An Aversion to "Adulting"

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They “are just less willing to label anything as ‘wrong,’ ” Ms. Twenge writes.

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Ms. Twenge assigns the label iGen (her own coinage) to people born between 1995 and 2012.

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the older members of iGen (now in their teens and early 20s)

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bet more are boomers

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They “are just less willing to label anything as ‘wrong,’ ” Ms. Twenge writes.

Unless, that is, something is deemed an offense against tolerance itself. Members of iGen, Ms. Twenge says, are more likely than their predecessors “to support restricting speech.” She found that “more than one out of four students (28%) agreed that ‘A faculty member who, on a single occasion, says something racially insensitive in class should be fired,’ ” while 16% believed a student who did the same thing once should be expelled. In a rare moment of judgmentalism, Ms. Twenge adds: “This is the dark side of tolerance; it begins with the good intentions of including everyone and not offending anyone but ends (at best) with a reluctance to explore deep issues and (at worst) with careers destroyed by a comment someone found offensive and the silencing of all alternative viewpoints.”

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Tolerance is good to an extent, but taking the above quote to the extreme is a very dangerous slope for society to go down. Civilized society kind of depends on adherence to and agreement on the idea that there are in fact certain fundamental things that are right and wrong. Not everything is "relative."

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Unless, that is, something is deemed an offense against tolerance itself. Members of iGen, Ms. Twenge says, are more likely than their predecessors “to support restricting speech.” She found that “more than one out of four students (28%) agreed that ‘A faculty member who, on a single occasion, says something racially insensitive in class should be fired,’ ” while 16% believed a student who did the same thing once should be expelled. In a rare moment of judgmentalism, Ms. Twenge adds: “This is the dark side of tolerance; it begins with the good intentions of including everyone and not offending anyone but ends (at best) with a reluctance to explore deep issues and (at worst) with careers destroyed by a comment someone found offensive and the silencing of all alternative viewpoints.” The supposed enthusiasm for tolerance among iGen-ers, Ms. Twenge says, is trumped by only one thing: the desire for safety, a term with a psychological dimension more than a physical one. “Safe spaces,” as we know, dot college campuses. Sometimes they feature “coloring books and videos of frolicking puppies, neatly connecting the idea of safe spaces with that of childhood,” Ms. Twenge notes. The trigger warnings and other protections mocked by critics as accommodations for “snowflakes,” she says, are “not fringe ideas but those embraced by the majority of iGen’ers.”

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Yet they don’t spend their time reading in any serious or systematic way either. Indeed, they are “much less likely to read books than their Millennial, GenX, and Boomer predecessors,” Ms. Twenge writes. Their academic skills lag behind those of millennials “by significant margins,” and they are “less informed” about current events.

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You know who their parents are? Gen X

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Yet they don’t spend their time reading in any serious or systematic way either. Indeed, they are “much less likely to read books than their Millennial, GenX, and Boomer predecessors,” Ms. Twenge writes. Their academic skills lag behind those of millennials “by significant margins,” and they are “less informed” about current events.

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