"Left-leaning Gen Xer's thought that by listening to Rihanna, skateboarding to work and going to Coachella, they could defeat the generation gap. Now they are grappling with the idea that they may be causing offence--sometimes inadvertently--through a tweeted microaggression or an offensive Halloween costume or sombrero worn at a tequila party or a positive comment about Bill Leak's legacy or personality on Twitter after he died.
"The response--at least online--is punitive if offence is caused.
"According to the piece in New Yorker on the new campus politics--it's 'flummoxed many people who had always thought of themselves as devout liberals. Wasn't free self-expression the whole point of social progressivism?'"
Brigid Delaney at The Guardian says that the "generation gap is back."
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