As the Hill noted, Sen. Ted Cruz has “rip[ped] student protesters.” While recently speaking on the Adam Carolla Show, Cruz certainly put them in their place. Carolla expressed his frustration with what was going on on college campuses and asked “are we getting soft? What’s going on in this country?”
As Cruz saw it, there is an “undermining” and “weakening.” When it comes to campus protesters, he referred to them as “these essentially pampered teenagers,” pointing out that “many of them from very wealthy homes.” Cruz also got right down to it with how they “complain that they don’t want to hear anything that they disagree with it, that it is a microaggression,” which he called “the most bizarre and anti-academic notion you can have.”
Cruz said he agrees with the idea that “the best cure for bad speech is more speech.” When it comes to what we should do about the protesters, he believes “we shouldn’t be raising a generation of young people who are so pampered that they’ve never heard anything that offends them” because “we don’t have a right not to be offended, we have a moral obligation to speak the truth and confront evil.”
The student sit-in at Princeton was used as a specific example, Cruz’s alma mater. Students occupied the university president’s office to demand that Woodrow Wilson’s name be removed from the school. While Cruz acknowledged that Wilson was “an unabashed racist,” he also condemned “the notion that we should somehow erase our country’s history,” which he called “this bizarre process.”
Cruz also found it ironic that student protesters were going after Wilson, whom Cruz described as a “leftist, big government liberal.”