From The Mouths of Babes...Comes Babble

So the teenage attention-seekers from Florida are now comparing themselves to this nation's Founders, based on nothing more than being similar in age???  Ugh.  I have a few thoughts on this, but as a teacher, I'll defer to Marta at the Victory Girls blog:

There’s this meme going around the Internet that discourages criticism of the student activists involved in the latest opportunistic push for gun control. Generation Snowflake is comparing itself to the Founding Fathers, because of the similarities in age, trying to answer valid criticisms of their ignorance about domestic policy, constitutional law, and the philosophy of natural rights. They are also incapable of rational thought, and often hump logical fallacies and contradictions like rabid badgers during mating season, but we can’t criticize them because they’re the same age as some of the Founders.

But we’re supposed to listen to Generation Snowflake, because they somehow have the moral authority to speak on domestic policies about which they know exactly jack and shit?

We’re supposed to refrain from criticism about their obviously uninformed opinions, because they’ve been through what had to be a traumatic experience?

We’re supposed to ignore their errors in reasoning, false equivalencies, and flawed analysis fed to them by groups with obvious political agendas, because our Founding Fathers were around the same age when they took up arms and started a revolution?

Hate to tell you this, Snowflakes, but people like Henry Lee, Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and Lafayette took up actual ARMS – things you want to see banned – and went to war against a tyrannical government. They bled. They fought. Hamilton was an aide-de-camp to General George Washington at the ripe old age of about 21...

Meanwhile, you easily manipulated, hysterical children eat Tide pods, forcing idiot, reactionary legislators to consider new regulations to protect idiots like you; think social media = education and refuse to delve deeper and learn, because it’s just toooooo haaaaaard; can’t do basic research to determine how your local sheriff’s department chain of command works; expect participation trophies for merely breathing; and get so triggered at the mere mention of a gun in the classroom – even if it’s a teacher reassuring his students that he would risk his life protecting them and rationally discussing arming teachers and increasing school security – that you have to be accompanied out of class lest you clutch your pearls too hard and strangle yourselves in the process!

Go read the whole thing. The key point seems to be that you should accomplish something substantial before you dare compare yourselves to the Founders.  The kids we've been seeing on TV might start by accomplishing something.