You see that you’re doing the generations thing right? Like you are doing the “lazy millennials” thing but just at a different generation. You’re falling for their propaganda.
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ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Gen Z is so dumb that they’re all going to be Nazis is 6 months.
scintilla@crust.piefed.social 1 day ago
Soup@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Only 54% of Gen Z voted for Harris and Gen Z males have a pretty big far-right problem. It’s not random nonsense about eating dirt or being on their phones, they’re actually being pretty fucking awful at way too high a rate for people that young.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
How does even decide when the various generation start and stop it seems so random.
rigatti@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Generally each generation is like 20ish years, with some variation in exactly what years, but that doesn’t really make sense anymore since culture changes so fast these days.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 1 day ago
I scoff at your statement, O' Lizard!
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I wonder if gen Z has media literacy. I am expecting approximately 0% to discontinue TicTok as result of the acquisition.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 1 day ago
No worries. We've all got that Lizard Brain deep down inside. Gen Z appears to have some literacy, thank goodness for that. More than I was aware of from direct interaction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_Generation_Z# Mostly I've noticed a subtle sarcasm, which If I try to emulate it just comes out sounding mean. So I don't do that anymore.
MrSmiley@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
After repetitive exposure to this propaganda (repetition priming), the people were beginning to believe and stand up for what each respective government had been flashing before their eyes, without them even knowing it.
sites.psu.edu/psych256sp18003/2018/03/04/h/
The fact they will be exposed to propaganda and misinformation, will have a psychological effect over time.
The individual must not be allowed to recover, to collect himself, to remain untouched by propaganda during any relatively long period, for propaganda is not the touch of the magic wand. It is based on slow, constant impregnation. It creates convictions and compliance through imperceptible influences that are effective only by continuous repetition. It must create a complete environment for the individual, one from which he never emerges.
Propaganda, Jacques Ellul
Forester@pawb.social 1 day ago
From my experience they do not. I shit you not their only source of news is tick tock. It’s somehow worse than the people who only get their news from Facebook. I have a brother who pretends to understand media literacy and constantly goes on about ground news but they never actually open it and read anything from it as far as I can tell because the only stories I get sent are directly from tick tock.
egrets@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Psst… O, not O’ - it’s the vocative particle, not a contraction of of or on.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 12 hours ago
lol
regedit@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
Nnnnnneeeeeerrrrrrrddddddd!
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
Its the billionaires against the working class, not generations fighting generations.
lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
As an older Gen Z, this generation is very split. The Gen Z in their twenties are extremely progressive and left-leaning, whereas younger Gen Z are deep in the alt-right pipeline. Obviously this doesn’t apply to everyone, but Gen Z really is two generations smooshed into one.
regedit@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
It’s the incel/red-/black-pill bullshit. I am an older millennial, turned 41 yesterday, in fact, and I have noticed the split in the gen-Z generation. At some point a lot stopped trying to grow as a person and started blaming women and minorities for why they were single and unfavorable to their preferred mates/society. Accountability and integrity just sort of stopped mattering to them when it became easier and more socially acceptable to be a shitty person and still gain fans/clout/etc.
Then comes along all these ‘bros’ who sell them this idea that their problem is just not being a big enough dick and being rich, loud, and large, Eden if you have to fake it until you make it. They promote the debunked study of alpha males and champion the grind, self-made mentality while pinning the blame for their future failures on outside factors like immigration and higher ed.
I had high hopes that we could unfuck the world together, with the leadership of gen-Z, but I didn’t think republican enough about how far the backslide would be. Now, I just expect to see the world crumble as the younger gen are lambs to the slaughter for the wars, sports, and land grabs of the ultra-rich.
al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 23 hours ago
Looks around everything is still fucked on earth and climate change is gonna kill us all, did it even fucking matter we didn’t become Nazis -mostly S . Seriously I want to leave.
Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Most of Gen Z are in their twenties and capable of thinking for themselves. Generally speaking, they’ve grown up accustomed to and accepting of neurodivergence, gender fluidity, and the spectrum of sexualities.
It’s the younger and older generations I’m more worried about.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They’re also MUCH more susceptible to misinformation and propaganda than the “in-between” generations. They aren’t as affected by traditional media, sure, but their new media sources are heavily propagandized, with visibility manipulated by the worst people in the world. They might HEAR about the dangers of misinformation or propaganda in the periphery, but with their primary interface being a handful of apps on a mobile device, there’s not much they can do about it without extensive education they aren’t getting.