You’ve asked it yourself, and Cat Stevens sang it, “Oh! Very young, what will you leave us this time?…There’ll never be a better chance to change your mind/And if you want the world to see a better day/Will you carry the words of love with you…?”
The answer is either, “Probably not,” or “Maybe, but not highly likely.”
So, where in ten years or so will the minds of those students who demonstrated and threatened a teacher at NYC’s Hillcrest High School be? Will they still linger in the show of hate they recently exhibited toward one of their teachers, a female who attended a pro-Israel rally? Will they carry their indoctrinated antisemitism into their twenties, thirties, and beyond, maybe to their graves? Will they actively seek a better day?
The students at the Queens high school staged at bit of a riot that had the teacher hiding behind a locked door. They staged a walk out; they demanded her removal. They carried Palestinian flags.*
Whereas it might be noble to wish for a better life for Palestinians caught in the oppressive grip of Hamas, it isn’t noble to support the cause of Palestinians’ oppressors. And if you asked those students to point to Israel on a map…(or for that matter, even point to Queens on a map…)…or ask them to consider that Queens is the most diverse genetic accumulation on the planet, a true “melting pot” of the world’s genome…Well, let’s not stress the frontal cortexes when the amygdalae are at work.
See, the answer to the question posed by Cat Stevens is apparently, “Probably not.” Indoctrinated minds are hard to change, especially in the absence of knowledge about world realities and in the presence of social media that drive teen emotions and spread ideas. The teens at Hillcrest High will believe they have marched for some worthy cause unless they experience what it means to live under a tyrannical terror group. In walking out, they imprinted their own minds with antisemitism while evading both class and homework.
The mayor of NYC has expressed his outrage, but he’s as helpless to stop the seed of hate from growing as he is to stop each generations’ bullies from bullying. The young are molded by causes and emotions that they rarely contemplate. They act without considering consequences save those grounded in inescapable realities, like living within the realm of brutal tyrants.
If Mayor Adams wants to educate NYC’s students in the affairs of other countries and the realities of groups like Hamas, then he needs to start an exchange program, one that sends Hillcrest walkouts to Gaza, the West Bank, southern Lebanon, and Syria. But, of course, no such exchange program will exist, and students reared in the midst of the world’s most diverse gathering of Homo sapiens sapiens, will never see a better day.
*https://nypost.com/2023/11/25/metro/mayor-eric-adams-rips-vile-show-of-antisemitism-at-nyc-school/
The answer is either, “Probably not,” or “Maybe, but not highly likely.”
So, where in ten years or so will the minds of those students who demonstrated and threatened a teacher at NYC’s Hillcrest High School be? Will they still linger in the show of hate they recently exhibited toward one of their teachers, a female who attended a pro-Israel rally? Will they carry their indoctrinated antisemitism into their twenties, thirties, and beyond, maybe to their graves? Will they actively seek a better day?
The students at the Queens high school staged at bit of a riot that had the teacher hiding behind a locked door. They staged a walk out; they demanded her removal. They carried Palestinian flags.*
Whereas it might be noble to wish for a better life for Palestinians caught in the oppressive grip of Hamas, it isn’t noble to support the cause of Palestinians’ oppressors. And if you asked those students to point to Israel on a map…(or for that matter, even point to Queens on a map…)…or ask them to consider that Queens is the most diverse genetic accumulation on the planet, a true “melting pot” of the world’s genome…Well, let’s not stress the frontal cortexes when the amygdalae are at work.
See, the answer to the question posed by Cat Stevens is apparently, “Probably not.” Indoctrinated minds are hard to change, especially in the absence of knowledge about world realities and in the presence of social media that drive teen emotions and spread ideas. The teens at Hillcrest High will believe they have marched for some worthy cause unless they experience what it means to live under a tyrannical terror group. In walking out, they imprinted their own minds with antisemitism while evading both class and homework.
The mayor of NYC has expressed his outrage, but he’s as helpless to stop the seed of hate from growing as he is to stop each generations’ bullies from bullying. The young are molded by causes and emotions that they rarely contemplate. They act without considering consequences save those grounded in inescapable realities, like living within the realm of brutal tyrants.
If Mayor Adams wants to educate NYC’s students in the affairs of other countries and the realities of groups like Hamas, then he needs to start an exchange program, one that sends Hillcrest walkouts to Gaza, the West Bank, southern Lebanon, and Syria. But, of course, no such exchange program will exist, and students reared in the midst of the world’s most diverse gathering of Homo sapiens sapiens, will never see a better day.
*https://nypost.com/2023/11/25/metro/mayor-eric-adams-rips-vile-show-of-antisemitism-at-nyc-school/
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