Todd Starnes for Fox News isn’t the only one taking note of the tactics of Millennials and the negative effect they could have on our country. On Nov. 27, less than a week after Starnes’ piece, Wealth Daily published a similar piece by Jeff Edwards, “Will Millennials Wreck America?”
Like Starnes, Edwards makes mention of the 40 percent of Millennials who are in favor of the government banning speech offensive to Millennials. Edwards devotes more attention to the 40 percent, making them the focus of his piece.
Edwards also does not hold back. In part his intro reads:
So you have been given fair warning Millennials, and if that means you need to retreat to your ‘safe place’ and calm yourself at the site of your endless array of participation trophies, so be it.
Because I can tolerate all the oddities of your generation, but when you take aim at the basis of our entire concept of liberty, then we got problems.
The piece is divided into subheadlines. In “The Virtue of Dissenting Thought,” Edwards writes “I believe that offensive speech is the canary in the mine shaft of freedom.” He also reminds readers that the nation was founded on such virtue. So when it comes to choosing between “hurting [Millennials’] feelings and the destruction of liberty,” Edwards is choosing the former.
Then there’s “The Cost of an Emotionally Fragile Generation,” which comprises the rest of the piece. Edwards warns of Millennials, which he describes as the “don’t offend me” generation,” controlling the nation, especially with their stance against free speech. He writes:
But in a society where the 40% are known to be the most vocal and active as they scream about their outrage, I fear they will all but bully the 60% into shredding liberty right alongside them.
Edward hopes that Millennials “are too young and stupid to realize what [they] are doing.”
