It seems laughable even as it is sadly true. Students at Emory University protested after a series of “chalkings” on the Emory campus in Atlanta, Georgia that sported the message “Trump 2016” supposedly left them traumatized and looking for their safe spaces. Students said they were frightened after someone wrote ‘Trump 2016’ in chalk around campus.

“You are not listening! Come speak to us, we are in pain!” chanted the students, addressing University administration, while they waved signs that read  “Stop Trump” or “Stop Hate,” reported Sam Budnyk in ”The Emory Wheel” on Tuesday.

“I’m supposed to feel comfortable and safe [here],” said one student. “But this man is being supported by students on our campus.”

How sad and how much and changed in little than a 100 years. In 1917, when the U.S. Army Surgeon General William Gorgas asked for medical professionals to volunteer for the war effort, doctors and nurses from Emory answered the call to serve. They took training on the campus and in 1918 a WWI base was established in Blois, France. It was known as the Emory Unit because so many personnel came from Emory. The unit was again called to service during WWII and personnel served in Algeria and France.

The students must be oblivious to what is going on in the world or perhaps they do not care. Emory University is a private institution that was founded in 1836. Emory University has been ranked 21st among the nation’s top universities in the new 2015 Best Colleges guidebook from U.S. News & World Report. Tuition for Emory University, as listed by their Office of Financial Aid is $44,000, campus room & board is another $12,760. Do you see something wrong here? This is school is hardly affordable for most young people to attend without parental help.

Many men and women of a different mindset join the United States military in order to obtain the GI Bill in return for their dedication to military service. Yet, Emory students are demanding their rights to express themselves in a way that is fear-free. One University junior said the “Accept the Inevitable: Trump 2016” chalking was “alarming.” This chalking is supposed to cause pain?

What exactly are they teaching at this school?  University President James W. Wagner noted that the chalkings represented “values regarding diversity and respect that clash with Emory’s own.”

Hey Jim Wagner, how about you stop pandering to our wimpy student body and start telling them about sacrificing one’s own safety, security and joy in order to care for others, in order to put others first, in order to get a glimpse of what real pain and suffering is? Physicians and nurses sacrificed a lot by enlisting and travelling to France and anywhere else they were needed in order to care for the injured. I haven’t even begun to write about the millions of Marines, Soldiers, Airmen and Sailors that served this nation and thereby helping other nations in order that these students had an opportunity to have a pain-free campus.

Today students complain about “microaggressions,” they experience, they demand that schools dis-invite speakers whom they do not agree with, they partake in aggressive activism, and they shut speech down that they find offensive and which runs counter to their own point of view. Liberal intolerance is on the rise on America’s college campuses. There is a lack of respect for this nation, our teachers, other students perspectives and sadly these ‘children” are losing the ability to think for themselves. We are fostering hypersensitivity and conformity on campuses instead of instilling them with a respect for others. How are they going to learn mental and emotional toughness, resiliency, honorable individualism and exceptionalism if we don’t put some pressure on them to handle their privileged life? How are they ever going to learn.

Emory Students are complaining about feeling pain and being injured by words? Words? Get real…

Students at Emory need to get a clue. How about taking care of the war wounded and seeing what real emotional, psychological and physical pain is.

How about serving in the military and seeing how their fellow brothers and sisters live. How about truly learning about Cuba, Iran, Syria, China or Iraq in order to truly learn what pain is and isn’t? It seems that students who ran away from Vietnam have returned to occupy academia and tell every student they are a victim of something. Psychology Today has gathered information showing that students today have far too much neediness. Seems like they need to get over themselves.

There are news reports that Emory school administrators are attempting to track down those responsible for the controversial markings. Student organizations are providing counselling to anyone who may have been impacted by what they had seen. Is this for real? Grow up. How can we properly prepare our children to manage the world when they can’t seem to get out of the diaper stage?

Children like this need to grow up and stop being so self-obsessed with free speech. This is the free speech they want for themselves and yet deny to others. You wanted it America, you got it. There used to be a time where two people could have different opinions and have an intelligent conversation.

We need to bring that time back.