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I Was Once an Unknowing Idealistic Kid Who Thought I Had ‘It’ All Figured Out
America’s ‘pro-Gaza’ kids need to gently pull their heads out of their asses and realize that voting for Trump is worse than voting for Harris.
I am a cultural warrior. When I was an undergraduate student at Rutgers College in New Jersey, I took an amazing class with a professor whose name was, quite aptly, Dr. Strange. Standing six feet tall and weighing around 200, she had fiery red hair and a loud, table-rattling laugh. Dr. Strange introduced me to cultural anthropology.
Dr. Strange loved my observations and the work I did. That inspired me more, and I fell in love with the notion of becoming a cultural anthropologist. But there was only one major problem. I became too involved with the subjects of my studies. It would be as if Jane stripped off her clothes and squatted behind the alpha male gorilla to pick bugs off his back. Each culture I began to study quickly pulled me in, making me, in many ways, “one of them.”
This is the problem I have with these kids today who are threatening not to vote for Kamala Harris because Israeli has been viciously killing residents of Gaza. Most of the misinformed kids know absolutely nothing about Gazan culture or the overall…
