Am 2017-03-17 12:48, also sprach Stephen:
> On 3/17/2017 4:07 PM, dick balaska wrote:

>> That cuts both ways.  There was a Yale professor who wrote that maybe it
>> might be ok to wear a Halloween costume that may be considered mildly
>> offensive, and the snowflakes were not interested in the conversation;
>> and ran her, and her husband, out of town.
>> (I blame the parents, who have completely sheltered these kids their
>> entire lives.)
>>
>
> I blame the Americans who turned a cheap children's diversion into a
> money making racket.
> When I was a kid you got nuts and fruit for performing a party trick.
>
> Not for demanding money with menace.

Are you referencing Halloween specifically?

I am very disappointed with my generation.  As a teen in the 70s, we had 
the most freedom of any generation of kids *ever*.  And we turned that 
into being the worst overprotective helicopter parents.

We totally distrusted government (Nixon!) and now are totally fine with 
government surveillance and F-15s buzzing the CT coastline because "they 
are keeping us safe". Me: "Wtf?!? Safe from what!?"

-- 
dik

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