So what's an older zoomer considered (in terms of age range)?
I'm either an old millennial or a young gen x ("Oregon Trail" generation). Late 30s, +/- a year or two.
I logged into Facebook for the first time in months last week. Looked up a whole bunch of friends from highschool. It was kind of shocking. Almost every single one of them is just a complete unabashed raving SJW liberal now. They were gamers, stoners, apolitical, smart kids, dumb kids, etc., in high school, just, you know, average people. Now reading what they post on Facebook they sound like freakout Karen dangerhairs. This guy I knew whose favorite thing was making "dead baby" jokes in highschool posted how he was literally crying when Biden won. Another guy posted how he got "chills" when he saw Wikipedia's entry for "President Biden" and it just kept going.
Actually you know what the difference is? Smart or dumb, stoner or jock, the guys who now work for non-profits, universities/schools, or the government, are all universally leftist freakouts.
The FEW who started their own businesses, or are contractors, or one guy who is an independent attorney, etc., either became conservative or were conservative before hand.
I'm curious where you're from (roughly, mainly a fairly conservative or liberal place). I am around the same age and did the same exercise just to see and saw very little as far as raging leftists. Strangely enough all of them were either teachers or nurses and only one of them was male. Definitely a soy male though, had the clothes, the glasses, the little "I got vaccinated" thing on their Facebook picture. I almost hate I have glasses anymore but I've worn them since I before I started school.
I grew up in the southern US, but not in a small town in a county that went to Biden. State overwhelmingly for Trump though.
Southern state, solid Trump win, in a mid-size city that is blue blue blue. Basically the second you get out of city limits it's Trump country, but within city limits its like 85/15 blue.
Well people tend to put the beginning of the Zoomer generation somewhere in the late 90s- one good defining standard I heard was that if you're too young to remember 9/11 you are a zoomer.
Some people put it a bit earlier around 1995-1996 but I've heard convincing arguments that there's kind of a mini in between generation in that range that doesn't fit into either millennial or zoomers and has its own identity.
In any case I was born in early 2001, so definitely a zoomer regardless of one's definition.
And yes I agree with regard to the people staying in academia the longest being the most leftist. It's a chicken or egg situation as to whether they make academia more leftist by their presence or they stay in academia because it was already leftist to begin with.
Hah! I was in college when you were born, and maybe in 2002 there was a big debate on campus about political registration of professors. It was pointed out that like 29/30 history professors were registered dem. 10/10 art history. 14/14 anthropology. 22/25 economics professors. etc. (made up numbers, but roughly in those quantities), Unsurprisingly, the VAST majority of professors were registered dems.
I remember attending a debate that was held between the campus conservative group and a campus liberal group. One professor actually stood up and said "Well, conservatives just aren't interested in pure learning--they're not interested in becoming professors because they want to join private industry. We don't discriminate against conservatives in hiring, because they're aren't any."
While it may or may not be true that many conservatives ARE more driven to start businesses, etc., she was totally blind to the fact that making statements like "Conservatives aren't interested in learning" or organizing a art history curriculum that is entirely Marxist, feminist, queer, etc, rather than just ... focused on history and art ... they drive out anyone that doesn't fit in to their mold.
So yeah, it is a chicken or the egg situation, but the chickens also smash all the eggs that don't fit nicely into their nests.
So what's an older zoomer considered (in terms of age range)?
I'm either an old millennial or a young gen x ("Oregon Trail" generation). Late 30s, +/- a year or two.
I logged into Facebook for the first time in months last week. Looked up a whole bunch of friends from highschool. It was kind of shocking. Almost every single one of them is just a complete unabashed raving SJW liberal now. They were gamers, stoners, apolitical, smart kids, dumb kids, etc., in high school, just, you know, average people. Now reading what they post on Facebook they sound like freakout Karen dangerhairs. This guy I knew whose favorite thing was making "dead baby" jokes in highschool posted how he was literally crying when Biden won. Another guy posted how he got "chills" when he saw Wikipedia's entry for "President Biden" and it just kept going.
Actually you know what the difference is? Smart or dumb, stoner or jock, the guys who now work for non-profits, universities/schools, or the government, are all universally leftist freakouts.
The FEW who started their own businesses, or are contractors, or one guy who is an independent attorney, etc., either became conservative or were conservative before hand.
I'm curious where you're from (roughly, mainly a fairly conservative or liberal place). I am around the same age and did the same exercise just to see and saw very little as far as raging leftists. Strangely enough all of them were either teachers or nurses and only one of them was male. Definitely a soy male though, had the clothes, the glasses, the little "I got vaccinated" thing on their Facebook picture. I almost hate I have glasses anymore but I've worn them since I before I started school.
I grew up in the southern US, but not in a small town in a county that went to Biden. State overwhelmingly for Trump though.
Southern state, solid Trump win, in a mid-size city that is blue blue blue. Basically the second you get out of city limits it's Trump country, but within city limits its like 85/15 blue.
Well people tend to put the beginning of the Zoomer generation somewhere in the late 90s- one good defining standard I heard was that if you're too young to remember 9/11 you are a zoomer.
Some people put it a bit earlier around 1995-1996 but I've heard convincing arguments that there's kind of a mini in between generation in that range that doesn't fit into either millennial or zoomers and has its own identity.
In any case I was born in early 2001, so definitely a zoomer regardless of one's definition.
And yes I agree with regard to the people staying in academia the longest being the most leftist. It's a chicken or egg situation as to whether they make academia more leftist by their presence or they stay in academia because it was already leftist to begin with.
Hah! I was in college when you were born, and maybe in 2002 there was a big debate on campus about political registration of professors. It was pointed out that like 29/30 history professors were registered dem. 10/10 art history. 14/14 anthropology. 22/25 economics professors. etc. (made up numbers, but roughly in those quantities), Unsurprisingly, the VAST majority of professors were registered dems.
I remember attending a debate that was held between the campus conservative group and a campus liberal group. One professor actually stood up and said "Well, conservatives just aren't interested in pure learning--they're not interested in becoming professors because they want to join private industry. We don't discriminate against conservatives in hiring, because they're aren't any."
While it may or may not be true that many conservatives ARE more driven to start businesses, etc., she was totally blind to the fact that making statements like "Conservatives aren't interested in learning" or organizing a art history curriculum that is entirely Marxist, feminist, queer, etc, rather than just ... focused on history and art ... they drive out anyone that doesn't fit in to their mold.
So yeah, it is a chicken or the egg situation, but the chickens also smash all the eggs that don't fit nicely into their nests.