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user-inactivated  ·  4063 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Congrats, Millennials. Now It's Your Turn to Be Vilified | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

Eh, well on a hierarchy of things people find uneasy about me, it'd probably be:

    Being Black

    Having a Weird Name

    Finding out I'm Muslim

    My Age

So probably not too much of a negative bias. As for a positive one: people sometimes equate "being better than the rest of my generation" with "knowing how to fucking present myself." Hell, it's probably how I got my last job - I was told the person who was interviewed before me came in with tennis shorts and flip-flops. That's not because of his age, it's because he's fucking stupid.

It amazes me how people can make such a crazy wide generalization over one generation. In every generation, there'll be people who do super well, people who suck terribly, and people like me - who are just trying to make it through without fucking killing ourselves. Don't think that makes us entitled. Plus we have to deal with all the shit you guys handed to us, like the fucked up environment and my inability to get a decent job and that good 'ole widening wealth gap, but, hey, who's countin, amirite?