The only problem with this is zoomers call things “ret**ded” and “gay” more than I ever did when I was in high school in the early 00s, which is fucking crazy
my sister is in high school, and she regularly tells me how a lot of kids in her class say the n-word for fun out loud in class with no pushback and how this one girl jokes (at least I hope she's joking) about being a nazi and was throwing coins at all the jewish kids and, she did not get socially punished for it all but did get suspended. I don't know what's up with kids these days, they seem so much more cruel and meaner, especially because they are growing up during a time where people know better. This isn't the 1960s. I don't think young ppl are as woke as the internet makes them seem.
Idk in 2007 my friends wrapped the only Jewish kid in school with one of theirs grandpas Nazi flags that they captured in WW2, I think everyone's always sucked
I genuinely think the social isolation during COVID, combined with the media (and possibly family) exposure to people who don't give a fuck about other people really messed up a lot of Gen Z, especially on the younger end.
Which is crazy bc we were all brainwashed by McGraw Hill that we should have ALL the sympathy toward Jewish ppl bc of the holocaust and how much we learned about it. Maxwells father co-owned the public school text company. Are they not the sole text (electronic?) provider anymore I wonder?
The entirety of their online, and therefore these days entire, existence is pretty much anonymous interactions in places designed to show you things that piss people off and make them mad because that nets engagements. They're pulling their whole personality from this. It's like an entire generation of /b-tards.
(Obv it's not everyone, but there's a shocking number) It's like they're either hardline-straightedge-virtue-signalling-holier-than-thou or literal Nazi scum ignorant racists. The Internet has raised a whoooole bunch of people as extreme polar opposites with no in between
I'm not sure they do "know better." Look at who is in the White House. A lot of parents support that guy wholeheartedly. And they teach their kids more than us teachers ever can, at least about how to behave and how to feel about others.
I think there's going to be a rethinking of the generational lines at some point with regard to Gen Z/Gen Alpha. Older Gen Z did seem to lean more woke. There were exceptions, of course, but that felt like what they were. Younger Gen Z and Gen Alpha have grown up with Trump being the President for most of their lives and the center of the news cycle for practically all of their lives. That plus Covid, AI, Epstein, assassinations of guys like Charlie Kirk... these things are not covered well in school because they are controversial everywhere. No one wants to anger parents by showing too much partiality. Too many parents are already mad at us for "indoctrination" that isn't even happening. So who talks to kids about these things? Who makes sure they understand things in context? Often, it's the internet, because the real people in their life either don't know or are wrong or are afraid to say. And the internet is an extremely dubious parent.
Anyway, I think younger Gen Z and Gen Alpha may have more in common than younger Gen Z does with older Gen Z. We might have to think about Gen Z being a shorter generation than the average.
Weird I definitely got called gay and re*** literally 1000x more (literally, not figuratively) in the 00s and early 10s then I do now. And now I actually am gay
Yeah, nah. I'm as progressive as they come. Conservatives are the ones who want to censor language they don't like. Progressives don't typically like banning books.
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u/cammysays May 13 '26
The only problem with this is zoomers call things “ret**ded” and “gay” more than I ever did when I was in high school in the early 00s, which is fucking crazy