My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I don’t want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldn’t seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)
I accidentally blocked a community while trying to block a user and when I went to unblock it, I saw I had 1250 communities filtered. If I had to guess, 90% are either porn, sports, or anime.
What about you?
My point is that lots and lots of us didn’t really love that kind of stuff at the time. It’s just that those kinds of jokes stand out, along with race jokes, because they’ve aged so badly.
It must suck to be a “normal” boomer in the internet getting lumped in with the shitheads of your demographic. Hell…you’re the ones who pushed the civil rights movement.
It’s a shame your generation (not you specifically, of course) fucked the world up to the point that every generation after you looks back in disgust and doesn’t even consider the things you did right.
What sucks is that people attribute stuff like that to the whole generation; we get painted broadly as very right wing conservatives who are against any social programs. But look at things like the age demographics of the last couple presidential elections. Yes, you’ll see that more older people voted conservative than liberal, but not by a large margin. You’ll also see that, though more younger folks voted liberal, that margin wasn’t huge either. And in our society, it’s not unusual for folks to get more conservative as they get older (the opposite for me personally, but it’s often true), so it won’t be surprising if younger folks today vote more conservatively when they’re older.
Huge hunks of boomers are fighting for equal rights for all people, are big proponents of social programs that help those who are disadvantaged, advocate for universal healthcare, and all sorts of other progressive issues. Large numbers of younger people are against those things. The fact that total numbers might tip one way or another doesn’t change that, and applying a stereotype to millions of people is always wrong.
I think it’s really the policies pushed by the politicians that your generation voted in that led to the boomer hate. My generation will surely be remembered for Trump just like yours for Reagan
Okay, but there were go again. Remember that the oldest boomers were in their mid 30s when Regan was first elected. Take a look at these demographics. Boomers were the ones mostly voting for Carter.
Sorry I think we’re on the same page here, my generation is largely anti-trump but we’re going to be remembered for voting him in. I was trying to draw the comparison of falsely placed blame.
I understand, and I didn’t mean to come off too strong, but you have no idea how many times I’ve seen people in these communities saying that all boomers are horrible, some even going so far as to say that the world would be better if we were all dead. Unironically. Can you image the backlash if someone said that about any other demographic? A gender? A race? It gets a bit frustrating to be worse than dismissed because of the year I was born, regardless of the fact that I’m a pretty progressive liberal on the same side as most of the people doing the dismissing.