Hi, I am from a country also undergoing protests right now, but a person very close to me is visiting the US. They joined the No Kings protest yesterday in NYC. And they told me there was no young people at all. The contrast with my country is kind of weird, young people mobilise all the time.

I’m ofc not pretending that yesterday’s NYC protest is an accurate characterisation of mobilisation in the entire country. But from photos I see it does seem a trend that the no kings mainly has middle aged and older people in it. I’m curious. Why?

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    24 days ago

    i see young people , most are still going through schooling, and people that graduated literally have no jobs, and because of layoffs they are constant stressed thinking about finding a career, or lack of, and htier own friend and families constantly pressuring them(if you look at posts on many a platform about this from a search online you will see most of it happen within 3-6 years, these people arnt protesting). you literally have to have free time on your hands to protest,

    Also the apathetic people too, YOUTUBE, meta, amazon, streaming servies is enough of distraction for them or they dont see this problem is affecting them, so they dont care.