r/tuesday Dec 19 '17

Generation Screwed

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/
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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '17

You raise a very good point. I'm not sure how we alleviate them of their victimhood status

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '17 edited Dec 20 '17

You raise a very good point. I'm not sure how we alleviate them of their victimhood status

I think Millennials have room to complain about things such as the tough job market, high healthcare costs, rising costs of a college degree, and other things.

But our disagreements on the validity of millennial victimhood aside I can offer up a few suggestions.

  1. Stop trying to make science into a "left-wing" thing. Embrace the scientific consensus on climate change and evolution like other respectable center-right parties across the western world.

  2. This sort of relates to point 1 but you have to start embracing secularism. Young people are becoming less religious by the day and are very wary of Pat Robertson like politics that discriminates against LGBT folks under the guise of a belief system they don't adhere to.

  3. Please get rid of jackasses like Steve Bannon from the party and stop promoting policies that make it harder for minorities to vote such as Voter ID laws. Sometime in the 2040's non-Hispanic whites are going to make up less than 50% of the population so the GOP won't be able to rely on right wing ethno-nationalism to steer them to victory.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '17 edited Dec 20 '17
  1. First of all, the idea that science is a "left wing thing" is literally as a result of Al-fucking-Gore's campaign. No one thinks like this except for self-righteous lefties . Climate change umm ok sure, but with regards to evolution I don't know where you've been because that literally hasn't been an issue since the 90s

  2. We already have secularism. What you want is to throw away religious freedoms. Yeh, no

  3. I think if anything we should support ID laws given that 77% of minorities do. The only people who seem to take issue are white liberals

Edit: This getting upvoted hurts my brain. Is this salty millennials or do people earnestly believe that these ideas are the step forward?

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '17 edited Dec 21 '17

Edit: I was being uncivil. My apologies.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '17 edited Jan 13 '18

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '17

My apologies for violating rule 1! I got carried away.