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Thank you for writing this. As someone who was canceled by his progeny several years ago when he was starting college, I can relate to this phenomenon. I should have known there would be a problem when he started coming home from high school saying that everything was "racist", but I was blind to the brainwashing that was taking place.

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That said, it's a sad commentary on society that we glorify, raise up, publish a person for simply not hating her parents (anymore) and (finally) being civil, and that we even seem to need role models for same. Not to spiral down the nature vs nurture debate, but is the author a product of her schooling in this regard? Her upbringing? Either one would be oddly circular: her parents raised her well, yet she rebelled and went "counter-culture" on them; schooling would've been the place where she picked up her counterculture, perhaps, yet schooling is where she also picked up the background and basis for finding her center again (according to her). So, to boil it down: teens rebel, in one shape or form. Eventually they stop (hopefully). It falls upon "the grownups in the room" to install and maintain adequate guardrails so that this rebellion does not get out of hand. Paint your hair, don't burn down a city. Travel the world taking a year off of college, don't destroy a society out of petulance. But the guardrails seem to be gone, and in their place seems to just be fear, complacency and apathy. One child finding balance is nice, but how can we do this at scale, and faster?

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The attitude always is that the lefty is of course on the right side of history and deigns to tolerate the people he or she encounters and with whom she disagrees. Amazing. Smug.

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I got that sense too. The writer is the enlightened one, but because of her superior intellect and тАЬawakeningтАЭ she can tolerate her intellectually inferior parents now. Nice!

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Sorry your progeny are being so short sighted.

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