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Cruz: "I am not a fan of Woodrow Wilson. He did a lot of damage to this country"

Washington (CNN) Ted Cruz blasted Princeton University student activists fighting to remove Woodrow Wilson's name from campus buildings as "essentially pampered teenagers."

"You see at universities, these essentially pampered teenagers, many of them from very wealthy homes, who complain that they don't want to hear anything that they disagree with, that it is a 'micro-aggression.' And it is the most bizarre and anti-academic notion you can have," Cruz said Thursday on The Adam Carolla Show.

Some students believe that having the former U.S. president's name on campus buildings celebrates a politician called racial segregation "a benefit" and who had defended the enslavement of blacks by saying slaves "were happy and well-cared for."

Cruz, a Princeton grad, said college students shouldn't be shielded from everything that's offensive.

"We shouldn't be raising a generation of young people that are so pampered that they've never heard anything that offends them," he said. "We don't have a right not to be offended. We have a moral obligation to speak the truth and confront evil."

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