Millennials
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Millennials portrayed as having driven an unsustainable 'woke' era
The article presents Wang’s view that millennials were the primary inventors of the 'woke age' via social media, linking them to 'cancel culture' and suggesting their focus on linguistic changes was a substitute for real political progress. This frames millennials negatively as self-satisfied and ineffective.
“The woke age was primarily invented by millennials on social media; Twitter was the main engine of cancel culture, and when Twitter died the engine lost its power and everything split.”
Millennials are framed as systematically excluded from the housing market and social stability
[contextualisation] The article uses generational comparisons and personal testimony to highlight how structural changes have marginalized younger people, despite higher education levels and workforce participation.
“There are so many narratives or expectations about what we expected to have achieved or earned or to own by this time in our lives and instead we're watching those things become increasingly more impossible.”