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"You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple..."

Next: Some people seem to think that it's petty or unimportant to point out racist celebrity misbehaviour because there are 'bigger issues' at play when it comes to racism, ie 'there's worse racism out there.'You should understand that normalising the casual mockery of people of colour through accepted mainstream culture - structurally preserving a white majority's right to have fun at someone else's expense - is a key building block in maintaining the hierarchy of racism. It's naive to write off this kind of seemingly banal, pervasive everyday behaviour as if it somehow has no connection to people ultimately accepting actual systemic violence like the NT Intervention, the War on Terror, our refugee policy, and Australia's straight up unwillingness to question our role in the wholesale dispossession of Aboriginal people.
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“You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious.”

- When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)

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