A lot of young leftist, to some degree, have similar views. It is scary and very common thinking in colleges. The idea that, in general people are good by nature, they are just oppressed or poor that cause them to do bad things. They believe, despite thousands of years of fighting and insane religion, that the US has caused a lot of the terrorism in the middle east with our policies. They live in a protected little world where they have no true physical struggles or threats of true bodily harm.