The Constitutional Crisis Among College Students – Da Tech Guy Blog

The Constitutional Crisis Among College Students – Da Tech Guy Blog:
"Many college students have become increasingly strident in their views about the U.S. Constitution despite understanding little about the document.
...This generation–known as iGen–were born between 1995 and 2012.
These young people have spent much of their lives with a smartphone in their hands.
Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University...“Opposing viewpoints can’t just be argued against; they have to be shut down,” she wrote recently in The Wall Street Journal.
For the most part, it appears that these viewpoints come from the social justice warriors they had as teachers.
In an online discussion for my law class, some students said they simply want to do away with the U.S. Constitution and start over. 
“The Constitution is America’s sacred cow,” one student wrote. 
“It was written by a bunch of rich, white men to protect other rich, white men. 
The framers did not trust ‘ordinary’ people to make every day decisions. 
It is a racist document, although others would argue this. 
It is completely ambiguous. 
It was written in 1787 and it is now 2017 and we still refer back to this document and debate what the framers truly meant…. 
Progressives want government to change things while conservatives favor the status quo.”