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CHRIS THURMAN: Why ‘snowflake’ must fall and opinions on M people should be moving on up (and out)
When you’re in my line of work — which includes the privilege of writing this column once a week, but the rest of the time entails research and teaching on a university campus — you spend a lot of time around the "M" people. No, I’m not referring to the British band that brought only-in-the-1990s dance hits such as Moving on Up and One Night in Heaven. That’s a very different generational marker. I’m talking about the M word that conjures endless condescension, resentment, derision and vitriol: millennials.What is less frequently acknowledged is that this is how older generations have been describing younger generations since time immemorial. The relationship with technology of millennials and post-millennials is unlike that of the rest of us, and consequently they consume and produce information differently. But, fellow older folk, we’re not talking about a different species. They simply exhibit that exquisite combination of boldness and vulnerability, of caring deeply and reckless...
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