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Why is Lemmy so prejudiced/hostile towards young people?

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/39590327

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Mar 8 at 7:35amWeb
Show threadExtremeDullardMar 8
Can you repeat the question? I can’t hear a thing with that damn rock-n’-roll racket…
Show threadTheTechnician27Mar 8

Can you repeat the question?

You’re not the boss of me!

Show threadBlueÆtherMar 8

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

Show threadXiELEdMar 8
People always think the group they’re a part of can do no wrong. Like the 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 having a better living standard).
Show threadpunkideasMar 8
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.
Show threadKorhakaMar 8
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.
Show threadAlcoholicornMar 8
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.
Show threadCherryMar 8
You might wanna add /s to your comment or you’ll be downvoted to shreds.
Show threadKorhakaMar 8
If people think it’s a serious comment that’s on them. Their downvotes mean nothing to me.
Show threadTheTechnician27Mar 8
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.
Show threadfrischkaesbagettMar 8

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.

Show threadPonyOfWarMar 8
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.
Show threadRotheMar 8
Could you link to those posts?
Show threadEheranMar 8
This, I can not remember seeing anything like that.
Show threadbelluckMar 8

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.

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Show threadMarshezezzMar 8
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.
Show threadA🔻atar of 🔻engeanceMar 8
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
Show threadTollana1234567Mar 8
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.
Show threadlemmingMar 8
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 you’re 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.
Show threadCherryMar 8

I’d argue elders have shifted to fedi as it’s basic was and open structure feels like the old internet.

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?

Show threadcub GucciMar 8
It’s never about millennials vs zoomers or males vs females
Show threadTar_AlcaranMar 8

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.

Show threadMister NeonMar 8
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.