Today's Colleges and the Tyranny of the Minority

Today’s youth clearly needed to be raised better.   The spoiled brats I have seen on television lately have no regard for free speech, good grammar or proper language.  Instead, they will shout about their right to be heard, but God forbid anyone dare speak an opposing position.  That brave soul who dares take the negative in a debate is accused of every foul crime from matricide to the nebulous term “hate speech.”

Hate speech is evidently any opinion with which our current crop of rude louts disagree.  I would have thought that hate speech meant using crude, profane or threatening language (which, by the way, they use in abundance).  But, no.  Today’s youth don’t want to have to justify their positions with proven and observable fact, so they limit what they don’t want to hear to generic labels that no one can disagree with.   

            Lout:  “Are you in favor of hate speech?”

            Reasonable Person:  “No.”

            Lout:  “Then stop disagreeing with me because that is hateful.”

These collegiate louts (no, I refuse to call them students—students would be studying and showing the results of that study) also seem to think that the “f” word is a mark of punctuation.  They use it liberally through every sentence.  They shout down people who are trying to speak—even the people who are agreeing with them.  They are led like sheep, yell, demand, protest, spit on people, claim they are always in the right and anyone they don’t like is always in the wrong.  And, of course, they keep using that “f” word that immediately brands the speaker as an ignorant, belligerent bully who is trying to substitute sexual harassment for logic. 

But, I digress.  What I really wanted to talk about was a class that every one of these louts should have to take.  We should start the classes in middle school, and require refresher courses in high school and as part of your freshman requirements in college.  It is a class in parliamentary procedure. 

Parliamentary law balances the rights of individuals or groups with those of the entire body.  They protect the minority, but they also guard the rights of the majority.  You see, in this modern era of rule by spoiled brat, there is an assumption that the majority have no rights.  That idea is as wrong as the opposite assumption that the minority have none.  Thanks to the brainless and superficial rules of political correctness, there is a prevailing idea that minorities are, by definition, always right.  Majorities are always wrong.  Minority veracity is never to be questioned.  Majority veracity is always to be denied.  Minorities are always “owed” something.  Majorities are not to even be acknowledged.  All of this, of course is nonsense.

What I love about parliamentary law is that it acknowledges—even promotes—the following:

1)     The rights of the majority;

2)    the rights of the minority;

3)    the rights of individual members;

4)    the rights of those absent;

5)    the rights of all of these groups together

Ultimately, the will of the majority decides matters, but only after full and free discussion.   The rights of all must be protected.  While all members of the body have the right to speak, and not to be persecuted for that speech, the body still has the right to rule against them.  This runs counter to what the brats want.  They want all of their demands met with neither scrutiny nor deliberation.

If you want your side to win, have better arguments, not a louder voice, a more intimidating demeanor, or constant, constant, constant use of that cursed word!

Honor the majority and keep the faith.