Stacy McCain would like you to remember a few things about Rachel Corrie.
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College age kid trying to be a hippie, never realizing that their relevance ended in 1968. Sad that these has-been Boomers insist on trying to relive their misspent youth by indoctrinating our young and letting them blaze their own paths.
Why do I have the feeling that you aren’t old enough to understand what a “hippie” really is? It sounds as if you fling it forth against your opponents as some sort of slur.
Why do I get the feeling that you aren’t smart or educated enough to understand what a “hippie” really is? You sound as if you are unable to offer any meaningful criticism of your opponents’ position.
(rolls eyes) I know what I am, what are you?
I got over my college age issues early on. The same people who were denouncing the government supported even more authoritarian government. What fully sealed the deal was hearing another student defend Stalin. You cannot denounce Reagan as a “fascist” yet defend Stalin. Unless you are on the other side.
What’s being done to Rachel Corrie after her death is as sad as what happened to her in life. She was a pretty typical college student in that she had some stupid ideas about what is and what should be. That’s no big deal, college students are supposed to have a lot of stupid ideas. In fact, there’s no better time in life than college for stupid ideas.
But unlike most college students, whose activism goes no further than a few protests that may interrupt their class schedule but never their drinking schedule, Rachel Corrie had the courage of her stupid convictions. That courage got her killed before she had a chance to experience some life and realize how wrong she was. That’s a shame.
But as big a shame is that a bunch of people she didn’t even know have now frozen her, immortalized her, in her stupid phase so instead of going on with her life, her college activism something to be laughed about at football parties, she will now and for all eternity be St. Pancake.
Wrong as she may have been, she deserved a better fate.
No, college is when the stupid ideas are supposed to get squeezed out by intelligent ones. It should be a very bad time for stupid ideas.
The best time in life for stupid ideas is when you get them from the books Mommy or Daddy use to read you to sleep.
I couldn’t disagree more. There’s a reason for the saying, “If you’re conservative at 20, you have no heart; if you’re liberal at 40, you have no head.” Corrie was a lot closer to 20 than 40. Do you have no heart? (Or maybe you do but are unnecessarily ashamed of it?)
In college, you have the intellectual ability to argue and reason but have no perspective and little ability to control your passions. You also have no power or authority to put your reasoning in place. Adult life hasn’t started yet. That’s why it’s the best place to have stupid ideas.
Early childhood? No, that makes no sense at all.
YMMV. I outgrew stupid liberal ideas long before I was 20. And I thank you for the gratuitous personal insult, since I had edited one out of my previous reply.
Rachel knew deep down that the object of her hate, Israel, was inherently good and would stop the bull dozer rather than take her life. Her accidental death was tragic but avoidable had she not sided with those who grab children off the streets to use has human shields.