I'll take your word for it as I have no knowledge of it. I certainly wouldn't find it surprising.
And I'm just trying to address the main idea in general, of increased intolerance among younger people. I do so, because I find it an interesting proposal and I'm just trying to work through the hypothesis and see what evidence I can find to support or refute it.
In general I think younger people have been far more open to different lifestyles than my generation was at the same point in life. That's sort of a baseline, a rising tide lifts all boats type observation.
But at the same time, I can see narrow bands of idealistic intransigence, focused beliefs that can vary widely from group to group. I think the internet and social media have allowed people with narrow like-minded views, to find one another, and reinforce one another. This is true of all age groups but seems especially focused in the younger generation because at the same time, their baseline society has moved away from the 4 TV channels or even the 43 TV channels that cable brought to us as young people, and moved into the world of highly diverse streaming content providers, youtube, tiktok, insta, and all of the other places younger generations consume their media, which has fractured what used to be a more monolithic set of cultural norms.
Yeah this for sure.