“Generational politics is bull…”
90% of my bad experiences with customers come from Boomers. Something about being born in that era makes you an entitled, impatient dickhead.
I had a very bad day at work if you couldn’t tell.
“Generational politics is bull…”
90% of my bad experiences with customers come from Boomers. Something about being born in that era makes you an entitled, impatient dickhead.
I had a very bad day at work if you couldn’t tell.
Generational politics are bull because there were Boomers who took bullets for Civil Rights, told troops to go fuck themselves, and built unions under Tricky Dicky. Some of those who threw bricks at cops at Stonewall are still around. It’s always an issue of class and class interests.
The Black Panther who shot FBI agents isn’t the same person yelling at you for not comping their meal because you only refilled their drink 5 times instead of 6.
It’s ultimately a class thing, because the majority of boomers who have managed to live this long had the means to do so. Cooler boomers perished because they didn’t have the money to survive.
So a while ago someone here interrogated that line, didn’t save the comment. A lot of civil rights leaders were actually silent generation. The ones who were boomers were generally elder boomers. When millennials complain about boomers they’re complaining about people their parents age, who were kids during the civil rights movement and were adults in the 80. That demo is reactionary as fuck, Reagan won the youth vote, pretty much the only time a Republican did.
Leadership was largely Silent and Great Generation, but a lot of people doing work on the ground were Boomers. Most of the Freedom Riders were Boomers. Most of the Panthers were Boomers. The core contributors of 2nd. Wave Feminism were Boomers.
Reagan is an outlier. He didn’t win just the Boomer vote, he won the vote across the board. Minnesota is the only state that didn’t vote to reelect him. He took all 49 other states in a complete landslide. 42% of women, 91% of black people, and 54% of union members still voted against him. So the point still stands. The old white guy yelling at you is not the same person as the black woman who was in the BPP.
Why did everyone love this demon?