Gen Z has been warped by social media and victimhood culture: Jonathan haidt

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Generation Z are seriously the most educated stupids on this ship we call Earth.
One way you can tell is that phone stuck to their hand 24/7. They cannot do a damn thing without consulting that phone.
The gimme I want generation who thinks they are owed something.

Lolol, just a few short years ago people said the same thing word for word about millennials. Come on, can’t you come up with something slightly new about the younger generation? So lazy!

Agree. Those are unoriginal millennial tropes we’ve heard for a decade now.

The pitfall of Gen Z is their chronic online-ness. They have spent so much of their time socializing on social media and little in real life that it has skewed their sense of reality and made so much of their communication about politics and social justice totally cringe-worthy. They call out the most utterly benign things as “problematic” (a concept that millennials invented but Gen Z has built upon and taken to the extreme) to the point that it’s nonsensical and devoid of any logic at all.

[Anonymous]

Mother of 2 relatively normal and happy Gen Z’ers here. My husband and I have had to stay exhaustingly vigilant - as many of you have - about social media, phones, etc. over the years.

Tragically, one of Haidt’s key points essentially seems to be that Gen Z kids are (gulp) actually not good Americans…he sees them as self-centered and depressed weaklings who lack the courage required to overcome hardships, create, and take some risks in life and work…they will contribute less and perhaps undermine the American project. Yikes!

Maybe we can still help the younger Gen Z’ers.

Worth a read: https://raisingamericans.substack.com/p/the-good-american

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Generation Z are seriously the most educated stupids on this ship we call Earth.
One way you can tell is that phone stuck to their hand 24/7. They cannot do a damn thing without consulting that phone.
The gimme I want generation who thinks they are owed something.

Lolol, just a few short years ago people said the same thing word for word about millennials. Come on, can’t you come up with something slightly new about the younger generation? So lazy!

Agree. Those are unoriginal millennial tropes we’ve heard for a decade now.

The pitfall of Gen Z is their chronic online-ness. They have spent so much of their time socializing on social media and little in real life that it has skewed their sense of reality and made so much of their communication about politics and social justice totally cringe-worthy. They call out the most utterly benign things as “problematic” (a concept that millennials invented but Gen Z has built upon and taken to the extreme) to the point that it’s nonsensical and devoid of any logic at all.

Funny, you could say the same thing about multiple men I know who are 40-60yo and spend all their time watching alt right YouTube videos.

It’s not a Gen Z thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Classic generation gap freak out. There is a huge gulf between today's adults and today's youth in a way not seen since the 1960s.

this is it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The cohort claiming victimhood, racism, anti-trans bias, speech-as-violence, etc. are meanwhile taking over the institutions of soft power--namely colleges and media companies. White men--the convenient, lazy stand-in for all that is and ever was evil in the world--are dropping out of the workforce and make up smaller and smaller portions of college student bodies. I'm still trying to decide if this is a brilliant, intentional strategy by the woke elite, or just a comedic final act in the decline of the West.

The cohort that is non white men has plenty of people that excel at college and media and carrying on the business of the west just fine. Relax.

Yes to media, STEM not so much…