Bill Maher Rips Young People For Being Mentally Weak After D-Day Anniversary

Bill Maher doesn't have much tolerance for mentally weak young people, and it's hard to blame him.

The anniversary of D-Day was earlier this week, and the events of June 6, 1944 and the attitude of the era couldn't be more different from today.

We asked thousands of young American men to leave their families for years to fight a war to liberate the world. They ran directly into machine gun fire to fight the enemy and kill Germans. They were a different breed.

Now, we now have safe spaces, woke outrage mobs and everyone thinks their feelings are the utmost important thing in the world.

Maher has had enough, and made his feelings clear on the latest episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher."

Bill Maher rips young people for being soft.

Maher and his guests tore into the idea young people today face so much adversity that they develop PTSD like they've been to war.

"You (guest Matt Welch) mention D-Day, I couldn't help but think of it because I was reading the New York Times says among college students, PTSD among adolescents is surging. PTSD. The fact that we have so [Maher looks visibly frustrated]...My father was in that campaign [WWII in Europe]. He wasn't on Omaha Beach, but he was in that campaign in France. PTSD? That we would even allow kids to think they have PTSD," Maher said while very clearly annoyed and not happy. The study Maher referred to claims 7.5% of college students have PTSD. I find that borderline impossible to believe.

His guest Abigail Shrier agreed that kids raised in rich areas like Brentwood absolutely don't have PTSD, but "out combat vets sometimes do have PTSD."

"Always," Maher agreed without hesitation.

The era of D-Day is a reminder of how much young people have changed. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

"They need treatment when they have it. It is real, but that's not what kids at universities have. But what they have is what I call in my book bad therapy. They have a kind of emotional hypochondria. They have focused so much on their own bad feelings that they magnify these feelings. They make them an organizing principle of their lives, and then they have trouble escaping them," Shrier continued.

Maher also noted that weak parenting has raised "a lot of f*cked up kids."

There's no question that people sometimes experience life-changing events, but the idea that going to college in America is a traumatic experience is beyond stupid.

There's never been a better time to be alive in human history than right now. You can order virtually whatever you want right to your front door, access to food is plentiful, the American system remains the strongest in the world and you can pursue whatever path you want.

Unfortunately, so many people have been programmed to believe they're victims that they start to believe it. I'll share one of the most powerful things I've ever heard in my life from a Black Hawk Down veteran turned Delta Force operator. He said after the Battle of Mogadishu, a Unit psych gathered some of the survivors and told them they now had an excuse for the rest of their lives to be terrible people, horrible husbands, alcoholics, drug addicts and dysfunctional because they experienced such an unbelievably brutal event.

But, if they gave into those feelings, then they were letting the bad guys win, and they shouldn't ever let the bad guys win. To this day, it's one of the most profound things I've ever heard. Meanwhile, we have college students laying siege to college campuses because they don't understand how war and geopolitics work.

Some Black Hawk Down vets don't have PTSD, but I'm supposed to believe it's surging on college campuses? Give me a break. Bill Maher is 100% correct with his assessment, and he should be applauded for saying it. Get help if you seriously need it, but not everyone is a victim just because they think they are. It's really that simple. Let me know if you agree at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.