Are Young People Depressed Because of What They Were Taught in College?
Colleges went mad.
They charge students big bucks and then make them feel guilty.
My new video looks at a new documentary called The Coddling of the American Mind. It persuasively suggests that today, young people are anxious and depressed because “adults” at their schools brainwashed them.
Students like Lucy Kross Wallace at Stanford.
“I was anxious,” she says. “I felt guilty constantly. I couldn’t stop thinking about the white privilege thing.”
Kimi Katiti attended The Art Institute of California and now says, “I feel like I lost my life for six years. I was full of self-confidence when I was 18. But in college, that disintegrated.”
Katiti, who is black, was taught that she is a victim of “microaggressions” from white people who say things like, “You’re so articulate,” or, “Can I touch your hair?”
“I began to see myself through the lens of black and a woman,” says Katiti. “If I see someone with their dog, for example, and the dog’s barking, I could interpret that as a racist microaggression.”
This new perspective began shaping every part of her life.
“To compete and get the best grades,” she says, “I showed how much of a victim I was in order to impress my professors.”
She didn’t think that was right, but she didn’t push back.
“I thought, I’m paying a lot, so [they must be] teaching me golden rules for life.”
She learned that it was important to censor speech by conservatives. Katiti joined a Twitter mob demanding that Twitter block Ben Shapiro’s posts.
“I would sit down, all the way through the night” looking for tweets to report. When Twitter didn’t block Shapiro, she’d “try again, try again.”
At Stanford, Kross Wallace was taught that Shapiro’s ideas put “black, brown, trans, queer, and Muslim students at ri
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