Sir, – Further to Brian Boyd's "We have no right to mock Generation Snowflake" (Opinion & Analysis, July 20th), does your writer seriously believe that the polyglots from the tech support and accounting departments of Dublin's Silicon Docks that I see zipping around on children's scooters en route to their bottles of prosecco and €20 hotdogs could even find the local community of "Raytown" on Google Maps?
Concern for people, my arse! – Yours, etc,
ULTAN Ó BROIN,
Berlin.
Sir, – Brian Boyd is wrong about Generation Snowflake. The millennial generation’s only concern with people is with people like themselves. They are a self-obsessed, narcissistic and ageist crowd.
Looking at the UK, it is obvious that members of Generation Snowflake do not include the ballot box as a “safe” place to go, and the result of their staying away in droves from voting in the recent Brexit referendum has ruined the future of many older voters. But hey! Maybe they can fix it with a hashtag. – Yours, etc,
JUDITH GOLDBERGER,
Donnybrook,
Dublin 4.
Sir, – Brian Boyd appears to believe that the members of “Generation Snowflake” are worth valuing because they “believe that people really do matter”.
They certainly believe people matter if they belong to a category in their hierarchy of victimhood. And people also matter if they concur with their narrow and uncontradicted world view.
The problem is that any people who dare to contradict this narrative automatically do not count as people. Furthermore, they openly, and not infrequently violently, try to prevent such people exercising their right to free speech and the right of others to listen. – Yours, etc,
C LYNCH,
Castletroy,
Limerick.