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good discussion topic. if you look at liberal colleges for example, students are terrified of guest speakers do not reflect what they hear in their echo chambers. thats just one example.
Maybe because they are smarter than your generation. Would you go, for example, to a event that was hosted by, let's say, the American Nazi Party ? After all, according to your logic, it would expand your mind and let you hear people who do not reflect your current thoughts ?
Personally, I do not see the point of your post. But as soon as I saw the words "echo chambers", it gave me a hint into your agenda. I know you Trumpees are scared to death of college educations, and people who think differently than you, but that is the real world, get used to it.
At least part of it is that the state has continued to grow and be more involved in every aspect of life, and each succeeding generation forgets how society functioned without it.
Another reason is schooling. Government schools will obviously have a pro-government bias, the same way Walmart schools would have a pro-Walmart bias.
Media also has a big influence. I look back at a lot of the movies and TV I watched growing up, and the villains are always evil rich guys, or a big company destroying the environment, etc...characters are cartoonish, so you grow up with a cartoonish view of the world (like the stereotypical evil old white man with a southern accent who represents non-progressives)..then you have the news telling you all the bad things happening everywhere and pushing a narrative...
I wonder how much of the government being more involved is influenced by the media. That is, a campaign is saying something like "Have your local politician say "yes" to these proposals against this socio-political issue".
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Still, they are spoiled. Parents did not plan to deprive their kids, they sacrifice their own retirement to coddle their adult kids so they don't have to work as hard as they did. This is why 30 year olds have a word "adulting" when they do things like laundry or buying a car, if they can even drive. Boomers drove rusty beater cars with ripped vinyl seats when they started out, and grew up in tiny ranch houses sharing a bedroom. Boomers and Xers and now millennials give their kids luxury. The kids complain because they want what their parents have earned over the years, right away.
This is spot on. Millennials have NO patience. We live in an instantaneous society. Want it... pick up the phone, order from Amazon, put it on credit (don't save for it), and boom it's delivered tomorrow. The wisest thing my mother ever taught me patience. I was in my 20's and a new mom and terribly upset that I couldn't get X (I don't remember what) for my son for Christmas. We just couldn't afford it. We had food to buy. My mother said, "Let me buy it. Your Grandparents bought for you when I couldn't afford it. Now retired and being fixed income can't. You can't. There will come a day, when you are a grandparent and will be able to do for your grandchild and I won't be able to." And you know what.... she was right. All I had to do was be PATIENT! And I found myself telling my son that very thing this past year. Patience. He and his wife are working very hard, but raising a small child is a very expensive proposition. We know this. We had the same scenarios and challenges. Believe me millenials... you'll get there....it may take thirty-five years, but that's how long it took us too......
good discussion topic. if you look at liberal colleges for example, students are terrified of guest speakers do not reflect what they hear in their echo chambers. thats just one example.
And a very poor example at that.
Why should students support the idea of wing-nut fear mongers getting paid to preach hatred to them on their own campus? It's not like these are good or profound ideas. It has nothing to do with free speech -- there are plenty of right-wing talk radio venues for that.
Individualism to conservatives = freedom to live exactly as they dictate everyone should. These MAGA conservatives are everything they think the left is. Spiteful, vindictive, and very authoritarian.
I don't tell anyone how to live.
As long as what you do doesn't hurt anyone or affect me, or my family in a negative way.....do whatever you want.
I'm a millennial and I have my own business you have no idea what you are even talking about. I also don't care about hoarding money for the sake of hoarding like many right wingers do.
It's called investing, not hoarding. It's how people retire early. You might want to try it, if your business is ever successful.
And a very poor example at that.
Why should students support the idea of wing-nut fear mongers getting paid to preach hatred to them on their own campus? It's not like these are good or profound ideas. It has nothing to do with free speech -- there are plenty of right-wing talk radio venues for that.
You prove our point of silencing free speech. Most of the hate, my friend, is coming from the left.
Even as a more socially liberal person, I have wondered why the need to have riots every time Ben Shapiro or whoever comes around. Unless they're advocating direct violence against people, let them have their say; you don't have to agree or attend.
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This is spot on. Millennials have NO patience. We live in an instantaneous society. Want it... pick up the phone, order from Amazon, put it on credit (don't save for it), and boom it's delivered tomorrow. The wisest thing my mother ever taught me patience. I was in my 20's and a new mom and terribly upset that I couldn't get X (I don't remember what) for my son for Christmas. We just couldn't afford it. We had food to buy. My mother said, "Let me buy it. Your Grandparents bought for you when I couldn't afford it. Now retired and being fixed income can't. You can't. There will come a day, when you are a grandparent and will be able to do for your grandchild and I won't be able to." And you know what.... she was right. All I had to do was be PATIENT! And I found myself telling my son that very thing this past year. Patience. He and his wife are working very hard, but raising a small child is a very expensive proposition. We know this. We had the same scenarios and challenges. Believe me millenials... you'll get there....it may take thirty-five years, but that's how long it took us too......
