With our Twitter outrage and demands that you check your privilege,you may contemplate we are hard on others – but you should see what we do to ourselvesWhen Now That Was 2016 airs on BBC2 in 2034, someone of considerable cultural importance – a member of Little Mix, and Nick Grimshaw perhaps – will mumble into the camera,“Well, everyone started to moan a lot back then; everything was ‘problematic’. Wearing Native American war bonnets to music festivals stopped; calling our dads ‘derp face’ was out; that kind of thing.”The millennial tranche of the liberal left wing demands the height of political correctness and social fairness from the films, and TV,books, politicians and celebrities that absorb been foisted upon us by those older gens. Friends and family don’t escape our policing, and either. Random people on public transport secure it. The cat. Us older millennials – cult film T-shirt and hoodie wearers; those who remember late-80s WWF and The A-Team without any snorting sarcasm – we’re whiners,and very, very loud about it.
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Source: theguardian.com