AOC has done it again!
The freshman lawmaker – who recently said the Electoral college was a ‘racist scam‘ – declared on Instagram this week that “young people are more informed and dynamic than their predecessors.“
(and every one of them has a participation award to prove it!)
The bartendress-turned-lawmaker then added “this new generation is very profound … They actually take time to read and understand our history.”
Annihilating Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s latest expert-opinion is the Washington Examiner‘s Brad Polumbo, who writes in a Friday Op-Ed her claim is “absurd to the point of hilarity,” and that “Nothing could be further from the truth.”
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Via the Washington Examiner
The millennial generation and Generation Z behind them, of which I am part, is uniquely disengaged from history and woefully uninformed. Which she went on to prove, naturally. In praising the new generation as the first “wiling to go to the streets” and protest, she appears to have forgotten about the 1960s. Oops!
But she disproves her own point in more ways than one. Young people increasingly identify as socialist, which on its own shows that they are woefully ignorant of history. That ideology of failure and oppression has a very dark past of which few are aware. And only 16% of millennials are even able to define socialism in the first place.
As far as broader historical literacy goes, two of three millennials, the same generation that Ocasio-Cortez deems “informed and dynamic,” do not even know what Auschwitz is. Ignorance of the Nazi death camp is bad enough, but 1 in 5 millennials aren’t even aware of the Holocaust at all.
This isn’t exactly a surprise, when you look at young peoples’ habits. According to Business Insider, “Millennials spend far less time consuming news overall than older adults, and the time they do spend is concentrated on digital consumption. Millennials ages 21-37 consume only about 30% of the amount of news as adults age 38 and older.”
Plus, many young people don’t read books. At all.
Per Forbes, “38% of students at public and private four-year colleges reported that ‘Books have never gotten me very excited.’ And 45% said ‘I don’t enjoy reading serious books and articles, and I only do it when I have to.’”
These statistics come as little surprise. Take it from someone on the border of both Generation Z and the millennial generation: Today’s young people are not the “most-informed” generation, or anywhere close. If they were, Ocasio-Cortez wouldn’t have a mass social media following in the first place.
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