Millennials are plagued by a large vocal minority of celebrities, activists, and internet personalities who dominated the political and cultural dialogue. All alternative view points have either failed to gain much traction, except for a comedian from Australia.
Neel Kolhatkar is a 21-year old Australian comic and social media sensation, who has packaged himself as the “millennium child.”
He has been making comedic videos on YouTube since he was just 14, mocking everything from race relations, college, majors, and 90s nostalgia to Australian politics and American pop culture.
Over the last year though his comedy had a new target: social justice warriors. Kolhatkar released two videos, “#Equality” and “Modern Educayshun,” that went viral for their humorous condemnations of the progressive sense of equality and political correctness.
Kolhatkar’s evolution as a comic has allowed to declare open season against the millennial college campus mindset, filling a huge void in comedy. While some comedians like Jerry Seinfeld have criticized millennial’s extreme take on political correctness, few have actually used humor to mock them.
Taking offence to every little thing said against your minority group shows a sensitivity that is disempowering in itself.
— Neel Kolhatkar (@NeelKolhatkar) December 4, 2015
Make no mistake, Kolhatkar does not package himself a right-wing comic. He often targets former conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott in his comedy and has several outspoken liberal beliefs.
He has an ability to separate disagreements he may have with conservatives without making him a full fledge cheerleader for all kinds of left-wing policies. This is in stark contrast to American comics like Amy Schumer and Aziz Ansari who promote a political correct agenda, victimhood, and left-wing politics. The Australian comedian is an iconoclast who shreds all those modern commandments.
Unlike many millennial comics who target the cultural consensus of their parents generation, Kolhatkar targets the trends being promoted by left-wing millennial ideology.
He openly mocks different races, makes parody videos of social justice warriors, and points out how hard people try to be inclusive but end up sounding racist.
The importance of Kolhatkar’s comedy cannot be overstated. He may become the first international millennial celebrity who shows Gen-Y that it’s okay to laugh at the ideologies of third-wave feminism, victimhood, and ethnic tribalism.
