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  • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    I’m finding it difficult to understand why you think younger people are somehow less stupid and impressionable?

    That’s almost a by-definition sort of expectation here.

    Young people are stupid and impressionable, just like how older people are less physically capable.

    Impressionability is literally a defining aspect of being young and still having a developing brain. This is also why it’s such a huge fight to corrupt our education system.

    • Skeezix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      2 days ago

      Think of how stupid the average genZer is, then remember: half of them are stupider than that.

    • FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      I’d guess it has to do with the benefit of doubt based on a lack of evidence, and a dash of confirmation bias thrown in. For example, there’s plenty of evidence that the generations before them suck at choosing leaders and then suck at governing when they finally get a seat at the table. I would choose to defend millennials because as an older millennial I am biased toward that generation. But Gen Z doesn’t yet have a lot of evidence out there in either direction.

      All that said, I feel like the statement “Boomers destroyed the planet in essentially every way and made life worse for every generation that preceded and followed it” is just fact. But again, I’m biased.