, and instead of giving kids tools to deal with it, these days we're teaching them to be easily offended cry babies. How is that helpful?

[@ashleypenn7845]

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.

[@roryolson61]

With any trade your children will be able to own their own business before the indoctrination of their peers graduate college!

[@LebanonBologna40]

Same here!

[@vobden]

They will do extremely well learning a trade, supply and demand shows they will make great money

[@HLBNZ]

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.

[@michaelcraig9449]

What are they winning? A little shiny prize?

[@Nirvana7734]

Thank you, John & company, for raising awareness of the work of Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. The Coddling of the American Mind is an extremely valuable work to help us undo the damage and deleterious values that have been taught to our youths by misguided facets of our culture.

[@SMetz-cw6qj]

Thanks for your videos, John!

[@GregoryLowry-po3sf]

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.

[@aqdrobert]

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.

[@carlcrasmussen]

No this is the poisoning of peoples Minds, the continuation of the Frankfurt School

[@benburndred2226]

❤thank you! How many of us are out there, that know where this shit comes from?

[@sdrc92126]

@@benburndred2226 It's gnostic alchemy

[@peterbrunsgaard2012]

My favorite journalist! ⚡️⚡️👏👏🙏🙏

[@timelapsega]

Coddling of the American Mind is an amazing book! Really glad they're making it into a movie!

[@JH-ex6mb]

One of my best life decisions was to skip college and go straight to work.

[@DanDBatMan]

Ditto

[@LinA-it9vd]

One of my best decisions was to go to university and work to put myself through.

[@Strideo1]

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.

[@LinA-it9vd]

@ 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.

[@brekedekdang39]

Now that you mention it, I wish I didn't go to University.

[@dkibler1974]

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.

[@James01520]

Well done JS. Thank you for all you do.

[@22trident45]

John, thanks for introducing us to this topic even though we knew about it all along but were afraid to discuss it with certain people. I'm still working on a couple of friends to have them open their eyes and at least just "listen" to the fabled other side.

[@foximoxi8533]

I went to Fort Lewis College in Colorado. I was totally indoctrinated into a radical, communist-adjacent mindset. I was constantly told I should feel guilty for my whiteness and I should personally go out of my way to uplift other students of color. My final straw? My sociology professor for my final year asked me to share my final paper and presentation with a native student because “she needs the help”. I said, “No.”

[@ArthurCSchaperMR]

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.

[@leethomas4247]

It starts much younger than this.

[@a1productionllc]

Dear John, we are in the middle of a cultural crisis. Thank you for helping to show it, and for pointing out the solution: thinking for ourselves. Have a good new year.

[@joelwhitson9874]

I love that Orange County, California got a shout out. It's a great place to live. Great job as usual Mr. Stossel.

[@mlcarey1000]

Best book ever. Reading it made sense to me & helped me understand why children had become so fragile. Im focusing on helping my grandchildren become resilient and confident to face everyday life.

[@momo_genX]

Thank you,John. We need this honest journalism in this world today.

[@georgewengler5396]

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.

[@kannlowery]

I’m beginning to wonder if that’s what they want…

[@jeffro-xj1]

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.

[@kenneth9874]

That's the plan.

[@kimberlygraham8565]

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.

[@earthwormscrawl]

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.

[@earthwormscrawl]

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.

[@roseyrosaryprincess]

As someone from Generation Z, it's really heartening to see this being discussed more. It's so easy to fall into the trap of self-pity and victimhood if that is what you're taught growing up, as I was. Thanking God that He saved me from that fate. I hope that more children can be spared from this sort of ideological brainwashing and that more young adults get the resources they need to turn to critical-thinking.

[@timmcclure2096]

Nice video. Its good to see young people are seeing the lie they have been told. Thanks.

[@Makepedrogreatagain]

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.

[@georgeford6439]

If we could just get these kids to read Dr Sowell.....

[@MarvelNot]

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.

[@usafvet100]

​@@MarvelNotIf group A is outperforming group B, the only acceptable explanation is that A is oppressing and exploiting B in some unspecified manner. Any society that demonizes success and champions failure is foredoomed.

[@tommym3886]

sure, and Thomas Piketty, Karl Polyani, Kenneth Pomeranz, etc. I don’t agree with Sowell but the issue is no one actually reads anything at all. None of these socialists (nor the people railing against them for that matter) actually have read Marx or Engels

[@museinglis1979]

High School & College were the best years of my life! I’m 45 now, graduated high school in 96/97… What the freak happened!? 😅

[@irecruitfish7410]

This needs more attention...

[@Jindy2]

Thank God there are young people like the ones you are presenting here who can see right through the crap that the universities have dished up over the past 10 years. They will lead their cohort out of this darkness.

[@Richforce1]

"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.

[@pizzapartytime1826]

Except “ I’m sorry but he/she didn’t make it” or He or She have passed away

[@MoBangFoYoBucks]

Those who can't do, go teach! And corrupt young minds while hiding in that institution.🤦‍♂️

[@neighbor9672]

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.

[@MoBangFoYoBucks]

@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.

[@chriskelley7979]

I graduated in 2011. Looking back, I saw it brewing and being packaged

[@ellas.1297]

I graduated in 2002 and saw it back then … I remember having a silly debate about Irish History day (my one friend was Irish, the other a Canadian and they were arguing over the importance of a black history month … the Canadian said that the slavery the Irish went through wasn’t as bad as the black people’s so it shouldn’t be commemorated. I was appalled. I asked them about Jewish people and why they don’t have a history month … and Canadian guy was dumbfounded and just said that they were not enslaved and have lots of money now …) so it already started way back in the late 90s.

[@jrr570]

Preach it, Mr. Stossel! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@oruiz2]

Great job as always John