The AMAC website describes the results of a Morning Consult poll looking at the attitudes of various age groups toward critical race theory (CRT), socialism, capitalism, and cancel culture. I suspect you have an understanding of the first three, here is their definition of cancel culture.
Culture wars are by their very nature a fight for the future, and have therefore historically been fought along generational lines. “Cancel Culture” is part of a broader left-wing reaction against the traditions of the Enlightenment, which have been under sustained assault by a mostly millennial generation (born 1982-1995). Many in this generation believe that words are weapons, and that “problematic” speech should be “canceled” along with those who utter it.
"Canceled" means banned from social media, fired from jobs, terminated from friendships, denied publication, expelled from college, etc. For many of the young and middle aged, it amounts to an economic and social ostracism or shunning, the lay equivalent of excommunication.
The most interesting finding is that while cancel culture is relatively popular with millennials, it is much less popular with the younger Generation Z (Gen Z). Some 41% of millennials view it positively or neutrally while only 26% of Gen Z holds those views. If you're unclear, millennials were born between 1981-1996, while Gen Z were born between 1997-2008.
Baby boomers (1946-1964) and Gen X (1965-1980) are largely negative about cancel culture, socialism, and CRT. Millennials are the cohort most positive about CRT, socialism, and cancel culture.
If you're inclined to identify a group as "the enemy" (I'm not), it would be the millennials. I'll save my own personal negative labeling for those individuals who actually espouse those nihilistic views, plenty of millennials do not.
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Afterthought: Millennials were aged 11 to 26 when the Great Recession hit in 2007. I imagine they were scarred emotionally in a similar, if less violent fashion, to the way those now in their 80s-90s were affected by the 1930s Depression. Wikipedia writes of the Great Recession:
While the recession technically lasted from December 2007 – June 2009 (the nominal GDP trough), many important economic variables did not regain pre-recession (November or Q4 2007) levels until 2011–2016.
And the housing bubble burst earlier, in 2005, causing many families to lose homes and equity as demand fell and assessed values dropped. If that happened to your family I'd guess you'd not soon forget the anguish and bitterness, the sense of a dream denied.
