I am aware that fedi in general has an older user base than other social networks, but I’ve seen a few very upvoted posts recently that seem to blame young people for the current rise of fascism despite older generations still making up the vast majority of conservative and fascist voters in most countries.
Is this just a result of this being a bubble for older lefties not perceiving younger lefties or is there something else going on here?
I think it’s frustration with younger men falling for the right-wing BS and throwing their support behind those causes. My generation went apathetic and nihilistic, not right wing.
This. Also older people falling for that kind of stuff was pretty much expected, but that came with the hope that those ideas will soon die out along with them. So fascism finding significant support among younger people (even if it’s not even close to the majority) kind of killed that hope.
Initially I didn’t trust gen Z because stats say they didn’t drink enough. Now it’s looking like they just lied about it and I have started to respect them a bit more.
I don’t believe that, virtually all the gen-z drink less than I did at that age, and way less than my parents did.
I got absolutely hammered in my youth. Basically every weekend throwing up.
I am so happy living in a generation and location where now the absolute Norm is: if you buy something with alcohol buy something for the people that dont drink alc.
Edit: I am Gen Z
You might wanna add /s to your comment or you’ll be downvoted to shreds.
If people think it’s a serious comment that’s on them. Their downvotes mean nothing to me.
No! Your comment was supposed to be sarcastic and funny, so it needs a “/s” and a laugh track. My comment has no tone indicators, so you can tell I’m being super serious.
When I was young we had to walk both ways up hill in bare feet and we liked it…
What was the question again, I have a poor memory these days
Could you link to those posts?
This, I can not remember seeing anything like that.
Are these posts in the room with us right now?
Going through my reading history, there’s a lot fewer than I thought. Maybe I was the prejudiced one.
Here’s one that I had on my mind, but it’s not political and fuckery is to be expected from a 4Chan related community.
This comment is the one that prompted me to make this post, but upon further research I found that it’s actually kind of true for Germany (not the UK though, and for the US it’s a lot, but still not quite as much as older age groups), so it’s not as unreasonable a comment as I thought.I’ll delete the post. Sorry.
Can you repeat the question? I can’t hear a thing with that damn rock-n’-roll racket…
Can you repeat the question?
You’re not the boss of me!
I like to play it, but I sure don’t like the racket.
People always think the group they’re a part of can do no wrong. Like some middle class who think the upper class is bad for x and y thing but when they do the same to the lower class they think they’re justified, and of course they try to find ways to call themselves the most oppressed class because poor people get assistance while they only get taxed (despite the fact that after taxes they still achieve a far higher living standard than the lower class).
Some people are just bitter. No generation is a monolith and it just further divides when people feed that idea and it’s easy for them to blame the youth rather than do something so they go with the easy route.
It’s never about millennials vs zoomers or males vs females
Honestly, I see people being quite optimistic about gen Z and Alpha. Most the whining comes from the right, with their “young people are destroying the [nonsense here] industry” and for brazenly treating other humans and people despite not all of them straight white christian cis men.
Personally, the worst things I see about the new generations is that young people are young. Someone who is 17 can’t adult quite as well because they are literally not an adult. I’ve been an adult for longer than they’ve been alive, of course I’m better at it than them and dealing with things I’ve dealt with before are easier than new things. That’s not a shortcoming, that’s how time works.
Is it annoying to see a girl make all the mistakes I made when I was a girl? Yes damnit. Will telling them stop them? Didn’t work for me, hence I made the mistakes too.
propaganda by boommers and older Xers to deflect blame on to younger generations, it was milleneals for like 2 decades, then gen z in the 2020s. the source of the problems conservative boomers and silent generations.
I’d argue elders have shifted to fedi as it’s basicness and open structure feels like the old internet. No gimics, no monotisation etc.
And generally is a pretty easy going place.
However the more you use it the more you see factions and intolerance.
Are we mean to the young? I notice intolerance but tbh that’s really down to extreme chat.
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” - George Orwell. He has a lot of good writing, I would recommend.
Listen to criticism, if the criticism seems valid react, if it doesn’t move on with your life.
I’ve disliked young people since I was a young person myself. The 2000’s were terrible and now times are worse. Now I’m old, it’s my God given right to be crochety.
You’re probably experiencing in-group bias, which can manifest in heightened sensitivity to criticism directed at one’s group, leading to perceptions that such critiques are exaggerated.
And your thinking is also affected by outgroup homogeneity bias, which is the tendency to view members of groups to which one does not belong as more similar to each other than they actually are.The boommillenial reich don’t understand these kinds of questions or how first world asset hoarding could possibly be related to the problems they see at home and abroad
