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Millennials Are In The Dark

ModerateGOP said:
As a millennial. I find this thread to be racist BS. We aren't as much in the dark as our elders portray us. Two posts in and there is already the name-calling and insults. Plus lack of substance. This thread is linking two things that have nothing in common and it doesn't even try to prove that millennials don't know about this speech...
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It's not racism, it's a form of ageism since the differentiation is based on generation (age) and not race.

I think Millennials are placed with a birth time of the early 80's to mid-90's/early-2000's. I think even within this there is a large difference. I know plenty of people born in the 80's and a lot of them are fine. But I do see some aggregate attitude drift to those born much later. Those born in the 90's and such, the kids that are in college currently, they are just...sometimes I find it amazing they're still breathing.
 
ModerateGOP said:
Ageism is too soft. No one cares about ageism. What school teaches about ageism??
Sometimes it feels like racism, they are putting me into a group where I don't belong.
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Being put into a group were you feel you don't belong is also not racism. You may think that ageism is too soft, but it's actually the proper term.
 
RetiredUSN said:
Millennials are the perfect example of the pussification of America.
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No doubt. Though I wouldn't include older millennials in that as much as the ones in their twenties. A whole bunch of those dudes are pansies, girly boys, or have been ***** whipped so hard its not even funny to joke about anymore.
 
SkiaXai said:
I have to laugh when I see every generation trash the next.
As if they don't understand social, political, and economical situations are a forever evolution.:roll:
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Men becoming pansies and girly boys is not any kind of desirable evolution.
 
SkiaXai said:
I mean literally every generation.

They blame the next for for the problems that are happening. It's a cycle that is old and only complains.
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Isn't that in the reverse? The younger generation first coming onto the scene usually blames the last generation for everything. Of course, problems like that are usually long lasting, took a long time to come about, and more than one generation is to blame.
 
Casper said:
Good grief, they are Young People and most young people are not all that interested in politics and if they are they are usually ill informed, political awareness does not usually kick in until one gets older, with a few exceptions as we see on this board with some of the young people that partake here. They are no different than the young of past generations, and years from now they will be saying the same about the next generations. One day we all turn into our parents, trust me we all get older, hopefully most will get smarter.
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I think that happens because politics have a way of entering your life when you become responsible for yourself and others.

This generation is putting off moving out and becoming independent, so maybe they won't get interested in the politics of the world any time soon.

Now politics of a video game, is another story all together.
 
Deuce said:
Their education is worth less and less every year, and costs more and more every year. My dad's generation could get a solid middle-class manufacturing job right out of high school. Not rich, but you could raise a family. If they'd wanted more, they could go to college. College could be paid for with a summer job.

Now two people with high school diplomas often can barely keep a family afloat, and paying for college with one of those crappy minimum wage jobs so many people think teenagers are supposed to do? Not really feasible. So they take on this ever growing debt instead, get a degree because their whole lives they were told that's what they had to do to be successful. They get out of school and find a job market that is abysmal, with pay scales that are falling against the rising cost of living. They got a degree, got that job, are working hard and are still struggling to pay off tens of thousands in loans and they're being told now that their generation is lazy and entitled by the very people who created this mess.
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Why do they wait to get out of school to find what they studied would not provide them with a job?

Wouldn't a thinking person study something that would provide a job upon graduating?
 
RetiredUSN said:
Millennials are the perfect example of the pussification of America.
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YES. YES. YES. YES. YES.

I can't even gather my squad together and say "morning guys. how's it going"

Because there might be a female soldier there and I could hurt her feelings.

WE'RE F-ING SOLDIERS. WE ARE TRAINED TO KILL AND THEY ARE AFRAID TO HURT SOMEONE'S FEELINGS.

Drives me bananas
 
Seems like those relying on, making gross generalizations really need to brush up on basic quantifiers (some, many, few, none, most, etc).

A subset of a set's subset can't translate into a statement of the entire set. That is, just because a % of any generation acts a particular way doesn't mean you can say everybody does. That IMO falls under rudimentary critical thinking.
 
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