The reason why publications like National Lampoon and The Onion lost their audience is daily life has become so ridiculous there’s no need to lampoon it. Post-modern means, among other things, farcical. This little gem is a great example.
Georgetown University (GU) student who says he was mugged at gunpoint says he “can hardly blame” his assailants.
Senior Oliver Friedfeld and his roommate were held at gunpoint and mugged recently. However, the GU student isn’t upset. In fact he says he “can hardly blame [his muggers].”
“Not once did I consider our attackers to be ‘bad people.’ I trust that they weren’t trying to hurt me. In fact, if they knew me, I bet they’d think I was okay,” wrote Friedfeld in an editorial featured in The Hoya, the university’s newspaper. “The fact that these two kids, who appeared younger than I, have even had to entertain these questions suggests their universes are light years away from mine.”
Friedfeld claims it is the pronounced inequality gap in Washington, D.C. that has fueled these types of crimes. He also says that as a middle-class man, he does not have the right to judge his muggers.
“Who am I to stand from my perch of privilege, surrounded by million-dollar homes and paying for a $60,000 education, to condemn these young men as ‘thugs?’” asks Friedfeld. “It’s precisely this kind of ‘otherization’ that fuels the problem.”
Police also aren’t the solution to the problem, Friedfeld argues.
“If we ever want opportunistic crime to end, we should look at ourselves first. Simply amplifying police presence will not solve the issue. Police protect us by keeping those ‘bad people’ out of our neighborhood, and I’m grateful for it. And yet, I realize it’s self-serving and doesn’t actually fix anything.”
Friedfeld suggests that the “privileged” adapt to normalized crime, until the wrongs of the past are righted.
“The millennial generation is taking over the reins of the world, and thus we are presented with a wonderful opportunity to right some of the wrongs of the past,” writes Friedfeld. “Until we do so, we should get comfortable with sporadic muggings and break-ins. I can hardly blame them. The cards are all in our hands, and we’re not playing them.”
Friedfeld did not respond to Campus Reform’s request for comment in time for publishing.
This is common at our elite colleges and universities. Some time ago I was visiting with a friend who was at Yale Divinity. In the grad school bar we took in the scene and too many beers. What stood out was just how socially awkward and submissive the men were compared to what one would expect in a normal college setting. My friend said it was worse with the graduates than the undergrads, but he was probably splitting hairs. He called them a generation of suckups, which looked about right.
I can’t help but think it would have been better for all concerned if the robbers had pulled the trigger on poor Oliver.
When I think of Millenials, I become very afraid for this country. These young people have been largely coddled their whole lives. So many of them have had over-involved helicopter parents, never allowing their kids to fail, rarely allowing them free time as they were shuttled from one activity to another, including “play dates”. Everyone is equal, diversity of skin color but not thought, everyone gets a medal. Most Millenials have a Hive mentality. There’s not much in the way of original thought. I know a lot of Millenials, 2 of my 3 kids are younger Millenials. We raised them to think for themselves and to take responsibility for themselves, yet they both still gravitate to the Hive. When I point this out to them, they laugh. When I tell them how changed the country is from when I was their age and how they have far less freedom, they say “no one cares about that”. It’s really disheartening. They think I’m getting all worked up over nothing. My daughter is too young to be a Millenial. Hopefully her generational cohort will be different.
Just another coddled eunuch so concerned with finding ways to advertise his high-mindedness and “empathy” that he hasn’t bothered to learn how the world actually works.
Millennials love to congratulate themselves on their ability to “understand” why another person might do an awful thing, but they never seem to bother with how they might prevent the other person from doing the awful thing in the first place.
One presumes that he can avoid blaming his attackers because they didn’t pull the trigger and possibly reduce his life to that of a paraplegic. He got, unlike some, to walk away and still type in an controlled, if not always sensible, fashion.
He also can dream about how these muggers would ‘think I was okay’ if they knew him. Some others may not be so sure about that.
But his final, slap-in the-face for civilisation is that he magnanimously acknowledges the “police protect us by keeping those ‘bad people’ out of our neighborhood, and I’m grateful for it.” But, being a libtard, perhaps not as grateful as all that.
Will he feel the same after mugging number five, say?
What’s that dude’s address? I want to go take all his stuff, slap him to tears and wake him wipe my dog’s butt the next time she drops a deuce. Homeboy ought to take that sixty grand and get a spine and testes transplant. What a feckless homo.