Author, D. Denise Dianaty
1 min readMay 5, 2023

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I think that's true. However, Gen Z is more blamed and bullied than any generation I can recall – yes, I think they're more demeaned than the hippies. Across every demographic of Gen Z, I really do think they're taking a worse barrage of nastiness from the old guard than the era of counter culture and civil rights.

I know there were lynchings and protestors were beaten in the Old South. But Gen Z Black unarmed people are being straight up murdered with near impunity by the police. That's not just a regional issue – it's happening from the reddest to the bluest states.

Gen Z have grown up as the most increasingly unsafe generation in our history. Their entire childhood, they had to endure active shooter drills on the regular – my son's schools had more of them than they had fire drills. School has virtually become day-prisons, with kids moving through the halls under the always suspicious and watchful gaze of school cops cum prison guards. Yet, the mass slaughter only accelerated year after year.

Gen Z girls and women are watching their rights and basic human autonomy being stripped away. They've watched helpless as the old guard tries to turn them into brood mares for the state with forced birth agendas.

Gen Z LGBTQ are under attack worse than any time since the Stonewall Riots. Every generation since the early 20th Century as experienced expanding civil rights and greater social progress. Gen Z is watching those rights and progress be stripped away from them.

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Author, D. Denise Dianaty
Author, D. Denise Dianaty

Written by Author, D. Denise Dianaty

Artist, Poet, author, wife & mom May my epitaph be "She reflected love into the world."

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