GEN Z is the real GREAEST greatest generation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gen X’er here. As someone who grew with with Greatest Generation grandparents I find it hard to beleive that any generation since has had it harder. My grandparents all had to quit school around the 5th grade (yes, thats 10 years old) and get jobs working in fields or factories - whatever they could get to help feed their families. My grandad’s parents died when he was 9 so the nextdoor neighbor tried to take care of him before the depression hit. She couldn’t afford to feed him and her family during the depression and he started illegally hopping trains (at 10 years old) to go to other towns to find work and send money home. He got the hell beat out of him regularly by the bulls (cops) on the train. Then the war hit and he got drafted and was in 5 major campaigns in WW2 starting with D-Day. At the D-Day invasion he was the only guy who made it to shore from his boat. Everyone else drowned or was shot. He was blown through a window in Belgium and cut up by broken glass. He was badly winburned and frost bitten during the Battle of the Bulge and ultimately was part of the occupying force in Germany.

He came home and self medicated for two years and then wuit drinking, got married and became a wonderful family man. I never once heard him complain about his “trauma”.

If you only understand that words leave lasting scars that nothing can heal. /s

I've heard, in real life and not just on social media, younger people claim that words=violence, and can be banned by law.

[Anonymous]

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No other Generation had to deal with so much drama.

No other Generation had so many mental health issues.

I mean, it's normal for young people to be very self-involved and also ignorant of history.

But imagine thinking that you have more mental health issues than the generation that lived through both the Great Depression and World War II, or the one raised by alcoholic veterans of WWI and the Great Depression, or the one raised by people raised by people who lived through the Great Depression and WWII, all of whom mostly had to do this without any mental healthcare available AT ALL, or even basic understanding of stuff like depression, alcoholism, childhood trauma, etc.

Gen Z is highly aware of mental health issues, which is good. But the idea that they HAVE more of them doesn't track. My parents used to hit us, with a belt, and if anyone suggested this was abusive or bad, the majority of society would say no, it was just good parenting. And you think you have MORE mental health issues than me? Child, please.

It's not the fact that we have more mental health issues, its that we are addressing them more. Previous generations didn't talk about them or acknowledge them as much as we do. We are bringing light to something that isn't so light. We understand that your generations went under a lot more trauma, we aren't disregarding that. But as I said it's not about having more mental problems it's that we talk about them more and we are open to talking about it more. We are grateful that we are able to have the tools to help us get better but now you do so go get better. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Well, they appear to fans of capslock.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gen X’er here. As someone who grew with with Greatest Generation grandparents I find it hard to beleive that any generation since has had it harder. My grandparents all had to quit school around the 5th grade (yes, thats 10 years old) and get jobs working in fields or factories - whatever they could get to help feed their families. My grandad’s parents died when he was 9 so the nextdoor neighbor tried to take care of him before the depression hit. She couldn’t afford to feed him and her family during the depression and he started illegally hopping trains (at 10 years old) to go to other towns to find work and send money home. He got the hell beat out of him regularly by the bulls (cops) on the train. Then the war hit and he got drafted and was in 5 major campaigns in WW2 starting with D-Day. At the D-Day invasion he was the only guy who made it to shore from his boat. Everyone else drowned or was shot. He was blown through a window in Belgium and cut up by broken glass. He was badly winburned and frost bitten during the Battle of the Bulge and ultimately was part of the occupying force in Germany.

He came home and self medicated for two years and then wuit drinking, got married and became a wonderful family man. I never once heard him complain about his “trauma”.

If you only understand that words leave lasting scars that nothing can heal. /s

I've heard, in real life and not just on social media, younger people claim that words=violence, and can be banned by law.

+1. We would have the NHS if the Founding Fathers wouldn't have had free speech. Bastards.

[Anonymous]

This is a weird take, but I’ll take enlighten you that my gen alpha kids also had to do school online at home and have to do lock down drills because of school shooting threats.

Nearly half of gen Z was out of HS around the time COVID started so I don’t think this is a uniquely gen Z experience. Also millennials and Gen X had to try to keep their jobs while also helping their kids do school work.

Why is this a weird competition? I actually do like Gen Z and they give me hope for social reforms and gun reform once the Boomers are no longer taking over the polls. But this whole thread is weird. If OP isn’t a troll then yikes …

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also gen z had to overcome terrible transphobia from generation X, the most racist generation

This is … not the actual reputation of Gen X.

Also Gen X created a lot of 90s culture that Gen Z likes to emulate today.

-older millennial who thinks this is dumb

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gen X’er here. As someone who grew with with Greatest Generation grandparents I find it hard to beleive that any generation since has had it harder. My grandparents all had to quit school around the 5th grade (yes, thats 10 years old) and get jobs working in fields or factories - whatever they could get to help feed their families. My grandad’s parents died when he was 9 so the nextdoor neighbor tried to take care of him before the depression hit. She couldn’t afford to feed him and her family during the depression and he started illegally hopping trains (at 10 years old) to go to other towns to find work and send money home. He got the hell beat out of him regularly by the bulls (cops) on the train. Then the war hit and he got drafted and was in 5 major campaigns in WW2 starting with D-Day. At the D-Day invasion he was the only guy who made it to shore from his boat. Everyone else drowned or was shot. He was blown through a window in Belgium and cut up by broken glass. He was badly winburned and frost bitten during the Battle of the Bulge and ultimately was part of the occupying force in Germany.

He came home and self medicated for two years and then wuit drinking, got married and became a wonderful family man. I never once heard him complain about his “trauma”.

But hear me out … did he have to do a year of school on an iPad?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a generation X and will be very happy if Generation Z is the greatest. You will be my doctors/care givers in my old age.

God help us all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can’t even be bothered to proofread.

Have you moved out of your parents’ home yet?

Yes, I am 25 year old and I did moved out, to a one bedroom apartment although a lot of my friends haven't and some will never move out.

Are any of your friends aware that you can live with roommates and split the cost? That’s how every other generation did it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

No other Generation had to deal with so much drama.

No other Generation had so many mental health issues.

I mean, it's normal for young people to be very self-involved and also ignorant of history.

But imagine thinking that you have more mental health issues than the generation that lived through both the Great Depression and World War II, or the one raised by alcoholic veterans of WWI and the Great Depression, or the one raised by people raised by people who lived through the Great Depression and WWII, all of whom mostly had to do this without any mental healthcare available AT ALL, or even basic understanding of stuff like depression, alcoholism, childhood trauma, etc.

Gen Z is highly aware of mental health issues, which is good. But the idea that they HAVE more of them doesn't track. My parents used to hit us, with a belt, and if anyone suggested this was abusive or bad, the majority of society would say no, it was just good parenting. And you think you have MORE mental health issues than me? Child, please.

It's not the fact that we have more mental health issues, its that we are addressing them more. Previous generations didn't talk about them or acknowledge them as much as we do. We are bringing light to something that isn't so light. We understand that your generations went under a lot more trauma, we aren't disregarding that. But as I said it's not about having more mental problems it's that we talk about them more and we are open to talking about it more. We are grateful that we are able to have the tools to help us get better but now you do so go get better. Thank you.

But you talk about them more because a) there has been a lot of progress in the field of mental health thanks to prior generations and b) the internet has made the ability to disseminate information more widespread than any other point in human history. The turn of the 21st century has been one of (probably the) largest time of human knowledge expansion and globalization of ideas thanks to social media/blogs.

As a millennial with Gen Z nieces and nephews, raising Gen Alpha kids, I have so much hope for these future generations. I was raised during a time of the AIDS crisis and don’t ask don’t tell. We were still learning all that “I don’t see color” nonsense that ignored systemic racism. We used words like “gay” and “ret@rded” as slang because it was normalized. We self medicated depression with substance use.

The fact that kids are now out/open at a younger age, more accepting of various gender identities, willing to talk about racial and other inequality issues, and open to mental health treatment, etc. gives me such hope. But don’t forget who is raising these younger generations and what we have overcome to help get you to this point.

And before millennials and gen x there were the civil rights protestors and feminists. Before that there were those fighting against nazis and before that those fighting against slavery. You are not the first heroes coming along, you are continuing the progress that was made before you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GEN Z is the real GREAEST greatest generation.

No other Generation had to deal with school shootings, COVID or other issues like GEN Z did at such a young age.
WE had to complete school from home for one year. NO OTHER Generation ever were ever told to stay home and complete all the school work at home.

Other other Generation had to deal with so many school shootings

No other Generation had to deal with so much drama.

No other Generation had so many mental health issues.

GEN Z THE REAL "the greatest generation."

I love this! Rock on Gen Z!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GEN Z is the real GREAEST greatest generation.

No other Generation had to deal with school shootings, COVID or other issues like GEN Z did at such a young age.
WE had to complete school from home for one year. NO OTHER Generation ever were ever told to stay home and complete all the school work at home.

Other other Generation had to deal with so many school shootings

No other Generation had to deal with so much drama.

No other Generation had so many mental health issues.

GEN Z THE REAL "the greatest generation."

Go hump your comfort animal.

[Anonymous]

So humble.

[Anonymous]

I feel sorry for the millennials they will have to keep everything going until generation alpha can take over. Gen Z will still be in the basement never amounting to anything or accomplishing anything.

[Anonymous]

Let’s all shed a tear for Gen Z.

Why they had to do a year of college from home. Oh my!!