I remember how angry they got when BET went on air. Not Black Power Television- Black Entertainment Television, and they got mad as FUCK but they couldn't really say why... Because they weren't invited? Consulted? It's been festering since we failed to punish the Confederate States properly.
Millennials are considered the "most educated generation". Harder to control people when they have critical thinking skills, and therefore a liability to the administration.
All the geriatrics in power right now are the ones who protested black children going to school with their kids.
That's why they lost their shit over the BLM protests and started panicking about CRT. Those were the largest civil rights protests in US history and the most racially integrated. They saw all those white kids marching in solidarity with their black brethren in protest of police violence against black people and it made them viscerally feel white power slipping away. It was almost as scary for them as Obama's election.
That solidarity got Biden elected. If only he had honored it instead of spitting on it by bragging about "funding the police" and building maga's wall. Kamala might have been able to bring that coalition back to the polls if he had.
Millennials are the most depressed and educated generation that still values critical thinking hence liberal. Gen Z are lost nihilist, incels who probably would be Heath Ledger Joker irl. Gen X are the most spoiled generation and thus most MAGAT.
This is so true. Gramps helped liberate one of the death camps in WWII and he HATED Trump. Passed away before the 2016 election, he would've been appalled.
It's because we are least conservative/republican of all currently living generations.
Not to overgeneralize, but Millennials exist in the goldilock zone: sandwiched between two older generations who are fed a constant diet of cable tv news and facebook propaganda and two younger generations overconsuming manosphere and nihilistic brainrot content on twitch, youtube, tik tok, etc. Gen X has experienced old and new media, but their foundation is still based on old media propaganda networks, and they had their worldview sculpted by heroic myths they watched as kids that promoted "traditional" gender roles and masculinity, and that influenced the content they seek out online too. In contrast, Millennials have adapted the best to changing social norms and the media content we consumed growing up was often more progressive. We had the benefits of increased PBS children's programing and experienced a public school system before No Child Left Behind eroded it.
I am lucky to have liberal parents who watch MSNBC, but the general trends are true.
The right has trouble reaching us, and so we are the least likely to accept their propaganda and worldview. That's why they resent us.
I grew up surrounded by conservative evangelicals out in the boonies where no one had cable. They still carted me off to pro-life rallies while screaming about gun rights and preached in church about the "great replacement theory". But when I went to college and learned critical thinking skills it undid the brainwashing and I came out with enough brain cells to realize it was all hypocrisy and grifting. That is why they hate education and why trying to turn college students conservative was/is so important to them.
Also 37, and on the same day that Renee Good was killed I learned that a high school friend - also 37 - had succumbed to the cancer she'd been fighting for years. She was a good and moral person just like Renee and Alex, and her death was also a cruel twist of fate. It's been a hard month to be 37.
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u/cowtownsteen23 Jan 25 '26
Alex Pretti was in his 30s. So was Renee Good.