A Virus on Campus: The Intolerant’s Agenda

It’s always nice to wake up, make coffee, and open the wonderful Fizz app, where I get my daily dose of quality Dartmouth news. On October 16, I was greeted by perhaps the least surprising news I could possibly hear: Parkhurst Hall was vandalized by some tolerant and understanding anti-Israel students.

Having been raised in a generation without any regard for historical norms, morals, or duties, many modern college students seem to lack meaning and purpose in life. With a somewhat large population of the student body being uninterested in serving God, family, or country, there is – thankfully – an almost sufficient alternative: being a full-time leftist. 

I, personally, might identify as a more conservative person, but I only talk about politics when it’s appropriate. It certainly isn’t my entire personality. On the other hand, being a full-time leftist means that a person’s primary purpose is to wake up and be miserable. 

It is to hate the institutions that serve them, hate the people that raised them, hate the country that has given them their freedom to hate openly, and—most importantly—it is to hate anyone who might disagree with what they have to say. 

If their opinions are so important, what is it that these people actually believe? It’s not in middle-grounds, independent thought, or the critical analysis of facts. What they believe is any social issue that captures their hearts. 

Hardcore leftists don’t need their brains to be healed with logic (well perhaps, but that’s not what I’m talking about), but rather their hearts to be filled with meaning. In the case of 2024, these people just so happen to have dedicated themselves to the cause of destroying Israel. 

Honestly, I miss the good old days when their purpose was just to stand with poor Ukraine, not to support terrorist groups like Hamas or Hezbollah or to call for an Israeli genocide.

Sian Beilock has a tense relationship with the social warriors on campus. Regardless of what one might think about the president’s performance, Beilock has done her best to keep Dartmouth a prestigious Ivy League institution during this global conflict (unlike Columbia for example). 

I appreciate that our campus is a place where the vast majority of us, the intelligent and respectful student body, may come together to share ideas, using our brains first. 

We should do so, talking about issues like foreign conflicts, crime, gun violence, environmental challenges, etc. But, when the conversation is over, friends should carry on with respect for each other, and we should not allow political issues to run our lives or ruin our happiness.

The vandalism of Parkhurst is only the latest sign of a growing problem at Dartmouth and across the nation: the intolerance that has come with a generation lacking in purpose or meaning.     

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