Kangana Ranaut recently posted a video on social media that touches on technology, digital culture, and how political and online experiences shape different generations. Responding to the discussion, she picked up on a comment about millennials’ intelligence and added her own perspective, drawing a comparison with Gen Z. The clip is from the latest episode of ‘The Exchange’, where social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and Oli Dugmore discuss the social media ban.
Kangana Ranaut’s playful take on millennials
The actress shared the video to her Instagram stories, tagging along a playful remark of her own. She wrote, “Even though Gen Z is the flavour of the season, but according to surveys, millennials remain the most intelligent generation ever. Ahem ahem, the host was like ‘keep going’.” The post suggested she was on board with the point about millennials, while cheekily poking fun at the generational face-off.
Kangana Ranaut references Haidt’s remarks on politics
During the discussion, Haidt touched on how the political climate a person experiences in their younger years can shape their perspective for good. He said, “However the political world looked to you between the age of about 16 to 24, that stays with you for life.” He went on to talk about millennials, calling them a fascinating generation and noting that they were the last cohort to come of age before the internet and social media reshaped the way young people experience the world.He further claimed that millennials belonged to an era marked by steadily climbing intelligence levels. “Your generation is the most intelligent in history,” he said, noting that intelligence had continued to rise up until the millennial generation.
Kangana Ranaut had earlier clarified Gen Z remark
Last month, Kangana Ranaut, who is also a sitting politician, had clarified an earlier comment she made about Gen Z during the student protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. Sharing a video of a Congress leader’s remarks, she said her original statement had been taken out of context. She said, “A Congress leader said that I have called the youth of the whole country as gutter cchaaps. The youth of the whole country, if you only talk about Gen Z then their population is going to be around 30-35 crores, and the Jantar Mantar, there were only about 10,000 people gathered there, out of which more than half were people like Shabana Azmi, you saw all types of age groups were roaming.““If we talk about the youth, we specifically talk about Gen Z. There were about 2,000 Gen Z there, so how are these people calling this a Gen Z protest? Like the Gen Z of the whole country are calling this a protest. I specifically talked about the generation that was gathered here. I am giving you an open challenge, tell me a specific quote of mine, in which I have included the whole generation. Don’t run this useless agenda against me. I cannot be a youth opponent, because I am a youth myself, and not a 55-60 year old youth like Rahul Gandhi,” added Kangana.
Kangana Ranaut’s earlier ‘Generation Gutter’ remark
For the unversed, Kangana had recently drawn attention for her comments on Gen Z in connection with the student protests at Jantar Mantar. In her remarks, she labelled some of the young protesters and women as “Generation Gutter,” alleging that they were influenced by Western ideologies.
