What's the difference between millenial and Gen Z politics?

[WindowPhil]

Since the polling isn't very insightful from my experience, here are some anecdotal observations I've had that have generally held up.

(Note: not all of these are political. But "politics is downstream from culture" so these may help paint a more accurate picture)

Something I noticed is that many more Gen Z left wingers than millennials have a more "Intersectional" approach to social issues. Race ties into gender, which ties into sexuality and gender identity, which ties into class. Instead of thinking of race and sexual orientation and gender equality as separate spheres. And more of a conciousness in regards to class (as it's a fascet of intersectionality).

Militant Atheism is seen by Gen Z as an outdated 2000s neckbeard ideology. Back in the early 2000s, it was seen as a trendy, hip, lefty thing. But now it's seen by Gen Z as a bunch of smug people who aren't well adjusted. The days of Bush are gone, and society is more secular in general.

The stereotypical hipster male who has a manbun, beard, drinks IPAs, and listens to indie music is a dying breed and isn't really a thing for Gen Z men.

Gen Z people across the board have a more libertarian view of gender norms than millennials do. "Femboys" are a thing for Gen Z, and even if they aren't full fledged femboys, many Gen Z men aren't like "I can't do that girly thing. That'll make me gay". The women are just as "tech nerd" as the guys, with many on platforms like Reddit and Discord.

Lots of Gen Z love hip hop. Even white Gen Z conservatives listen to Hip Hop. The stereotypical music a white middle/upper class Gen Z woman listens to is indie/bedroom pop. So I guess that's an exception.

Lots of Gen Z love anime. No matter their race/gender/politics.

Establishment support seems low across the board. With many right wing Gen Z falling into the Paleoconservative Trump camp and many left wing Gen Z falling into the Bernie/AOC camp.

[WindowPhil]

It could just be because Gen Z is still pretty young, but there hasn't been much organizing from them (us, but for the sake of consistency them) yet. Millennials made up a lot of the energy behind the anti-Iraq War protests, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, the Sanders campaign, the DSA, and the alt-right. We don't see the same organizing from Gen Z (yet? But the oldest is 25). Anecdotally, as a consequence of the Bush years, many more Millennials belong to center-left progressive/democratic socialist/social democratic politics after having been further left as kids. Gen Z seems to be a fairly split between alt-right-influenced and center-left-influenced. They're not a conservative generation as the right hopes, but probably to the right of Millennials.

I've noticed alot of Zoomers doing activism stuff.

Regardless, they're more politically minded than millennials, who in contrast were fairly apolitical as teenagers.

[WindowPhil]

I've noticed alot of Zoomers doing activism stuff.

Could you elaborate?

Many things on TikTok.

At the age when Millennial boys were fixating on XTREME SPORTS and Millennial girls were fixating on "like, shopping", left wing Zoomers were claiming tickets to Trump's rally
without going to it in order to mess with the campaigns internal numbers.

Lots of Zoomers matched in the George Floyd Protests.

[WindowPhil]

This is anecdotal, but to add an observation I’ve noticed- Gen Z politics seems to be far more divided on gender than previous generations.


This isn’t to say that there aren’t any conservative Gen Z women, or that all Gen Z males are conservatives. There obviously are a lot of exceptions.

But it is significantly, significantly, more common to see suburban Gen Z females support left wing activist related paraphernalia than it is to see Gen Z males of any races support it.

Suburbs are mostly white, and it's a way for them to go "I'm a woman, that makes me a minority and therefore a person of color" and absolve them of any white guilt.

[WindowPhil]

This is anecdotal, but to add an observation I’ve noticed- Gen Z politics seems to be far more divided on gender than previous generations.


This isn’t to say that there aren’t any conservative Gen Z women, or that all Gen Z males are conservatives. There obviously are a lot of exceptions.

But it is significantly, significantly, more common to see suburban Gen Z females support left wing activist related paraphernalia than it is to see Gen Z males of any races support it.

This is the correct take on Gen Z.

Do you think that the average Gen Z woman is less religious than the average Gen Z man?