I can’t help but laugh everytime I see people saying “GenZ will change the world”. Honey, we ain’t changing shit if we keep acting the way we are acting.

Let’s start with the fact that our first reaction to things is cancel people, not try to educate them - And don’t say “Oh, but I tried to educate them and they didn’t want to hear”. Of course they didn’t, because before you decided to be kind and explain to them why what they did/said is wrong, way more angry teenagers yelled at them and said they should kill themselves without trying to explain before why they were wrong -. It reminds me of when I did something wrong and my mom yelled at me and hit me, and even after that she refused to explain to me why what I did is wrong saying that “It’s obvious”.

The fun thing is that the “woke” people doing that act as if they never did anything wrong their whole life and when we say that they are like “Oh, but I grew up”. Yeah, dude, you did, but why don’t you want to give people a second chance? Cancel Culture is the definition of “one strike and you’re out”. It was supposed to be used against rapists and abusive people, but people missed the point really hard.

Everyone should have the chance grow up their character and be better. Let’s not even get into the fact that some people don’t know that certain things are wrong to say. I didn’t know until this year that it isn’t right to say “coulored people”, that it isn’t right to say “morena”, “doméstica”, “criado-mudo”, “sapatão” (those last four are words from my country, Brazil). So many things I didn’t know that were wrong, but that I learned they were because someone took time to explain me instead of just jumping on my throat and calling me racist and homophobic.

Canceling people won’t make a better world. Educanting people will.

Gen Z just seem to be a woke generation, because most people from our generation are just making peformative actvism. They are all woke on the internet, but are assholes on real life. The amount of racists that pretend to support BLM on the internet to earn likes is HUGE. And most of them just stay in twitter canceling people as if it will really help.

Also, when you get to the ones who are really trying to help, a lot of them are doing selective activism. I’ve seen so many people who fight agaisnt racism, but who are homophobic. So many people who fight against racism and homophobia, but who are transphobic.  So many people who fight against racism, homophobia and transphobia, but who are against people inside the aroace aspectrum and other sexualities under the bi aspectrum.  So many people who fight against racism and who support everyone inside the LGBTQ+ community, but who are ableist. So many people who fight against racism, support everyone inside the LGBTQ+ community, support disabled people, but let stammeres out (as strange as it sounds, I’ve already seen people being questioned ablout it and saying that “Stammers aren’t disabled enough”. Whatever the hell it’s supposed to mean).

So yeah, Gen Z won’t change shit if our activism stay being performative and selective and if we don’t take our heads out of our asses to educate people instead of just canceling them and pretending that the problem dissapeared just because we aren’t seeing it.

Ok, that post was waaaaaay more long than I pretended, but I really needed to take it out of my chest. Sorry.