Bonus - Protests Without Politics w/ Vincent Bevins (Preview)
American Prestige
Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:54.2 | And obviously there are similarities in terms of how they're organized or organized online. They typically have some similarities in structure. But that, again, just feels like an artifact of the time in which we're living, right? Like this is how you organize things. You go online and you do that. I agree with one million percent. Yeah, yeah. I hate, okay, so I hate Gen Z. |
| 0:56.2 | I mean, to the extent that they have been- You too, we hate Gen Z. |
| 0:57.3 | Wow, okay. |
| 0:58.2 | Well, I hate them as a-breaking news. |
| 1:00.7 | I hate Gen Z. |
| 1:02.0 | But to the extent that some protesters have used Gen Z to refer to themselves and to use it as sort of like this meme that's crossing across countries, |
| 1:13.6 | that's part of the story. It's worth reporting. I think it gets blown out of proportion because |
| 1:18.7 | it's something that the global media finds legible, where there's all these other names of little |
| 1:21.9 | groups that are also going around that tend not to take off. But as a category that is used by the global commentariat, |
| 1:30.0 | as a way to understand or conceive or describe this way of a protest, |
| 1:33.2 | I hate Gen Z as a category. |
| 1:36.5 | I think it's, as you're indicating, I think Derek, |
| 1:38.9 | it's basically like saying protests now, right? |
| 1:43.1 | Like you might as well say like protest-de-protests or protests in |
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