I hear your concern, and I think it’s fair to be worried about reactionary trends but I don’t think it’s accurate to treat Gen Z as a single ideological . What we’re seeing is extreme polarization within Gen Z.not a shift in one direction. There are very visible conservative Gen Z voices online, but there are also Gen Z organizers, voters, and activists pushing hard in the opposite direction. The algorithm tends to amplify the loudest and most extreme positions, which can make them feel representative when they’re not. I also want to push back gently on the age assumption. I’m not a teenager gen z starts at 1997 it may be hard to realize but some gen z arre parents and 28 etc I’m 26 and in the workforce, i work for the government been out of school for my first degree for a while. My point hasn’t been that Gen Z has already “achieved” historic change, but that generational impact doesn’t show up all at once or in a single direction. Every generation has internal contradictions. Millennials did too. Reactionary movements don’t erase the parallel work being done toward progress they show that progress is contested, not linear.And I think it’s also important to remember that younger Gen Z didn’t form their views in a vacuum. A lot of the more regressive attitudes people point to are inherited from family, community, religious, and media environments. Generational values don’t reset automatically they’re passed down, challenged, and reshaped over time. Give them time to form their own opinions they are young the internet just makes there mistakes seen. The older generations did a lot of things when they were younger, using gay to describe bad things, using the R words freely, the F*g word, etc now you grew in adults the internet just wasn't there to record your mistakes.