Kid Control

This is what happens when you let children take over:

Activism by kids has been an American ritual since the 1960s. There's a romance to the idea of waving the bloody shirt and calling your compatriots to do battle with the "elites," the "establishment," or "the man" that makes a teenager feel all grown-up and important. There's no thought of consequences or who they might be hurting by their actions. What do you suppose Israeli mothers who have lost a son or daughter to Hamas terrorism feel when they see the children of their powerful ally screaming, "From the River to the sea, Palestine will be free"? Are the kids able to discern the not-very-subtle call for genocide against the Jews? Or, like children soothed by a fairy tale, do they accept the lie that the call for genocide is only "aspirational"? Columbia University tried to treat the children like adults by negotiating with them. For two weeks, they sat in the same room as the children kept "moving the goalposts," making agreement impossible. In the end, they discovered that the kids, as is usually the case, really didn't know what they wanted and were only "negotiating" as a ruse to keep the media circus alive. That's half the problem with these protests. The adults who should be in control have ceded virtual authority to the children, and the result has been chaos. The large question to be asked is why we are paying so much attention to these kids.

Because they demand it...