Jerry Seinfeld: ‘Woke Agenda Warps Children’

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld stood up to the woke mob earlier this year by debunking so-called “toxic masculinity.”

Around the same time, he also voiced his frustration with people’s over sensitivity with humor and expressed disgust for terrorist sympathizers surrounding the ongoing war in the Middle East.

The legendary comic has once again said what many others are thinking but have been reluctant to say, this time concerning emotions related to the election.

Manhattan’s Ethical Culture Fieldston School, a private K-12 institution located in the Bronx, recently announced plans to let students who “feel too emotionally distressed” with Tuesday’s night’s results, to skip classes the next day.

In a newsletter released from the $65,000 per year institution, officials noted this “may be a high-stakes and emotional time” for students.

Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld, who have three children, recently removed their youngest son from the school.

“This is why the kids hated it,” Jerry Seinfeld said.

“What kind of lives have these people led that makes them think that this is the right way to handle young people? To encourage them to buckle. This is the lesson they are providing, for ungodly sums of money.”

In modern parlance, Seinfeld is referring to “snowflakes” – individuals who are fragile and overly sensitive, quick to take easy offense. It’s a term and reference attributed to a 1996 book by Chuck Palahniuk titled, Fight Club.

“You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake,” says a character. “You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone, and we are all part of the same compost pile.”

Obviously, as Christians, we believe in the inherent value and beauty of every life. Each person is unique – but that doesn’t mean we need to be frail and thin-skinned when challenges and difficulties come our way.

“I can do all things through Him who strengthens me,” wrote the apostle Paul (Philippians 4:13). “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth,” wrote Paul to Timothy (2 Timothy 2:15).

Just three weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffered a minor heart attack while staying in the White House. Only three days later he gave a speech in Ottawa, an address in which he declared:

We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

Neither Churchill nor the members of the World War II generation were “snowflakes” – but tough, tenacious, gutty and gritty individuals who were willing to sacrifice their lives for the sake of future generations.

Giving children room to mourn or grieve an election by taking time off from school reveals the vacuousness of a worldview that has clearly made an idol of government. It pampers young people, preparing them for nothing but a world which better bend to their skewed and limited point of view. 

Perhaps the one bright side to students taking Wednesday off? At least for that one day, they won’t be exposed to the propaganda of the school’s radical worldview.

That is unless their parents subscribe to The New York Times – not that there’s anything wrong with that.

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