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tooki:

--- Quote from: Deodand2014 on November 13, 2019, 02:38:42 am ---You also have to remember that Google is run by members of the iGen, they believe that individual words (E.g. 'Picnic', 'Violate') no matter what the context will cause those individuals to suffer the effects of PTSD and since mental comfort is the highest thing, we end up with nonsense like this.

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OK, boomer. ;)

That claim is, of course, utter nonsense. The vast majority of Gen-Xers (which is who runs google, not young millennials) as well as millennials do not hold such extreme views, nor did the fringe members of those generations invent such silliness. For example, the woman who coined the term “herstory” was born in 1941, too old to even be a boomer! It was them, and boomers, who invented the “outrage” over things like the normal American pronunciation of “harassment”, and it’s boomers who came up with women’s studies, gay studies, etc. It’s baffling to me that millennials get attacked over this, when they had nothing to do with it. I’m sure that if we look hard enough, we can find examples of that kind of silliness dating back to at least the 19th century, if not earlier.
magic:
Read the Unabomber Manifesto and you will know that SJWism already existed when Millennials were in their diapers.
But the problem with Millenials is that they are the first generation which (at least a subset of) grew up completely immersed in this mentality and they know nothing else. Millennials is what happened when those boomer hippies tried to raise children.

Boomers were SJWs fighting for eternal victims, Millennials are eternal victims. There wouldn't be half of the drama without a fresh supply of victims to parade before the public and those are mostly all sorts of mentally troubled youngsters. These days it is fashionable to be a victim and everybody wants to identify as one, even the neo-Nazis. This is the original contribution of the Millennial generation.
tooki:
That’s just as much nonsense as the claims that they’re all SJWs. “Playing the victim” is what the perpetrators say to try and gaslight their victims.

At least in USA, millennials legitimately have a much, much harder situation than prior generations, in almost every tangible way. And when they rightfully stand up and say “WTF?”, they get called “victims”, but in a very real sense they are, and it’s absolutely correct of them to stand up against the people who caused the mess.
tooki:
Also, millennials were not “in diapers” in 1995 (when the Unabomber manifesto was published), but rather older kids or young teens . People forget that typical definitions of millennials starts at about 1983. (A lot of people seem to mistakenly think that millennials means people born around the turn of the millennium, but it means people who became adults around the turn of the millennium!!)

As I said, SJWs predate millennials by a whole lot longer than the anti-SJWs of today want to believe.
coppice:

--- Quote from: tooki on November 14, 2019, 12:10:39 am ---That’s just as much nonsense as the claims that they’re all SJWs. “Playing the victim” is what the perpetrators say to try and gaslight their victims.

At least in USA, millennials legitimately have a much, much harder situation than prior generations, in almost every tangible way. And when they rightfully stand up and say “WTF?”, they get called “victims”, but in a very real sense they are, and it’s absolutely correct of them to stand up against the people who caused the mess.

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The young working class in the US do genuinely seem to have a much harder time than their parents. I have yet to be convinced that the average middle class US millennial has things worse. If they have bought into the BS around them they will suffer, but this has always been the case. Nobody, except (if you are lucky) your family, is looking out for you. You have always needed to look out for yourself, and steer your own course in life.
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