Not wanting to die for Great Britain does not make Z stupid – ignore your views at your danger Sarah Manavis

AHe was informed that the progressive attitudes of younger generations would “save” us and lead us to a utopian future. We quickly learn that the politics of gene Z-Die 13- to 27-year-olds from today-Ewas is more broken, with as many young people who have right views such as left (and even more).

In the last few days, this reality has become strong in the past few days after many surveys that have revealed “shocking” knowledge about the political attitudes of gene Z. A Post on Sunday The survey published two weeks ago showed that more than two thirds of the 18- to 27-year-olds supported the chemical castration for sex offenders and almost half halfway support to bring the death penalty back.

A survey of channel 4 – gen z: trends, truth and trust – published a few days earlier that more than half of the gene Zers believed that “Great Britain would be a better place if a strong leader were responsible for not doing so has to take care of parliament and elections ”. A third said that Great Britain would be a better place if the army were responsible.

A survey by the Just Published on Monday, far fewer alarming views, like most Gen -zers, are not proud to be British, and only each of 10 would fight for their country – findings that were classified as shocking Just Reader.

You could think that this evidence would come with concern and alarm and require urgent interventions on how best to help and understand these reactionary young people in order to distract them from such disturbing beliefs. Instead, the answer was the opposite: these young people were completely mocked, patronized and described as “ahistorical”, “illiterate” and simply “stupid” online and in the media.

But how effective is this criticism of changing the spirit of young people if this is actually the real intention? The recent history has shown that this approach is not only useless, but can also be dangerous.

These commentators have fallen into an obvious trap since 2016, alienation, alienation and scolding (while they are on their backs for their moral superiority) have only led to the fact that these harmful views fellow and grow. It is the exact problem with how the left and the center approached the rise of racism and anti-feminism in the past decade.

Instead of trying to understand and distribute disenfranchised people, speak to them and make it funny about them-it makes it easier for heavy characters like Andrew Tate and even Donald Trump to use their disillusionment.

Now these views are not just a fringe movement, but in the mainstream (and increasingly the power). It is naive to believe that we do not encounter identical circumstances with gene Z and that the same phenomenon does not occur again if we – instead of understanding what it has pushed to the right – only call them idiots.

Z has landed here after he has suffered bad socio -economic circumstances. They entered adulthood in a recession when the guardrails quickly accepted disinformation and, after they had grown up in old age during the covid, without the difficult, incorrectly informed noise of social media. They deserve a connection and curiosity, especially of older generations that have not even taken into account with a shadow of these difficulties.

“Gen Z is a brilliant, lively, creative, bubbling mass of ideas and deep beliefs,” said Alex Mahon, Managing Director of Channel 4. “Your collective genius is our future, but you need a Britain that you can trust. We have to ask what we can do to keep them with us to interweave them into a community that we can share in front of them and those who come after them. “

For a healthy democracy and even the harmonious life between the generations, the active wish must give itself to dealing with what has caused us to come to the views we have. It is understandable why this feels uncomfortable – after all, many of these opinions are hideous and dehuman.

However, these results are ultimately symptoms of a deeper problem that is not solved without openness and understanding. This requires no acceptance, but the willingness to turn and help – and not to turn your back towards the crisis.