To put this in context just before Alexis Bloomer appeared on FOX Jesse Watters did "a man on the street interview" with about a dozen Millennials. He showed them these three photos and not one knew who they were.
Watters [holding up image of Ronald Reagan]: Who does this look like to you?
“An old man.”
“Uh, he was a president.”
Watters: Which president?
“I forgot.”
“Not Bush.”
“I live in Vermont. They don’t teach us that.”
Watters: They don’t teach you the president in Vermont.
“Nah.”
Watters: Oh man. Must be because Sanders is your senator.
“Yeah.”
Watters: He won which war?
“Vietnam.”
“The war of democracy of not being able to have privacy in the U.S.”
Watters [holding up image of Martin Luther King, Jr.]: Next one.
“I don’t know who he is, but he doesn’t look too happy.”
Watters: You wouldn’t be too happy if you were him either. He was assassinated.
“He like, did this big ole [SIC] movement, big ole speech, 'I Have a Dream'.”
Watters: What was the movement for?
“To stop slavery.”
Watters: They stopped slavery in the eighteen hundreds.
“Oh.”
Watters: What do we know about the King?
“He has a day named after him…and I don’t know.”
Watters: You get off on that day…from work.
Watters [holding up image of Marilyn Monroe]: Do you know who this is?
“Madonna.”
What is she famous for?
“Dance, music, art and expression.”
“She stood on a subway grate and had her dress blow up.”
Watters: Do you know what president she fooled around with?
“Teddy Roosevelt.”
“Maybe it was Bush.”
Okay, I'll let them slide on MM as crazy as that sounds. But they didn't know who RR and MLK were? Just what are these f--ks being taught in school?
On the other hand, pick the Kardashian and I bet they can tell you the circumference of their ass.
Oh...and they vote!
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Alexis Bloomer, a Texas anchor at Channel 7, "watched as a young man stepped in front of a limping elderly man and didn't hold the door open for him" last Friday and was so angered by what she'd seen she posted a video about how that young man is all Millennials' spirit animal. On Facebook, the video, which is captioned, "Dear Elders, I'm sorry. Sincerely, A Millennial," has been viewed more than 40 million times, has 1 million shares, and thousands on thousands of comments.
"I pretty much realized that we're just existing, we're not contributing anything to society," Bloomer begins. We don't address our elders with "no ma'am" and "yes ma'am," we listen to music that glorifies drugs and crime, we "use words like 'bae' to describe someone we love, and we idolize people like Kim Kardashian and we shame people like Tim Tebow," making us ungrateful as a whole. Millennials are lazy, entitled, and when they want to be activists, they "[go] on Facebook and [post their] opinion."
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