It's genetically wired into them: they're just carrying on the "tradition" {snort} of their radical grandparents' generation, aka Red Diaper Doper Babies and useful idiot cohorts.
"The College of William & Mary, Jefferson’s alma mater, is one of many schools in America where student activists are debating the legacy of the Founding Fathers and demanding the removal of anything that commemorates them." (Article here.)
On the other hand, this is hugely encouraging. We can only hope that this "starter batch" will function as the spark for a firestorm counter-movement.