Danny Cuneo is a senior television, radio, and film major at Syracuse University — and he has had it with millennials. In an open letter published Dec. 8 for the Daily Orange, the school’s independent newspaper, he starts off with “Hey you! Yeah, you in the plaid watching Hulu on your iPad 6, take the Beats By Dre out of your dumb face and listen to me.”
The calling out only gets more intense from there.
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Cunneo writes about millennials “ruining this country” and says “it’s your fault” that “whatever integrity this country had was lost because of you.”
After Cunneo jokes that “we might as well vote for a socialist to lead this country” and then notes “oh right, you guys are backing Bernie Sanders.”
It’s not just politics Cunneo has his gripe with. He calls millennials “so lazy with your stupid technology.” One particularly amusing paragraph rants:
The social media attack is furthered with Cunneo writing to “stop putting every one of your problems in your precious little hashtags.” He also hints at the oversensitivity at schools, with how “every thing someone says has to be reported to the principal. Guess what guys? No one cares. Keep it to yourself.”
Millennials are criticized for not “respecting your elders,” with a political spin put on it, as “it doesn’t matter if what we think is ‘old-fashioned’ or ‘not progressive.'”
Cunneo concludes with the hope that “maybe I’ve saved the day” and his urgency to “go find that clip about why America isn’t the greatest from The Newsroom to post on my Facebook.”
The letter is signed by “Everyone Older Than You.”
One comment referencing Saturday Night Live’s drunk uncle reads “Drunk uncle… I can’t believe I’m saying this… But I think you might be too drunk.”
