{"id":261225,"date":"2024-04-29T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=261225"},"modified":"2024-04-29T06:09:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T05:09:45","slug":"gen-z-just-might-save-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/04\/gen-z-just-might-save-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Z just Might Save the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_261229\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/generation-z-gen-z-Investopedia.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261229\" class=\"wp-image-261229\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/generation-z-gen-z-Investopedia-1024x692.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/generation-z-gen-z-Investopedia-1024x692.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/generation-z-gen-z-Investopedia-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/generation-z-gen-z-Investopedia-768x519.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/generation-z-gen-z-Investopedia.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-261229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Investopedia<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>[<strong>From TMS Editor<\/strong>: Who Is Generation Z? Generation Z (also called Gen Z, Zoomers, or post-millennials) is the second-youngest generation, with Millennials before and <\/em><span data-enable-toggle-animation=\"true\" data-extra-container-classes=\"ZLo7Eb\" data-hover-hide-delay=\"1000\" data-hover-open-delay=\"500\" data-send-open-event=\"true\" data-theme=\"0\" data-width=\"250\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwj_jZHU0OaFAxUQW0EAHXdIA_cQmpgGegQIKBAD\"><em>Generation Alpha<\/em><\/span><em> after. Gen Zers were born between the late 1990s and early 2012s. Currently, Gen Z makes up 20% of the US population.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">********************************<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>There are so many reasons to feel pessimistic, but Gen Z\u2019s fierce opposition to the Gaza genocide is a massive reason to have hope for the future.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_261231\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/gen-z-gaza-genocide-demo-protest.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261231\" class=\"wp-image-261231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/gen-z-gaza-genocide-demo-protest-1024x536.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/gen-z-gaza-genocide-demo-protest-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/gen-z-gaza-genocide-demo-protest-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/gen-z-gaza-genocide-demo-protest-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/gen-z-gaza-genocide-demo-protest.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-261231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Mx. Granger, Wikmedia Commons (CC0 1.0 DEED)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>28 Apr 2024 <\/em>&#8211; Kids are taking over university campuses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/4\/26\/are-us-campus-protests-against-israels-war-on-gaza-going-global\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">around the world<\/a> for the noblest possible reason anyone could do such a thing in 2024. There are <em>so<\/em> many reasons to feel pessimistic, but Gen Z\u2019s fierce opposition to the Gaza genocide is a massive reason to have hope for the future.<\/p>\n<p>I talk all the time here about the need for a collective awakening and revolution in order to turn this disaster of a civilization around, but it could turn out that what ends up saving humankind is as mundane as a superior generation of humans emerging out of the information age and replacing inferior generations who\u2019ve been far more indoctrinated by mass media propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Northeastern University brought in the police to break up a pro-Palestine demonstration, claiming antisemitic slurs and hate speech were being used by the demonstrators, but <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/75t0u\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">witnesses say<\/a> it was actually pro-Israel counter-demonstrators who\u2019d been shouting the antisemitic slogans, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tori_Bedford\/status\/1784222169746063773\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a video confirms this<\/a>. The pro-Israel agitators got some 100 demonstrators arrested by standing near them and shouting \u201cKill the Jews\u201d, but they themselves were not arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever got this on video is a goddamn hero. Now nobody can deny that this has been happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Northeastern University crushed an anti-genocide protest because someone was heard shouting, &quot;Kill the Jews.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>At :10, it is clear a pro-Israel counter-protester holding an Israeli flag was the one who uttered that phrase<\/p>\n<p>Yet another Zionist hate crime hoax <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yA6CnRdNUV\" >https:\/\/t.co\/yA6CnRdNUV<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xlnzFOanli\" >pic.twitter.com\/xlnzFOanli<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxBlumenthal\/status\/1784389687798366610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >April 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com.au\/2024\/04\/28\/gen-z-just-might-save-the-world\/\" >Continue reading in the Original<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 Apr 2024 &#8211; There are so many reasons to feel pessimistic, but Gen Z\u2019s fierce opposition to the Gaza genocide is a massive reason to have hope for the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":261229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[87,3292,865,88,427,70,172,1025],"class_list":["post-261225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","tag-gaza","tag-gen-z","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-usa","tag-west","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261233,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261225\/revisions\/261233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}