Gen Z Conservatives Debate Gen Z Liberals: Who Wins? - Unapologetic LIVE

out a statement and I want you guys to raise your hands if you agree with the statement statement number one women do not deserve rights raise your hand if you agree Taylor I don't see your hands raised all right just making sure we're all in the same page here let's get into the show [Applause] [Music] [Music] welcome back to Unapologetic live guys I couldn't think of an intro and once we get into the video that we're going to be reacting to which is Jubilee you'll understand why I came up with that intro today Jubilee put out an episode titled is Gen Z misinformed conservative teens versus liberals versus moderates actually it wasn't today it was yesterday but these you know we love to react to the Jubilee Middle Ground videos and give you our stances on the different statements that they put out for those of you who do not know the ground rules Jubilee is going to present a statement if you agree with the statement you walk forward and sit in the circle if you do not you stand back and wait the people who walked forward and agreed are gonna have a conversation then the people who disagree are going to come forward and join that conversation let's get into it this is Gen Z conservative teens versus liberal versus moderate humans welcome to Middle Ground keep an eye out for an interactive prompt in the middle of this episode and thank you Interactive our generation is misinformed are you guys walking forward for this one and by Our Generation we mean gen Z so you're going to look at this from the Gen Z perspective my immediate upon hearing it I don't feel like walking forward on this I think as far as misinformed goes I don't think you can label an entire generation misinformed I think gen Z is more linked into information than any generation before it so if they're misinformed we're really all misinformed so I guess you can put that blanket statement over everybody but it's got to be over everybody yeah I'm almost like ready to skip past this part into like the actual conversation because whether I say they're misinformed or informed it's like it doesn't really matter kind of land yeah yeah what do you think um yeah I would say probably the same I think that it you can't really make a generalization so okay perfect so we're not walking all right down the middle we are right down the middle we're moderates um I do feel our generation is heavily misinformed sometimes because of social media a lot of the times they just see movements as sort of a trend without looking into them and I feel that that happened so much they'll just go with it and I feel like a lot of the times it makes it very easy for us to kind of just be tailed by the government and I feel that we need to do a lot better job at looking into things and really reading into things and starting to take facts over feelings okay that's interesting Ben Shapiro just look at something and accept it as truth then to go and do your research and find um counterclaims looks like we need to boost the volume for the audience people are saying yeah there we go aligns with that because if you're just sitting there like scrolling through Tick Tock and somebody says that this is happening I mean like who's gonna it's not really educate yourself yeah yeah I am I strongly agree with both of you guys um you know I think the reason why I was hesitant about walking over is uh even though I agree that our generation is misinformed that doesn't mean that older Generations aren't also misinformed especially you know in the form of for like Gen X and the Baby Boomers or whatever cable news in particular you have millions of Americans now who are tuning in every night to see Tucker Carlson spread misinformation I don't want to pick on him in particular but he's an example social media is just another example of what's been going on for generations and generations of people just with all due respect being too lazy to do their own research and just yeah pause I think we're in probably one of the most informed generations of our times just by virtue of being so connected through the internet and being just having this Global connectivity to things that are happening in places far separated from where we are today like I can wake up and hear about protests that young women are engaging in in Iran which is something that was never happening before unless you went and read the newspaper for the day and they were doing a report on Foreign Affairs so that's a little different and in in that way we are far more informed than we were in the past but with that comes a susceptibility to false information and that susceptibility is probably higher than ever because everybody has a voice now on the internet and everybody has a voice on social media and is able to give their opinion or their first hand account now is that the same as what what he says like baby boomers are getting from mainstream media in a way yeah mainstream media is pretty much Towing the line of whatever agenda is supported by said Network so yeah yeah I think that um as concerning as false information is controlled information and I think that's across the generations a a problem and that's a problem when you have a centralized media apparatus that's curating what they want people to see but the same could be said of our time is like you know we're all worried about false information proliferating but is there an equal level of concern about curated controlled information and big Tech is just as capable of capable of that in our generation as uh a media apparatus was in Prior Generations when it was all centralized under a few net cable network channels or whatever right so we're just as susceptible to propaganda which is like which side do we want to err on we want to err on people who may be propagating false information having the freedom to do so or would you want to err on to too much control over information from a centralized Authority yeah and I think that's kind of the debate we're seeing right now in the Twitter Elon Musk uh the battlefield and you know on the Elon musk's and the free speech absolutists of the world would say hey I'd rather bet on smart or people to investigate facts for themselves and have the ability to do so right than entities that are in the abstract controlling information and saying who's allowed to see what information it's like now I'm gonna go ahead and let myself parse through all this and come to my own conclusions then control what you're even able to ask about or you've been able to see right it's exactly what's happening now it's just like it's so different than what we got with mainstream media and yeah that's exactly what's happening with Twitter they're so scared of everybody being able to have a voice in the conversation that they're gonna pin it on oh false information and misinformation that's what we're scared of but really they're scared of not being able to control the narrative anymore in my opinion just believing what other people tell them yeah so I completely agree with you guys but I also wanted to add that as a generation we don't have good examples of politicians and how they disagree she's right when my parents were younger they used to watch the politicians in the Senate and the house have like great Lively debates and come to a conclusion in the end and you would see how they were speaking and how they bounced off each other's opinions and now that we don't have that example anymore we're forced to get our information from social media and a lot of the news channels these days are heavily biased and because of that I feel like as a generation we're heavily misinformed my dad ooh she's so right and she's on the moderate side as it says here Sandia or Sandy clearly that's true I mean political discourse is just wrought with disarray and just disgusting rhetoric I I know you guys watched the presidential debates between Trump and Hillary and then Trump and Biden and they were just horrendous horrendous and to think that people in other countries might have tuned into that and watched those debates happening and thought that's a representation of American politics which it is in today's stand time but to even know that people are watching that and truly seeing what we're dealing with here is just makes my blood boil a little bit yeah it's not a very reflection of the state of American politics or just the state of how we handle public discourse but right that's that is kind of where we are which is sad and so I guess you know kudos to this girl for even pointing that out right I was watching so I would watch those presidential debates and these are grown ass people we're talking in their 80s now 70s and 80s discussing political issues with each other and then I was watching 15 year old gen Z people being invited on shows like Jubilee and having just normal back and forth and normal discourse you have 15 16 17 year olds having better conversations than our politicians are having on debate stages which is why Sam I think the camera's still on me no worries no worries um and it's no wonder that young people are growing up now and they're feeling so over both political parties they're feeling over the entire system of politics that we're living in right now because they're engaging in better really more good faith conversations than adults are engaging in yeah at least there's an appetite for that yeah you know I think that part you know we criticize gen Z as like not caring about anything kind of having this nihilistic attitude but I think a lot of that comes from like look what look what we're handing them look what look at the options that we're giving look what we've modeled for them as like yeah this is politics this is what this is what we want you to get excited about and engage in it's like I don't right I don't want that I don't you know y'all do whatever you want I'm just gonna focus on my life and do my thing because that is not cool exactly and let's continue and I spoke to each other a lot about politics and since I was a liberal at that time and he was a conservative we would have a lot of debates I would find myself growing and becoming more moderate just because the things he said and things I listened to and the things I researched because of points that he made to me I would find myself transitioning into more of a moderate let's skip it and move on I disagreed because in 2022 truth is becoming less and less objective and more and more subjective and there will always be objective truth but Humanity will stray further and further from that especially when a lie can be attached to an emotion you see we are thinking less and less critically and more and more emotionally as a whole and so when you see something like for instance George Floyd May of 2020 that just strikes your heart first thing you want to do go to Instagram post a black Square now what is that doing I don't quite know but what it made you feel was like you did something to help that poor fellow who got a terrible thing that happened to him when I was here it sounded like he agreed with the prompt by the answer that he just gave he said our generation is overcome with emotions and we see things like George Floyd and we immediately go and post to Black square and the The Prompt is our generation is misinformed so it seems like he agrees with that to me I would love to hear a little bit more of his answer yeah that didn't feel right exactly yeah you always get uh the it's you get more insight from listening to the actual conversation than people's answers but it's interesting to see like how people interpreted the initial prompt and where they land but right the meat is definitely and wouldn't actually speaks right during this question I was thinking like is the majority of like my generation aka the people I know misinformed and I would definitely say yeah I feel like the lack of information is like almost as bad as like receiving no the wrong information I want to catch up on something you said I think it is true that social media did change the way we receive I remember him from another video yeah yeah Nathan misinformation or the truth but that doesn't make us misinformed because of that obviously like yes you have social media it's so much easier to get information but I don't think because we have social media that automatically makes you misinformed sure it's so intense [Music]