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Social anxiety + extroversion is its own special hell.

It started in 1971 under Nixon. The guy who said "You start out in 1954 by saying, “N*gger, n*gger, n*gger.” By 1968 you can’t say “n*gger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N*gger, n*gger.”

Nationalities at least have a basis in actually existing nations. There’s literally no basis for generations.

Age cohorts exist. People born the same year have stuff in common. Generations aren’t like that, they’re just arbitrarily defined over arbitrary time spans.

Incarceration rates started skyrocketing in the 70s and only got worse from there. Did you forget about the war on drugs and who the primary victims were?

The meme is that boomers had it easy. Black boomers objectively didn’t. Black people have never had it easy in this country.

If you live during a time when things get better that, by definition, means you also lived during a time when things used to be worse.

It’s completely arbitrary, especially towards the edges of the time period. A boomer born 1946 had a wildly different life than a boomer born 1964, and a boomer born in 1964 has way more in common with a Gen Xer born in 1965.

Age cohorts are real, but “generations” are just arbitrary groupings.

Okay, but my point, that Black boomers didn’t have it easy, is still true.

Also generations are bullshit - they were made up by advertisers! They’re totally arbitrary.

Zero clue how you got this from my comment??? Ending Jim Crow was good, but claiming that Black boomers had it easy is fucked.

You realize that also means they got to suffer until those improvements happened? And then, of course, ending Jim Crow didn’t really fix everything. For Black boomers things got a little better for a while and then got worse again.

Boomers were alive in the 50s and 60s.

To be fair, a lot of them came into maturity later in the 70s and 80s, but it’s an age range of like 20 years.

Generations are bullshit ttbh

Yes, many forms of racist oppression have either stayed the same or gotten worse, particularly the prison industrial complex and with police killings just replacing lynchings.

But are you telling me that Black boomers had it easy under segregation and Jim Crow?

That could apply to individuals, like you said, but you can’t apply it broadly like you can apply privileges to white men.

Furthermore, they’re doing the same thing today so that literally hasn’t even changed.

But defeating the civil rights movement was more about killing off the leaders.

Times were not overall easier for everyone under segregation. You’re just looking at history through a white lens.

Only white men, though. They, as a cohort, definitely had it easy like no one else. Particularly straight able-bodied Christians.

Your comment makes sweeping generalizations about boomers as if they all had it easy. I want to remind people that this really only applied to a select group of specially elevated boomers. A white man could have what you say, good fucking luck if you were a Black woman though.

I have no idea what you’re even trying to say.

This thread is a circle jerk about how boomers had it easy. I just wanted to remind people that it was only the white ones that had it easy, and in particular, the able-bodied straight Christian men.

I believe that Black boomers didn’t have everything handed to them like white boomers, among other oppressed groups.

Times are easy or hard depending on who you are and your place in class society.

Even younger boomers had a decent chance of getting a job that you could raise a family with just a high school degree and older ones could be pretty successful.

Read this very carefully. Do you think this applied to Black people in 1960?

Not all boomers are white.

It’d be so easy to make veg dogs look like this. Literally just put different veg in it, boom, different colors.

But no, gotta dye the tube of pig buttholes.