Social Do we need to snowflake shame millennials?

[tonni]

People have always been whiny. Old people are immensely whiny. Ever visited a nursing home? You'll get whined to death. Everyone is a crybaby especially the people continuously calling everyone crybabies, it's compensation.

 

[Fluffernutter]

If I don't like something, I turn the channel. But, I feel no need to tell someone else they can't watch it.

 

[tonni]

He isn't talking about millennials. Millenials are in their 30s now.

He's talking about generation Z.

Your whole OP is fucked.

And as a millennial, I laugh at my parent's generation trying to say how 'hard' they had it. Baby boomers had a free ride compared to any other generation.

These people had cheap houses and cars like you wouldn't believe.

 

[tonni]

Word man. I was sledding out if trees in winter and in the woods or running barefoot around the neighborhood in the summer. Kids nowadays are inside a lot and don't exercise and rarely face adversity

It depends on where you live, but yeah I was born in 1990 and I remember the transition from an outside playing culture to a computer culture very well.

Television on free days (which there were too little of) was mostly limited to very early in the morning. I got up with my sister at around 6am so we could watch the early cartoons, and then we either played outside or inside with toys, lego etc.

In Belgium, this shift to computer culture coincided with the Dutroux case which led a lot of parents to keep their kids inside more.

 

[ElKarlo]

It depends on where you live, but yeah I was born in 1990 and I remember the transition from an outside playing culture to a computer culture very well.

Television on free days (which there were too little of) was mostly limited to very early in the morning. I got up with my sister at around 6am so we could watch the early cartoons, and then we either played outside or inside with toys, lego etc.

In Belgium, this shift to computer culture coincided with the Dutroux case which led a lot of parents to keep their kids inside more.

I'm from the DC area but was born in 82. Kids younger than me, like your age got picked up at the bus stop. Or mom would have them wait in the van til the bus showed up. The PC gaming was just part of the problem. Babying and protecting from even small hardships has made it so that kids can't deal with anything.
Same with instant entertainment. I know how to deal with being bored. My dad was checked out for most my childhood. TV was Boeing so we figured how how to play. Not get a to show or game on a phone
Yeah over reporting of crimes made parents paranoid and it's made kids weak and dependent

 

[tonni]

I'm from the DC area but was born in 82. Kids younger than me, like your age got picked up at the bus stop. Or mom would have them wait in the van til the bus showed up. The PC gaming was just part of the problem. Babying and protecting from even small hardships has made it so that kids can't deal with anything.
Same with instant entertainment. I know how to deal with being bored. My dad was checked out for most my childhood. TV was Boeing so we figured how how to play. Not get a to show or game on a phone
Yeah over reporting of crimes made parents paranoid and it's made kids weak and dependent

TV was very Boeing, I remember how loud it was when it started up.

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

Complaining about complaining is as pathetic as complaining about mean words.

You could even argue they're the exact same thing.

No. Complaining in and of itself is not the problem. If someone constantly complains about things that are insubstantial, and worse, uses those complaints as leverage to enforce groupthink and gain institutional control, then it is reasonable to complain about that person's complaints.

 

[ElKarlo]

I live in Japan and most kids don't know their dad's and never learned how to roigh house. Which is a major form of socialization. Kids don't know how to interact and I have to teach a 5 yp how to not be awful when playing. It's weird and sad

 

[VivaRevolution]

It's not a generational thing, dummy. Those parents always existed.

They are horde now. It's the rule not the exception. I've heard females say they would do it less, but they are worried they will be judged by other mom's.

 

[PrinceOfPain]

Lol. Have you seen the way these kids behave? No dignity whatsoever.

You can't shame the shameless.

 

[ObamaPhoneLady]

Forget about the horror aspect of it for a minute. Sleepaway Camp is a pretty good snapshot on how kids used to treat each other in the 80s.

If you like sleep away camp check out summer camp nightmare. Whole movie is on YouTube.

 

[Eusung]

I only a few people who acted like a Gen Z stereotype.

Everyone lended up hating him and avoiding him.

He was a 26 year old British guy who kept lamenting about how priveleged he was for being white. He kept using hateful rhetoric about Irish people(he was born in Ireland but grew up in England).

He told me I will never meet a good Irish person and told me he hates Germans.
He kept shitting on Conor McGregor and said his comments about Brazil were racist. I didn't even bother to tell him Brazilian is a nationality not a race.

He said he values a dog's life over an avg human being.

He told me he doesn't see race repeatedly almost like Michael Scott...

Watching Khabib beat Conor didn't satisfy him...he only got angrier. I thought it would make him celebrate but it just fueled his rage.

I showed him Sasha's Who is America clips to cheer him up and instead of laughing he got all angry telling me it proved how stupid everyone is.

He accused me of inventing the word socialist when I said Bernie ran as a Democratic Socialist. He started yelling and said he might kill himself. He didn't even know who Bernie was (this was a year ago)

He truly thought the world was too stupid for him.

I was relieved when he finally left.

On election day a college aged looking girl said "This is Hitler again" and 8 was SMH inside. I wasn't that thrilled with the election but I would never say that.

In my experience most Gen Z in their 20s from various European countries outside the UK are very reasonable and tolerant of political disagreements.

I think this is mostly a US Canada and UK issue. Gen Z outside those places are nowhere near as extreme as Gen Z Twitter mobs.

Then again the Gen Z I meet are the type who like to travel and experience other cultures so... My sample pool prob isn't indicative of the typical Gen Z

Maybe the kids who are getting pissed off on US college campuses just need to make a trip to non Western places to get more perspective. It would shock them.

 

[TeTe]

Gen Z is already shaping up to be a more grounded, no nonsense generation. Save the Tide pods

 

[Letssnuggle]

No generation was softer than The Greatest Generation who voted a Socialist into the White House 4 times. And we're still fighting FDR's Radical Socialism today.

Millennials only power is fake outrage magnified tenfold by corporate media to make it seem relevant.

Is this sarcasm? Sorry if my meter didn’t pick it up but there’s no way the greatest generation, who lived through the Great Depression and fought in WW2, could be considered soft.

 

[7437]

That is the right group though. 30 year old whiners.

But it is not really their fault. They are continuation of the disaster of the Self Esteem Movement that invaded the schools in the 80 thru 90's before being dumped for the disaster it was.

Telling every kid they were a winner. Everyone gets a prize. There were no losers.

Is it hard to understand how that generation told, no matter what you do, no matter how little you work, everything will always work out and you will always get a prize (win at life).

Life is slapping them into reality and they are crying about everything because that is not how it worked or what they were told in school.

i wrote that cause he was complaining about people under 30 and called them millenials. its not correct.

. I hate the everyone is a winner/everything will work out attitude.

 

[Lucifer Alpha]

 

[calavera2]

What a stupid thread...this shitting on the new generations is played out old man.

 

[Arkain2K]

you know millenials are usually over 30 right? 1981-1996.

if you want to whine about young people try to get your label right.

Please do not put the awesome Oregon Trail generation into the same basket as the Millennials. The kids that came after us wouldn't survive a stern talk-to, much less a mild case of dysentery or a river fording gone awry.

May be growing up with analog tech and playing outside the house toughen us up compare to the digital tit-babies and their safe spaces.

 

[surrealworlds]

Simple solution. Make every kid in school recite
"I may not agree with a single thing you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it." A million times.

Words to live by.

 

[Lucifer Alpha]

Simple solution. Make every kid in school recite
"I may not agree with a single thing you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it." A million times.

Words to live by.

Never gonna happen when 90% of the teachers are women.

This entire SJW movement started in the schools.