The Millennial Rep
Millennial usually refers to someone born in the 1980s or the 1990s, but we now see it being used as an insult. It means narcissistic, self-obsessed, lazy, ‘snowflakes’. There is a growing trend of articles bashing this generation – we’re too liberal, too obsessed with social media and, single-handedly responsible for the decline of various industries.
Some of these claims do seem to be true on the face of things. For example, we are more liberal than previous generations within our politics, and we are less likely to stand for discrimination than our grandparents would have been. It seems to me that this is the nature of any evolving democratic society. We have a growing understanding of human rights, and we want to be accepting of each other.
The value of this claim is lost, howeve...