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Yes, Gen Z, Helen Keller Was a Real Person
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There is an idea that has gained a lot of momentum with young people. Social media platforms like TikTok have given it an environment where it has been able to spread and thrive.
It is the ludicrous idea that the late great Helen Keller never really existed. A now-deleted, but archived post on Medium by Isabella Lahoue from last May that has been making the rounds on Twitter explains the phenomenon well.
In the piece, Lahoue tells us why she and so many others from her generation have embraced Helen Keller denialism. Her article is really about how the internet has made her generation care more about searching for truth than previous generations (I’ll let you evaluate her argument yourself), but she uses Helen Keller as a case study.
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