Students For Liberty
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We are building a global network of elite young leaders passionate about liberty.
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In this video, Milton Friedman discusses the ideas and attitudes behind the ills of Public Education.
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POV: You’re a welfare-state advocate debating Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell at the same time
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"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty." — Margaret Thatcher
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Want to learn how to think clearly in a world of emotional manipulation? We created a free course teaching you to question narratives, evaluate evidence, and build intellectual resilience: 👉 https://t.co/vGcaQAS5IG Stop being fragile. Start thinking for yourself.
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You weren't told the truth: Growth requires discomfort. Resilience comes from overcoming challenges. Maturity means managing emotions, not being controlled by them. The real world won't give you trigger warnings. It's time to build actual strength.
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The consequences are everywhere: Record anxiety and depression. Inability to handle workplace feedback. Expecting the world to accommodate your feelings. Seeing disagreement as violence. This isn't making you safer. It's making you unemployable and miserable.
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Haidt warns: "The culture of safety is debilitating. Those who embrace a 'marginalized' identity become more fragile and morally dependent." Translation: The very systems claiming to protect you are making you weaker and less capable of functioning in the real world.
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Untruth #3: "Life is a battle between good people and bad people" Rich vs. poor. White vs. black. Men vs. women. Every issue becomes a moral war with designated heroes and villains. This binary thinking makes it impossible to understand complex problems or find real solutions.
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Here's what they didn't tell you: Feelings aren't facts. Discomfort isn't damage. Being challenged intellectually isn't being attacked personally. But if you never learned to separate feelings from reality, you can't think clearly about hard problems.
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Untruth #2: "Always trust your feelings" If something makes you uncomfortable, it must be wrong. If you feel offended, that's proof of harm. This sounds compassionate. It's actually teaching you to be a slave to your emotions instead of learning to manage them.
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Think about it. Your parents faced rejection, failure, and conflict as kids. It sucked. But they learned to recover. You were protected from all of that. Participation trophies. Grade inflation. Adults intervening at the first sign of struggle. Result? Emotional fragility.
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Untruth #1: "What doesn't kill you makes you weaker" You were taught to avoid discomfort at all costs. Trigger warnings. Safe spaces. Microaggression reporting. The promise: protection from harm. The reality: you never built resilience. And now ordinary challenges feel
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Jonathan Haidt analyzed campus culture, mental health data, and generational shifts. His conclusion? Three "great untruths" are being taught to young Americans as wisdom. But they're the opposite of wisdom. They're psychological poison.
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Three ideas everyone told you would help you are actually destroying your generation. A social psychologist at NYU spent years studying why Gen Z has record anxiety and depression. What he found will make you question everything about how you were raised. 🧵
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“Consumers don't produce inflation. Producers don't produce inflation. Inflation is produced only by too much government spending and too much government creation of money, and nothing else.” — Milton Friedman
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"The most important event in the history of the last hundred years is the displacement of liberalism by etatism. Statism appears in two forms: socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state, the social
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