what truly is the deal with this "words hurt" generation?

Whoa this shite is too deep for me

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How is the vocal minority gaining so much ground?

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It's all the media talks about. Kids see other kids bitch enough to get their way and figure they can do the same.

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How can we "fix" these offended kids?

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We can't. We're doomed.

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How can we "fix" these offended kids?

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Life will do that. Or they'll destroy the country completely. It's impossible to sustain both them and the country.

These kids grew up with no wars, no conflicts, no struggles, massive technology boom, no memory of a time before social media and cell phones and cable TV and Internet.

They are both over and under educated at the same time and they're whiny entitled pieces of shite.

It doesn't help that the last 8 years our government bent over backwards to appease this piss stain of a generation. So as they grew from 16-24 up to 24-32 they learned to yell loud and bitch for no reason. No one has stood up to them, and they have enough money and student loan debt to continue to throw piss fits. They're still living with their parents and making $10 /hr at Starbucks bitching about how life isn't fair. They don't know what life is.

Life, or more specifically, a job and the daily grind, is for the most part a miserable fricking experience. There are some people who enjoy what they do and there are exceptions to the rule, but there are plenty of moments in life that just flat out suck. You have to deal with them and move on. These kids have never had to learn to deal with adversity. So when they face it they freak the frick out.

They also seem incapable of manual labor and blue color jobs. Construction, plumbing, electricity, etc... Are all fantastic ways to make living but these people would rather argue that a Walmart cashier and a Starbucks cashier should make 40/hr instead of understanding that those jobs are not meant to sustain an entire household for life.

What makes matters worse, is the silent majority got tired of them and started ignoring them. And the louder they get, the more those normal hard working people resent them.

At some point they'll be forced to grow up and work at a shite job for an a-hole boss or they'll starve and they are not prepared for that. And they've spent so much time infuriating the people who occupy Middle management in this country its going to be a very rough and rude awakening for them. And when they bitch about it, no one will give a frick. Even if it's justified.

Someone should've read them two stories when they were younger: the boy who cried wolf, and tortoise and the hair.

Millenial here, I RA'd because your post hurt my feelings. You'll be hearing from my daddy's lawyer about payment for the mental anguish I've encountered.

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Genuinely impressed with the lack of responsibility older generations take for the current state of affairs.

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I think social media, the main stream media, the current political landscape, and the education system are much more to blame.

Yes there are parenting issues and government issues, but the sudden explosion of the Internet, social media, and Facebook is an unprecedented world changing event. It's akin to shite you learn about in school like the printing press as a thing that just changed the entire world completely within a generation.

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We're sorry for providing a mostly war & worry free existence for our children.

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This really is the problem. Instead of appreciating that and working to continue this great period of prosperity and growth this generation wants to tear it all down and frick any chance of growth into the ground for seemingly no fricking reason. I go back to that women's rally after Trump won.

They had no point, no leadership, no cause, no structure.

They hadn't lost any rights, they didn't have any demands, they didn't have a message, they just rioted because their candidate lost a fair and open general election for control of a country they've run for the last 8 years.

There was a subtle but terrifying shift in this last election. It started a few years ago but it tipped this last election. For a long time you had two candidates and you bashed the candidate you didn't like and when the other guy won you were upset about that guy winning. I remember Bush v Gore and Kerry. I remember the media shitting on Bush and I remember people hating on Gore and Bush and Cheney, but I don't remember the hatred of each other. Even with McCain and Romney v Obama I don't remember people actively hating the supporters of those candidate s.

This last election it wasn't people hating Trump, but it was people hating his supporters. Anyone who voted for or supported Trump became a public enemy. That's dangerous.

Throwing tantrums is what a three year old does. Cries and holds his breath for no reason because he didn't get what he wanted. And I don't know what the solution is. There is an unhinged psychotic unreasonable insane sect of our country that has an insatiable appetite for chaos and a terrifyingly fascist ideal that their beliefs are unquestionably correct and should be implemented no matter the cost.

Pst, they're not really "hurt" any more so than that accident victim who's suing your insurance after you tapped his car backing out of the parking lot. It's a tactic to silence dissent, manipulate news media, create the illusion of concensus on social media, and get power and accomidations from authoritative bodies like municiple governments, school administrations, and law enforcement. Just like they're not really mentally ill. They are gaming the system for prescription drugs, disability benefits, and testing accomidations and other school benefits. It's a racket.

Not really. Gen-X'ers finally got in a position where they are important enough to tell everyone that they are also important. They passed on that line of thinking to this new generation. They had it all along though, but it was just a bunch of repressed feelings because their parents were normal people and made them act properly