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Flat White

The rise of the Middle-Aged Snowflake

6 September 2017

4:03 PM

6 September 2017

4:03 PM

We hear a lot these days about the strange fragility of our young people. Apparently, life has dealt them such a shameful hand, that they have been forced to remould university life into more of an overage kindergarten. This is where young adults, who terrifyingly, are allowed to vote, are being cocooned from the unbearable realities of real life with their ‘trigger warnings’, their ‘entitlement’ and their ‘existential threats’.

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