Joe Scarborough Criticizes Millennials, Twitter Talks Back

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Monday today's generation of youth plays too many video games — and then received thousands of responses mocking his comment.

The host of "Morning Joe" first posted a tweet that referenced a story about millennials' dependence of technology. He followed that with a comment praising the World War II generation and criticizing the younger one.

Our smartphone culture impacts young men in the most profound way. It is often younger women who suffer the most. https://t.co/cagBUD9rUE

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) August 7, 2017

Young men in the 1940s liberated Europe from Nazism and the Pacific from the Japanese Empire. Today, too many stay home playing video games. https://t.co/e7FTe0O20P

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) August 7, 2017

Here is a sampling of the responses Scarborough's tweets yielded:

this is just an angry, old cynical man detached from reality tweet. At no point should we encourage that people would be better off in war.

— Ryan Wyatt (@Fwiz) August 7, 2017

We get it: you saw DUNKIRK. Now can you stop wishing war on an entire generation because you don't get Pokêmon GO, you toddler?

— Ben Philippe (@gohomeben) August 7, 2017

I went to college, spent 10 years in gaming, then founded two successful companies. You can game AND be a productive and patriotic citizen.

— Colin Moriarty (@notaxation) August 7, 2017

a man who worships war as a necessary character builder is by far a worse threat to humanity than "super mario kart."

— javi grillo-marxuach (@OKBJGM) August 7, 2017

Some of these gamer boys are really smart and kind people. I'm so tired of the old people bashing millennials.

— alexandra halaby (@iskandrah) August 7, 2017

Scarborough weighed in several times as the responses flowed in, but he tried to close the discussion with this tweet:

The stupidity of these responses suggest an ignorance of current trends and the need to get out in the sun...which I am going to do now.😀 https://t.co/ohluLxirwS

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) August 7, 2017

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