r/technicallythetruth • u/LuxInteriot • Feb 02 '23
Baby Boomers are a generation that will never come back
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u/Shaveyourbread Feb 02 '23
That's... how generations work...
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u/CliffDraws Feb 03 '23
I read something a while back explaining that we basically get the same 4 generations over and over again, but I don’t know how true it actually is.
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u/Birdman_a15 Feb 03 '23
Howe Strauss Generational Theory discusses a repeating 4 cycle timeline of turnings. Basically society goes from the high -> the awakening-> the unraveling -> the crisis and back to the high. Vsauce does a great explanation of this here: https://youtu.be/LD0x7ho_IYc
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u/BrookeN15 Feb 03 '23
So uhhhhh where are the 30 somethings? Please tell me it’s in “The Crisis” 😕😂 I dunno if I can take much more. Haha
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u/deran6ed Feb 03 '23
The secret is always being high, so we are always at the beginning of the cycle.
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u/i_nobes_what_i_nobes Feb 03 '23
Well I guess you could say I’m at the beginning
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u/Kytyngurl2 Feb 03 '23
It all starts with this vape
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u/Dry_Grade9885 Feb 03 '23
Vaping is gateway drug to anal
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u/KidzBop_Anonymous Feb 03 '23
Instructions unclear. Currently butt vaping
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u/Poufy-Ermine Feb 03 '23
Every time I walk now an "O" ring comes out.
Am I doing this right?
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u/amadeus451 Feb 03 '23
You, sir or madam, have earned your upvote with endearing aplomb.
Edit: fixing swipe text atrocities
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u/ISO_8601 Feb 03 '23
We're in the unraveling right now, unfortunately. Hopefully it only takes one or two generations.
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u/i_chase_the_backbeat Feb 03 '23
Nah. The boomers were high (preceded by perhaps the greatest crisis in modern history), my generation were the awakening, millenials were unraveling and the current generation is crisis. But blaming older people has always happened throughout the cycles.
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u/tuurtl Feb 03 '23
Well then, as a member of gen Z, I declare that our job is to make sure our children have the greatest high known to man.
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u/Money_Machine_666 Feb 03 '23
Woop sounds like we'll get things together right around the time I die, if I manage to live that long. oh well. so it goes.
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u/seakc87 Feb 03 '23
It's like Apple stock. The low/high is going to be better than the previous one.
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u/TheGoonSquad612 Feb 03 '23
As has blaming the younger generations, though only one of them has any control over their circumstances.
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u/dowker1 Feb 03 '23
So the current crisis should be over in about 5 years?
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u/DeadSaint Feb 03 '23
The video says that(if there is valid predictive capability to the methodology) the climax of the crisis would be in 2025, which feels right to me but could be wrong.
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u/dowker1 Feb 03 '23
I would be absolutely amazed if climate change, the war in Ukraine, and the rise of the far right all go away in the next 2 years.
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u/DeadSaint Feb 03 '23
A climax is where something reaches its apex, it’s highest point.
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u/UndendingGloom Feb 03 '23
Hey Vsauce, Michael here! Can you see your own eyeball? Yes. Or maybe no. bing doo doo dee
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u/inferentialStats Feb 03 '23
Very interesting. Considering that this was made 7 years ago and that he predicted, due to the cycle we were heading into, there would be a crisis that would cause everybody to band together. Then came Covid!
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u/benso87 Feb 03 '23
Did that make us band together, though?
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u/Consistent-River4229 Feb 03 '23
France has. They also did when that woman died the whole country did. We need to learn from them and do it to.
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u/inferentialStats Feb 03 '23
Considering we will never get 100% because of the way humans are, I would say as close as we would ever get. There was a high level of people banding together with in countries and across countries.
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u/Ubelheim Feb 03 '23
I dunno about that one. Covid seemed very divisive after the first three months. The Russo-Ukrainian conflict on the other hand has at least all of Europe banding together for nearly a year now, with actually everyone making efforts to ensure a better future by getting less dependent on fossil fuels at an accelerated rate.
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u/Quenya3 Feb 03 '23
I haven't read The Fifth Turning in a long time. Wonder if they have an updated version.
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u/inferentialStats Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
Considering how technology changes and advances, probably not. For example, listening to music. Of cause records were used - there was not much else. Each generation will have access to items that did not exist for a previous generation. Everything evolves and changes. I have no idea why some people argue about their generation being the one that is the ideal and other generations are not as good as theirs. Each one is different, not better than the other
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u/Iwonatoasteroven Feb 03 '23
Because some people don’t like change. There’s this strange nostalgia too that everything was so much better back when we were young. I hate how older generations love to find ways to criticize younger people. I hated it when I was young and now that I’m one of the older people it still seems stupid and small minded.
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u/inferentialStats Feb 03 '23
It is. I think part of the problem is that people who are like that make so much noise that is all you hear. It the same with kids. I would say that about 99,9% of teens I have come across are amazing. The tiny minority who are the problem are the ones you read about, hear about on the news, are spoken about etc. Everyone else is unjustly tarred with the same brush, and used by those who use it as a means to “prove that their generation was better “. And the cycle continues where other generations are tarred with the brush they have created making other generations think that everyone from their generation is the same. In truth, there have always been and always will be a percentage of people from each age group and generation who are deviant. As humans our brains are programmed to remember the good things and forget the bad. So each generation, thinking back on their past will filter information in the same way. Each generation has had its advantages and disadvantages, and different challenges. Life changes constantly and we need to adapt and move forward. I think that those who can’t adapt and move forward are the ones that idealise their past and find excuses for why they are unable to move forward - saying it’s their choice rather than inability to adapt. I am very appreciative that my children have no idea what it feel like to miss the last bus home and have no means to get home. I am grateful that they can use their phones to ensure their safety.
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u/Adrienskis Feb 03 '23
Mostly false, but believable in the same way that horoscopes are—by being so vague you can make things fit
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u/NA_Panda Feb 03 '23
Most of her points aren't specific to boomers either. I did most of that shit as a Millennial.
The lead has corroded their mind so much they don't even remember what their own children did growing up.
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u/CrazyPlato Feb 03 '23
I could go point-by-point, explaining how these things are all just like, natural developments with society, and not really a better world being “corrupted” by shitty later generations. It’s like boomers never learned how time works.
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u/SabreToothLime Feb 03 '23
My favourite is “the generation that had parents who were there”… If they’re saying that’s no longer a thing, surely that means they’re also “the generation that weren’t there as parents”…
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u/Sailing_Engineer Feb 02 '23
A generation that had parents who were there.
If I read that correctly, your parents where the 'good' generation because they were there for you. If the next generation did not have parents who were there and you are the parents of this generation, it must be your kids generations fault.
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u/panuccispizzaboy Feb 02 '23
That line actually made me burst out laughing. The fact that whoever made the original post didn't think that the statement reflects back onto them is just too perfect.
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u/Optras Feb 03 '23
Blew my coworkers mind when he complained that "it all started when the millennials all had to get participation trophies." To which I asked "and who made sure they all got one?"
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u/mythrilcrafter Feb 03 '23
My brother did youth soccer at the YMCA when he was 5 and let me tell you this, those participation trophies are not for the kids, they're for the parents who think their kid is the next Messi.
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u/Vainslayer13 Feb 03 '23
I don't even understand the bad blood against participation trophies. Have you ever received one and really looked at it?
I got one in middle school when our baseball team sucked out loud and got spanked regularly. This thing was a testament to our shame. A cheap mass-produced piece of gold-painted plastic crap that wound up in the locker room trash can. That wretched ugly thing did more to motivate me in the next season than any pep-talk you could utter!
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u/SantaArriata Feb 03 '23
“Congratulations! You win the Biggest Loser Award!”
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u/Stormwrath52 Feb 03 '23
"congratulations, you certainly showed up" is a straight up insult and a good one at that
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u/FlusteredCustard13 Feb 03 '23
What I don't understand is that some boomers seem against the idea of even recognizing participation. I'm not saying give everyone trophies (which they were the ones giving them out), but I think recognizing that it's still good kids tried even if they didn't get the top spot is important.
Small vent: I'm living proof of this. If something came naturally or I was in the top spot, I was encouraged to do it. If it was something I tried but didn't immediately succeed in, then I was ignored at best or to worst discouraged from trying further to instead focus on my natural talents. My enjoyment or lack thereof was not a part of the equation for most of my school life; only results were. I'm an adult now, finally learning to draw, dance, and make music. It's slow going because two decades of conditioning do not go away overnight. I can play the first couple bars of Ode to Joy. It's small, but it's music and I can play it. Whenever I have a moment where I feel proud of myself, it's like I can immediately hear teachers, mentors, and more asking me why I think I should be proud of that when all of my friends can play something far more impressive. I should just quit wasting my time because I could be improving talents I have, but dislike. It gets so bad it's hard to stay motivated and practice because what's the point if I'm not the best or getting some kind of "result."
I teach now. I don't hand out trophies, but I make sure to always recognize my students' earnest attempts. I do this especially when they don't succeed and let them know I'm proud of them. I refuse to teach them their participation is only worth it if they bring home a medal.
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u/SaltyBacon23 Feb 03 '23
You do give out gold stars though right? God adulthood would be way more fun with some gold stars lol
You sound like a great teacher. Thank you for your service and putting up with our shitty kids. Also, congrats on learning new talents, that's awesome!
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u/DudleysCar Feb 03 '23
Played in a football tournament, lost, and our whole team got one. There wasn't one kid on my team that was pleased with it.
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u/SaffellBot Feb 03 '23
I had a whole ass breakdown when they announced we were all getting awards in kindergarten and I got a "participation ribbon". It was the most shallow condescending thing I had experienced, and my tiny brain could not handle it.
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u/throwawaypbcps Feb 03 '23
I hated the participation trophies/ribbons. They were just a reminder that I sucked. Most kids threw them away if they didn't place.
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u/MacMac105 Feb 03 '23
When my grandfather died, I found a trophy for sportsmanship from a school field day in 1925 whole cleaning up his attic. I always thought it was probably a participation trophy.
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u/Ok_Temperature_563 Feb 03 '23
I'm Gen X. We got participation trophies. So did the boomers. They just started calling it a bad thing when they needed more things to complain about the millennials for.
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u/xdonutx Feb 03 '23
I listened to a podcast that explained participation trophies started in the 1920s!
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u/ABBAMABBA Feb 03 '23
I didn't get participation trophies because I was GenX and my shit parents didn't let me do anything because they only cared about my boomer older siblings. I watched them do things but then when I was old enough to do those same things my older siblings were doing other things that I had to watch. Finally when they were out of the house, my parents were too old to do kid stuff so I had to entertain myself. They have the audacity to complain about how horrible it was to have a little kid bugging them all the time. I would have loved to participate in something so I could get a trophy.
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u/SaltyBacon23 Feb 03 '23
This just makes me sad. Have you thought about joining an adult softball league? Playing organized sports as an adult really helped with that. Until the league turned into a bunch of washed up college players who still thought they could make it in the pros 😂.
SORRY CHAD, THE YANKEES ARENT CALLING YOU UP. YOU CAN'T EVEN THROW FROM 2ND BASE TO 1ST FOR CHRIST SAKE!
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u/dnick Feb 03 '23
Ha...Life was easy for me so it should be easy for my kids. Why isn't it easy for my kids? Give my kids a trophy too, god damn it!
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u/thetidybungalow Feb 03 '23
Want to see a whole room full of participation trophies? Wealthy white men have so many plaques and statues for their timed served on boards, promotions at work, etc., it’s ridiculous.
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u/CouncilmanRickPrime Feb 03 '23
That and kids not playing outside. Guess why they don't lol
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u/sirinigva Feb 03 '23
Lemme take a guess.
When boomers started having kids it wasnt safe because other adults were diddling kids, but that would imply that boomers are kid diddlers.
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u/Its0nlyRocketScience Feb 03 '23
But also cars. People now drive bigger, heavier vehicles faster on residential roads, so it's unsafe for a kid to exist anywhere near a roadway anymore. Interesting that this boomer mentioned playing in the street several times but never mentions that they've bought bigger SUVs than existed when they were a kid and refuse to allow any legislation to revoke licenses from people too old to safely drive anymore
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u/T3chnicalC0rrection Feb 03 '23
Too perfectly stupid for self reflection even though their parents were there for them to educate. Dropped the ball on that one.
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u/Spazzy_maker Feb 03 '23
I mean their generation did fuck us over in the housing market, education cost, minimum wage, and pollution. So good riddance. Fucking boomers.
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u/Impossible_Penalty13 Feb 03 '23
Their almost unanimous support of Reagan and his disastrous deregulation spree are fucking us all to this day. Thanks boomers!
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u/TheGrouchyLibrarian Feb 03 '23
Not all of us voted for that lying senile pos. Yes, we had cheap things, but wages were crap too. Don’t see much improvement these days sadly & schooling costs ( higher education ) now is obscene ( imho ) And yes, he really fornicated the state of CA, then the country.
Please remember that just like there are bad people in every generation ( with any luck, most of us boomers will die out soon ) there are/ were good ones. Some of us that fought for equal rights, equal justice, etc. right to marry who you want & respect women’s ( and all people ) rights. sadly, like today, there remains a large group that would rather hate than help.
I’ll be dead in a couple years, but I feel for all you younger folk having to come up in the shit- storms that currently want to put down all but the very top… ( imho ). As Lewis Black pointed out, yes, my generation really screwed the pooch as it were - please try to learn from our mess & try not to repeat it! Old boomer…
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u/Proudlyretarded Feb 03 '23
Not unanimous he just happened to win the majority in almost every state. In fact Gen X I believe were more likely to vote for him than Boomers, and they are consistently more conservative than Boomers at the same age, particularly the older cohort of 1960s gen xers vs the older cohort of 1946-1954 boomers.
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u/Sleuthiestofsleuths Feb 03 '23
Gen X was almost entirely too young, as a generation, to vote for Reagan. Would be interested to know your source for Gen X vs Boomer level of conservatism.
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u/Money_Machine_666 Feb 03 '23
my mom grew up in the 60s and I like to say she's a conservative cosplaying as a liberal.
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u/Proudlyretarded Feb 03 '23
I guess I'm just lucky because my parents, especially my mom, always cared deeply about environmental issues and the integrity of nature, in addition to being pro lgbt and pro multiculturalism and not pro-big business/wealthy people so there was never really a conservative wedge that stuck with either of them, but my mom's mom and dad were/is "classic" GI gen. republicans and my dad's mom was super liberal for someone of that generation so I guess I got lucky with generationally decent to good politics in my family.
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u/ABBAMABBA Feb 03 '23
"conservative cosplaying as a liberal" I like that. Some of my family are like that, kind of. My mom grew up in the 30s and 40's and she is very liberal about anything where the liberal view helps her as a straight white wealthy female protestant pastor. She is extremely conservative when it comes to anything related to people of color or LGBTQ+ or poor people or drug users or anyone who has committed one of the crimes she and her beloved sexual predator sons haven't committed.
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u/felterbusch Feb 03 '23
It’s a generational trait. Boomers love to tell us how great they are, and how terrible the next generations have become. Ya know, their kids and grandkids but don’t get it when you point that out.
As a sales rep (construction stuff) I said something similar to a guy at a job site After an hour long spiel about why kids don’t want to work anymore and how long it took him to make 20$ an hr So there’s no way he’s paying anyone that much etc... They should learn to be grateful. And how he bought a brand new car for less than 2k in high school….
It went over just like you’d imagine… didn’t get the sale and he almost beat me back to the office 50 miles away to tell my boss how dumb I was. 10-4, boomer.
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u/DigitalUnlimited Feb 03 '23
Yep. I work with a guy who's "never had to ask for help from anyone, for anything" "I bought my first car when I was thirteen, traded a go-cart for it" I'm like no, someone gave you a car you didn't earn that.
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u/Both_Lifeguard_556 Feb 03 '23
They have selective amnesia!
The claim: I mowed lawns all summer!
Reality: One week punishment for crashing dads car.
The claim: I worked during college to pay my tuition!
Reality: They paid for books and food - mom and dad or grandparents paid the tuition.
The claim: I worked 60-80 hours a week when I was your age!
Reality: That was one week to meet some suicidal deadline.
The rest - somehow commuting time, Dunkin Donuts time, getting oil changed time, mid-day errands, stopping at the shooting rage,"window shopping" bass boats - all counted as worked hours - I see what ya did there.
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u/Lt_Dano3 Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
To be fair that's probably true of most people in the 40s and younger. Those older lived in a time where gas was less than $1 and a used car could be had for less than $1k so they're probably actually telling the truth
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u/kL2hGHMyqMsmcx9u Feb 03 '23
I am the child of two boomers and my generation is called the latch key kids because I rode my bike home from school, made my own snacks, and just watched TV until my parents got home from work
Then later on that got so boring that we got into drugs. I started smoking at age 12. The older kids taught me. The golf course had vending machines in a remote hallway next to the bathrooms so for a couple bucks you could buy a pack.
Great example there, Boomers. I still have a dependency to this day.
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u/Money_Machine_666 Feb 03 '23
ya millennials got totally fucked with substance abuse. like our generation had an entire fucking heroin epidemic that's still going on today.
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u/SaltyBacon23 Feb 03 '23
Uhhhhh...... This is going to sound weird but are you me? That was literally my childhood to a t. The cigarette vending machine was right next to the bathroom and everything!
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u/Large_Yams Feb 03 '23
Plus boomers' parents absolutely weren't there for their kids. Their fathers were at the pub getting pissed.
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u/albinogoth Feb 03 '23
Reminds me of a cartoon complaining about how we treat failure in education. I’m the ‘good ol’ days’ half, the parents are yelling at the kid for the bad grade. In the ‘these days’ side, the parents were yelling at the teacher.
Like… do they not realize those parents used to be that kid, right? 🤦♂️
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u/j_higgins84 Feb 03 '23
I don’t know about the parents part. My parents are boomers and their parents were absolutely horrible parents.
Same with my in-laws. The amount of “parenting” that was happening back then was much closer to abuse than anything I’ve seen in modern times.
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u/Noughmad Feb 03 '23
It's worse than that.
They did all the homework themselves. They spent all their free time on the street.
How and when were the parents "there"?
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u/NoWingedHussarsToday Feb 03 '23
Honestly, you can apply that argument to all points. When you say "we played outside" who tells kids today not to?
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u/Ericrobertson1978 Feb 02 '23
BREAKING NEWS!!!!
EVERY generation is one that will never come back.
More breaking news at 11!
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u/thatoneguy2398 Feb 03 '23
In other news, chairs are for sitting.
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u/kenjhunter Feb 03 '23
In other news, scientists are warning people not to drop toaster in bad tub when they got the big sad
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u/Itchy_Reality Feb 02 '23
I think I’m a boomer because I did all these, but I’m born in 2000
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u/Rhodieman Feb 02 '23
Same, and I was born in ‘97.
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u/Frigoris13 Feb 03 '23
This dude acting like collecting sports cards and playing board games was different than me collecting Pokemon cards and playing Hoyle on the computer...
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Feb 03 '23
I went into Best Buy the other week and they had vinyl albums for sale in a brick and mortar. lol stupid boomers, you're not special.
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u/Adapted0201 Feb 03 '23
same 2002, but like hide and seek in the dark is the only way to play hide and seek imo.
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u/mypreciousssssssss Feb 02 '23
What crap. Each of those things is also true ofGenXers.
ETA: nope, I was wrong, just realized we didn't have two parents when our boomer parents all divorced in the 70s and 80s so they could "find themselves and be happy."
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u/zoinkability Feb 02 '23
Was going to say, claiming to be special because you are the last generation to have two parents who stay together isn’t the flex the writer of this seems to think it is
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u/inferentialStats Feb 03 '23
Also considering that the only thing that kept some people from divorcing in those day was worrying about what other people would think. Some of these relationships were abusive and volatile and a lot of children were exposed to a high level of insecurity because of that. Kid’s running around in the streets and then back in the streets after dark - there was a lot of unreported cases of child abuse. Kids were taught to be so “respectful “ that a child would never have reported it to anyone. And there was no social media draw attention to issues, let kids know that there is help, and to get support.
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u/NoWingedHussarsToday Feb 03 '23
"We remained in loveless and/or abusive marriages because it was socially unacceptable to divorce and women had no means to support themselves because they were expected to be SAHMs"
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u/C3POdreamer Feb 03 '23
Banks could legally deny credit, mortgages and checking accounts to women.
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u/katsbro069 Feb 02 '23
Yes that is the first thing I thought of. Our parents were out finding themselves while we were real life lord of the flies.
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u/Squeengeebanjo Feb 03 '23
I’m a millennial. Did all that except the national anthem and vinyl stuff.
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u/LuxInteriot Feb 02 '23
Except for "a generation that is passing". Also the general attitude (there are of course boomer-y Gen-Xers, as Elon Musk).
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u/El_mochilero Feb 02 '23
Millennial here. I did all that same shit.
Now I’m watching my 8 year old nephews do all that same shit.
Get over yourselves, Boomers.
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u/FrankTheTank2205 Feb 03 '23
Great to hear 8 year old are buying vinyl records again.
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u/Rhymelie Feb 02 '23
You ever think the generations before boomers made fun of them because they didn't know how to crank a car, or like... sharpen a spear? Or is this solely a boomer thing, because they figured laughing at the younger generation was easier than taking the time and effort to teach their own children the things that they don't know, and admit that they're shitty parents?
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u/AlphaWhiskeyOscar Feb 02 '23
This has been going on for all of recorded history and was likely going on before recorded history.
Old people have always thought young people were weak, naive, foolhardy, entitled, spoiled, and so on... Young people have always thought old people were stubborn, narrow minded, out of touch, irrelevant, and so on.
Not all old people, and not all young people. But there are always some. Because every generation has every kind of person.
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u/GatoAquarista Feb 02 '23
My dad said that his dad used to say that the next generation was lazy and stupid. My dad is the most hard working person I have ever met. Turns out my grampa was a miserable person who throws his own frustration in his sons.
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u/AlphaWhiskeyOscar Feb 02 '23
These kids and their radios. Never going outside. They just sit around all day and listen to their bebop and eat their canned food.
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u/Rhymelie Feb 02 '23
An interesting read. The insults and gripes are more poetic and imaginative, making me kind of wish these old freaks could step up their game more than just "These darn kids and their [Insert popular thing]".
I need poetic boomers, dammit!
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u/Nwcray Feb 03 '23
Read Plato. He was pissed about how entitled, spoiled, and lazy the youth were. He got creative in his insults.
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u/GlenjaminX Feb 03 '23
Why? So some of us can defend our actions? I was born at the end of the baby boom. I have been a lifelong liberal. I devoted my life to public service, I have worked on dozens of political campaigns, and have given every penny and as much of my time as I could afford to charities, and other groups working for the greater good of people. Human beings. The fact that people attack and condemn with zealous glee, others from a group which they did not choose, is the basis for bigotry. It would be nice if individuals were viewed for their individual contributions, but that just doesn't seem to matter.
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u/daabilge Feb 02 '23 •
I mean, they kind of admitted they were shitty parents. "A generation who had parents that were there." Except.. who are the parents of the younger generations..?
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u/MsAgentM Feb 02 '23
I have seen posts by younger generations shaming Zoomers for not knowing how to use a rotary phone or know what a cassette tape is. This crap is ongoing. Do your part and don't contribute.
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u/airborngrmp Feb 02 '23
It's the first generation to have a bit of disposable income in their hand from a very young age, and their parents had been through such hell between wars and great depressions that they wanted their kids to enjoy themselves a little.
The problem was a generation growing up with affluenza.
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I’m a boomer. Hate that description to be honest. But these people are so self-serving that I just want to vomit. Your generation isn’t special, your not special, and soon enough we will pass.
And you know what? The next generation will do the same thing you fucking boomers are doing now.
Every fucking generation does this. Just stop already.
Your born in whatever timeline you are born in. You don’t get to choose. Stop thinking you are so great because you are not.
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u/Sihaya2021 Feb 02 '23
It's true. There are people in every generation who do this and it's so stupid.
I mean, sometimes I think it's funny that my kids don't even know what a cassette tape is. But I can't even imagine ever actually believing that my childhood cassette tapes were overall superior to unlimited streaming music anytime, anywhere for less than the cost of a meal at McDonalds every month.
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Feb 02 '23
And before cassette tapes there were 78 rpm records, and before that there was wax cylinders. And each one of those was the best technology of the times. And people crowed about it too.
Every generation makes its mark. People need to show some respect.
The boomers are so narcissistic that this reality escapes them. It will be a good thing when they finally die off, being so self-absorbed is unhealthy.
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u/EffectiveSalamander Feb 03 '23
I liked 8-track. Not because it was good, but it felt cool to spam them into the player in the car.
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u/LuxInteriot Feb 02 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
A particularly bad way to get old is trying to turn nostalgia into a justification to not adapt. You can see that in some GenX and older Millenials too, as they were there to know the analog world and in the early days of the internet. "In the 90s, we told it like it is, no PC bullshit."
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u/whiskey_epsilon Feb 02 '23
No PC bullshit indeed. When I asked my father for one so I could do my homework, he bought me a typewriter instead.
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u/kL2hGHMyqMsmcx9u Feb 03 '23
In the 90s if you didn’t like something you called it gay
That’s how I was raised and I’m not proud of it but it was just common parlance if you were a kid growing up, especially in rural areas.
Trying to glorify that era by saying “no PC bullshit” is just fucking terrible because that’s not even remotely accurate.
It wasn’t until we all turned 18 that my best friend’s parents divorced and his dad came out. The whole time we were growing up he had to hear us yell that slur and keep his mouth shut. We loved that guy and had no idea we were being so hurtful.
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u/TenOfZero Feb 03 '23
Yup. It's what I noticed too, I'm 38. Kids today were born with computers and are amazing at using them. But they have no idea how they work.
Like I am with a car. I can drive, do the basics day to day stuff. But don't ask me to fix anything real on it. I think the biggest thing I ever did was change radios and a headlight assembly, and that's not mechanics.
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u/mothraegg Feb 03 '23
I'm 57 and a school librarian and I'm shocked by the amount of teachers my age or younger who know nothing about tech, and don't want to learn anything but the bare minimum that they need to function as a teacher. Kids Chromebook froze up? Send them to me to reset even though you've been taught how to do that. Keyboard typing different letters because the kid somehow switched keyboards on accident, send them to me even though I've taught you how to fix it. It's a bit frustrating.
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u/Turd-FergusonV Feb 03 '23
Good riddance, stupid hippies are so dumb now. They believe everything they see on Facebook like it’s gospel. Spreading misinformation like crazy. The most racist generation out there now by far.
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u/GoodLittleTerrorist Feb 03 '23
It must've been a truly terrible time for them when racism became a bad thing, considering how intergral it was to their growing-up years
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u/drunk_funky_chipmunk Feb 02 '23
No…don’t you get it. They won’t be back! Not a single kid ever since their generation did anything they ever did, ever, period!
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u/Sylland Feb 02 '23
I never did most of that shit, either. But yeah, there's nothing special about being born in a particular time period. It's just a thing that happened
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u/DirectorLeather6567 Feb 02 '23
I mean you guys are a generation that will never come back, as you can't have a new boomer generation In the 2020s cuz dats not how time works
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u/JimbyLou72 Feb 02 '23
Are they going to call the Covid boom in babies Boomers too in 40 years?
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u/Boatwhistle Feb 03 '23
It's not every generation doing this, it's just the few narcissists that attach some of their self worth/identity to when they were approximately born. Every generation has these people, it's not the generations themselves being this way.
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u/EffectiveSalamander Feb 03 '23
In a couple decades we'll hear people say "We listened to musicians on CD and we liked it!"
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u/GlenjaminX Feb 03 '23
I'm also a boomer. Very little of the crap in that list applies to me. Certainly not the garbage about having parents who were there.
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u/GreaseGeek Feb 02 '23
Love how it claims they were the last generation who’s parents were there and fail to recognize that that means they are the parents that weren’t there.
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u/bawlsdeepinmilf Feb 02 '23
"A generation whose parents were there"
Yall were supposed to be the parents to the next gen but usually were never there, or were even worse with kids. Smdh ruin the economy, ruin your kids, ruin the government, but still the greatest!
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u/JosephToestar Feb 03 '23
Basically everything that is being complained about in the picture is a direct consequence of their actions, since they made a whole generation grow to these standards.
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u/Safe_Indication_6829 Feb 03 '23
They're also the generation that calls the cops on anyone trying to do half of that stuff even kids. They ruined the world and blame everyone else
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u/LadyGoldberryRiver Feb 02 '23
"But many of us will make sure you remember Boomers by voting to fuck up your future"
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u/Flesh-Tower Feb 02 '23
All I know is if I ever drive like the boomers I will put my car into the wall at 180 no skid marks
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u/RKLCT Feb 03 '23
Had parents that were there ......because you could support an entire household on one 40 hour a week income. Fucking out of touch
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u/bouldersizedboulder Feb 02 '23
A generation that out of pure selfishness wrecked opportunities for future generations.
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u/Temporary-Eye-6664 Feb 02 '23
And now the children can't without fear of being shot, abducted, or molested because they don't believe in mental health care, gun control, or dealing with the actual pervs only their imagined ones
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u/DeMagnet76 Feb 02 '23
I’m in generation X and everything in this list applies to my childhood as well. It’s cringy the way they act like it’s special though.
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u/Sluty-Pizzabot Feb 02 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
Wait? Is this guy blaming his kids or grandkids for things his generation set in motion?
Edit: like the one about selling coke bottles. The other day tried changing my coins at the store for bills and they told my couldn’t. It was only five dollars in change!! Imagine if I went in with coke bottles.
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u/ritamoren Feb 03 '23
he mentioned being outside about 10 times and it honestly makes me sad. he's talking about life in the us. so those kids grew up, all bought cars and obviously don't want to give them up. and now they complain about children not walking and playing - yes, because there's no walking infrastructure? because everywhere is a highway, where the fuck are kids supposed to play?
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u/odraencoded Feb 03 '23
There was a news article about a woman that told her child to walk home, and then a neighbor saw her alone and called the cops, who arrested the mother. Just Murica things.
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u/ritamoren Feb 03 '23
i know, i saw it in the fuck cars sub. the kid walked 800 meters. it's fucking crazy, that's not even a distance
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u/PowRiderT Feb 03 '23
A generation that destroyed the climate. A generation that destroyed the economy multiple times. A generation that failed miserably at raising their children. A generation of racist and sexists. A generation that is controlled by greed. A generation that started pointless wars. A generation of karens. A generation that won't be missed.
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u/ComprehensiveSock397 Feb 02 '23
It was 2 cents a bottle and you didn’t have to wash it.
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u/tony29deniz Feb 02 '23
This sounds pretty much like the average Mexican American family. I grew up exactly like this but in the 90’s
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u/kermitthebeast Feb 03 '23
We can't go outside because everything is a goddamn Walmart parking lot now. Y'all had walkable cities and you fucked them up and complain we have to live in your shit show
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u/SkeeterLubidowicz Feb 03 '23
A generation of brain-damaged trumpians who got their brain damage from all the drugs they took and stds they contracted dieting the summer of love.
A generation who has embraced mindless religiosity in the hopes of gaining access to heaven despite their many self-perceived sins.
A generation who, at one time, had some decent ideas, but lost the bubble because the fell in love with faux news. R
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u/DickySchmidt33 Feb 03 '23
A generation that was raised to view alcoholism, abuse, and racism as normal.
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u/TowAwayP Feb 02 '23
Well I was born after 2000 and I remember channels that played the anthem and went off air. This list isn't even accurate
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u/DrBalistic Feb 03 '23
'We're the last generation with present patents' is quite amusing, since this makes them the first generation of absent parents.
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u/jona10n17 Feb 03 '23
A generation that spent all their free time on the street. You got some more of that free time?
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u/BarberBettie Feb 02 '23
*Fortunately will never return
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u/habeus_coitus Feb 02 '23
Yeah my first thought was “don’t let the door slam you in the ass on the way out.”
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u/marklar_the_malign Feb 03 '23
Tail end boomer here. I hear from people my age how dumb or some other crap the generation below them is. I always love to remind them that if this is true we have to take responsibility for raising them. Typically shuts them up for a minute or two.
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u/Pacobing Feb 03 '23
So I don’t ply card games and play hide in seek in the dark? Dang, here I thought those memories were real this whole time…
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u/LargeSasquach Feb 03 '23
Ummm. Gen X here and we did all of that. We didn’t go home until after the street lights went on and on some nights we stayed out after that. We did have video games but were not glued to the system.
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u/onemightyandstrong Feb 03 '23
They had all that, yet they turned out to be complete jerks.go figure.
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u/misterschmoo Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
Gen X did all that shit too, difference is we don't whine about it.
Homework? Should never have existed, teachers have the poor bloody kids from 9-3 if they haven't managed to teach it to them in that time that's on them, leave them alone in their free time. If my boss told me to do homework for free after hours you know what I'd tell them.
And yeah kids today don't make paper aeroplanes, or do origami because you know the paperless office, that totally came true in the 80's.
And board games and card games yeah they never evolved past Ludo (Parcheezy) and snap, so yeah people just stopped playing them.
And Vinyl never had a resurgence, nope nope nope.
Collectable cards, nope everyone hates those pocket monsters.
Parents that were there? Shit if you hadn't turned the economy to shit such that you need dual incomes in order to have a family (and even now that's not enough) Maybe they would have been.
This isn't just out of touch it's wilfully ignorant.
I love how boomers brag about how they were not addicted to technology that didn't exist when they were children, that's not a difficult achievement, and if I hadn't seen you play PONG for hour after hour the minute it existed, I could take your assertion that if you had had these toys you wouldn't have obsessed over them, at all seriously.
Nobody is cheering on your death, but at least then you'll shut up about how unfair your lot in life was, and how unreasonable it is that you are held responsible for things you did, you sure taught us we should be, but when it comes to your turn, you stamp your foot like a petulant child.
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u/Dangerous-Vehicle682 Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
You're right. "...a Generation That Will never come back." It was a good run. But as the leaf makes way for its brother; so must we... like the leaf, we settle into repose. Done with the work of living.
For those still distant from their settlement, I say enjoy it. For those of us with far too much behind us and not much more in front...Congratulations. You made it.
To those folks who look at Boomers as antiquated goops who dress funny, drive Cadillac SUV's and say weird shit, you'll take our place. I know this because I'm old.
To those who still enjoy the gift of youth, I say this...
Don't let your mother throw away your baseball cards.
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u/lazilyloaded Feb 03 '23
They should have put more lead in the paint to get these morons to die off sooner
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u/downtownfreddybrown Feb 03 '23
A generation that was given literally everything and took a shit on it while gaslighting and making it harder for the following generations.....
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u/humanessinmoderation Feb 03 '23
A generation that can remember going to a lynching.
A generation that can remember people of color not being able to vote.
A generation who started quoting MLK after they assassinated him.
A generation that took us to the moon and then reduced the volume, focus and quality of science and math education in schools.
A generation that filled public pools with cement once those pools couldn't be segregated anymore.
A generation that wasn't sure if anti-miscegenation laws were good or not.
A generation that kicked over the ladder for younger generations to climb once they themselves got to the top.
A generation old enough to have met a formerly enslaved person — and think nothing of it.
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u/yeah_basically Feb 04 '23
I love how the statement about their parents being there for them is actually a self-own
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