We remember our high school principal, Cletus Street, saying some really “unwoke” things at a student assembly.

He told us that our parents might think we were special, but nobody else did.

He also said that if we were going to make anything of ourselves in the cold, cruel world that awaited us, we were going to have to work and produce.

While those words would be highly offensive to the professional victim class today, we didn’t take offense because we heard nearly the same speech at home – that place where we were supposed to be regarded as God’s gift to the world.

While we felt loved at home, we were never considered perfect and we had occasionally felt a strap across our backside to emphasize that point.

Our mother, bless her, was even known to verbally abuse us on occasion when she thought our words or actions were not acceptable.

Mother had a way with words that even a high school student could understand.

We believe most of our classmates had heard Mr. Street’s message at home, also.

Snowflakes (a common term now meaning people who think they are entitled to special privileges) were unknown in that long-ago era, which doesn’t seem long at all looking back.

We don’t often agree with anything former President Obama says, but he did make sense at a recent Obama Foundation event when he said:

“This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re always politically ‘woke’ and all that stuff. You should get over that quickly. The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who you are fighting may love their kids. And share certain things with you.”

It’s hard to believe he said such things, considering his example set off the current cultural craziness.

The professional victim class is very upset with Obama, apparently because he has betrayed the leftist mantra.

Or maybe it was because he hurt their little feelings. How dare he interrupt a temper tantrum and expect them to act like adults.

After all they have been told by their college professors and political candidates that they deserve to get everything free…and besides being told you have to be responsible is scary.

If they think this is “not fair” they’re going to have to get over it.

The spoiled brats have a major learning experience in store.

Columnist Derek Hunter, writing in Townhall, explains it in a few words: “ A rude awakening awaits the woke.”

He told of a weekend event in which a bunch of angry leftists in New York stormed the subway system, jumping the turnstiles to protest the policy of arresting people who do that, while carrying their progressive signs about “punching the police.”

Hunter related:

One of the organizing groups, calling itself “Decolonize This Place,” chanted, “It is our duty to fi ght for our freedom! It is our duty to win! We must love each other and support each other! We have nothing to lose but our chains!”

Hopefully, they will grow up before there is enough of them to overturn the system of government that doesn’t line them up in front of a wall and shoot them for such outlawry – just the kind of system they are pushing for.

Conservative writer Victor Davis Hanson has some thoughts on the same subject in a column he headlined “Universities breed woke and broke graduates.”

Hanson points out that Americans that have graduated from college since the year 2000 have both lower rates of patriotism and home ownership. Recent college graduates are often ill-informed on American history. Hanson believes that colleges and universities are to blame for this recent wave of low-skilled and anti-American graduates. Student debt to obtain a degree they had been led to believe would lead them to a life of plenty but actually only made a bunch of college presidents and tenured professors rich on taxpayer money. It’s a case of another liberal government program that did exactly opposite what the elite promised.

The “Woke” generation would have benefi ted from a talk by someone like our high school principal and just possibly, some old-fashioned parents.