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Thanks to the current media frenzy and barrage of lawsuits surrounding violent video games, I can't tell people what I do for a living without getting a lecture on the current plague of youth violence and the scourge that is Grand Theft Auto.

An article focused on the positive aspects of Gen Y.

I recently just read this article and I liked how the writer had supporting details to back up her argument.

The writer is generalizing. If she wants to argue that Generation Y is not lazy she must do more than present a few exceptionally successful individuals as examples (how many Gen-Y'ers are multi-billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg?). She provides no data on the general demographics of Gen-Y'ers to support her case.

A more positive spin on Gen Y

This opinion post looks like a lengthy 'tu quoque' to me. Rather than present data showing how Generation Y is not lazy and entitled, he shifts the blame to previous generations for bringing us up this way. Then he points to their problems (hippie-culture and drug use) in order to label their criticism of Gen Y "hypocritical". Finally he blames capitalism for teaching us to feel entitled and self-centered. Overall, he's not so much making a counter-argument to the claim that Gen Y'ers are lazy, as he is agreeing with it whilst pointing his finger at the older generations and saying they were just as bad.

Jonathan- sorry for replying a lot later. I actually used this article for Project 1 and noted that he used the tu quoque. I agree that he's while he's trying to make some legitimate argument, he never made any sort of statement that made me want to agree with him. Rather, he just keeps complaining about the older generations perception of Gen Y with nothing to back him up.

I liked his dry humor and the fact that he isn't GenY, but points out all the flaws in research conducted against GenY-ers.