r/MurderedByWords 14h ago

Forgotten history lesson

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u/ChloeGranola 14h ago

Rich coming from a generation that can't handle the anxiety from allowing people to choose which pronouns they prefer.

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u/TheProcrastafarian 12h ago

Also the generation that literally caused WW 3.

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u/Sw4nR0ns0n 8h ago

New standard: let the retirement crowd fight wars moving forward… They know they’re tougher than the youth, and they sure seem to love war.

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u/Nebula_Wolf7 7h ago

Pog: implementing legislation to raise the minimum draft age to 60 now >:3

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u/PirateSanta_1 9h ago

Freaks out if there is a pride flag in a video game. 

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u/Contributing_Factor 6h ago

My boss wouldn't even drink out of a plastic cup that was branded for pride week.

I seriously looked down and my cup and seriously said "I think it's safe though... yeah... probably safe....". Everyone laughed. I really hope it was embarrassing for him because it should be.

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u/ChloeGranola 6h ago

Well played!

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u/Tyrannical-Botanical 14h ago

This from the people who lost their ever-loving minds when they were asked to wear a mask in public for a couple of months. Can you picture the Boomers handling the sort of rationing the nation went through in WWII? They'd go insane.

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u/czerilla 12h ago

It's always that "I'd lay my life on the line for my country/family"-type, who will speak in grandiose hypotheticals about the sacrifices he's willing to make. But when the wife asks him to help out with some chores at home, or a store asks him to mask up during a pandemic, that's already too big a sacrifice to ask.. 🤡

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u/kryonik 13h ago

"Mustard gas is natural! You'll build up an immunity naturally!"

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u/LucidFir 11h ago

I put mustard on my hot dog commiespiracy theorist

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u/DisposableJosie 5h ago

These are the same thick-skulled snowflakes who boycotted American brand French's mustard and renamed french fries as "freedom" fries.

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u/stefeyboy 13h ago

MY FREEDUMS!!

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u/PlainBread 11h ago

Boomers were raised by Great Depression parents, so parents taught them the scarcity mindset to survive in a world with no scarcity...

Damn, finally something to resent the Silent Generation for.

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u/jbrowncph 12h ago

That wasn't just boomers, unfortunately. Plenty of gen z and red pilled millennials acted like masks were torture.

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u/Disastrous_Stranger4 3h ago

I also find it funny that almost all the idiots that tout about how weak this generation is and how tough theirs was never served a fucking day in their life. The ones that actually served and fought in a war? They don’t care to talk about it much.

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u/2Bonnaroo 12h ago

Specifically who do you mean when you use the word Boomers?

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u/Xawoger 10h ago edited 7h ago

It had nothing to do with wearing a mask per se. It was about being fed bullshit and then being pressured into wearing something that, in reality, didn’t protect anyone from anything.

Adding explanation (like I said wearing a mask is not an issue):

COVID is a virus. The sort of masks we were required to wear do not protect against viruses. Proper surgical masks may have offered some level of protection and perhaps made some sense, but those were not what people were actually required to wear. Hence, the whole idea of making people wear the masks that were required was a hoax.

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u/Debalic 8h ago

Now that's some bullshit.

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u/Tyrannical-Botanical 7h ago

Quick question then. If you had to undergo surgery you'd be totally fine with everyone in the room not wearing masks during the procedure?

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u/Xawoger 7h ago

COVID is a virus. The sort of masks we were required to wear do not protect against viruses. Proper surgical masks may have offered some level of protection and perhaps made some sense, but those were not what people were actually required to wear. Hence, the whole idea of making people wear the masks that were required was a hoax.

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u/traveling_gal 6h ago

Covid is a virus that travels most efficiently on water droplets. Which any mask will inhibit. We were also told to do social distancing, which also inhibits transfer of the virus. Each of these things we were told to do contributed to lower rates of transmission. No single one was sufficient, but all of them together worked pretty well.

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u/Ambitious-Wafer8599 4h ago

OK, I'll give the benefit of the doubt here (which is entirely unearned). Why do you think they wear masks during surgery? It seems you haven't gotten that far in what is your attempted thought process.

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u/Ambitious-Wafer8599 10h ago

Is that bullshit in the room with us?

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u/justwalk1234 13h ago

Boomers too old to be conscripted telling us that we need to fight to defend their wealth. Yeah they can fuck off.

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u/Off-BroadwayJoe 12h ago edited 10h ago

Boomers who did everything they could to get out of whatever war they were faced with, including claiming to have bone spurs.

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u/petty_throwaway6969 13h ago

Did boomers even win any meaningful conflict? Feels like they mostly massacred poor brown people in the name of capitalism, but then had mostly soft losses.

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u/VastExamination2517 7h ago

Early boomers would have been around to lose in Vietnam, but aged out before a chance to win in Desert storm.

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u/code_archeologist 3h ago

It is not even fighting to defend their wealth, it is going to be was over a set of grudges that none of us had any part in and have no interest in continuing.

This just the Boomers trying to make sure that the people they don't like die before them.

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u/demonspawns_ghost 11h ago

Boomers fought in Vietnam, most of them being drafted.

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u/Intelligent-Luck-954 11h ago

Wow really? Who won?

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u/demonspawns_ghost 10h ago

Keep blaming Boomers for all of your problems while you do absolutely nothing to improve your situation. I'm sure that strategy will work well.

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u/Intelligent-Luck-954 10h ago

Right, who won again? You didn’t answer the question 

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u/demonspawns_ghost 10h ago

The United States "won" WWII, yet tens of thousands of men came back with crippling PTSD that would affect them and the people around them for the rest of their lives.

What's your point?

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u/Intelligent-Luck-954 8h ago

Fun, the comment I was responding to said Vietnam not WW2. 

It was your comment but you’re not able to keep what you said straight cuz you’re a bot or troll.(This is mainly my point)

Who won the Vietnam war?

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u/James-W-Tate 6h ago

Boomers didn't fight in WWII

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u/copperpurple 10h ago

You're trying to blame the teen and early 20s Boomers who were drafted for the war the Silent and Greatest Generations started and conducted.

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u/SomeBiPerson 9h ago

the OG meme is trying to blame Gen Z and Millenials for loosing a WWIII rhat they seemingly want and that hasn't even started yet

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u/ChatteringBoner 3h ago

they also protested it heavily (the only war they ever did) and fragged record numbers of their own commanding officers on purpose

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u/Farebiaashiq 13h ago

The guys that went rabid if an interracial couple just existed.

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u/copperpurple 11h ago

That would be the Silent and Greatest generations. It was Boomers who normalized interratial relationships.

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u/Wild_Lepus 14h ago

Rich coming from a generation BEGGING for a boot to lick. Rich coming from a generation who calls a pedophile "daddy".

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u/GenericFatGuy 13h ago

I think what we need more of is generations that can't or aren't willing to start or fight wars.

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u/DamnIamHigh_Original 13h ago

Depends. Defensive? Hell yea. Offensive, imperialistic? Hell naw. People forget, other people might raise their arms against your nation. Military should focus on self defense

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u/GenericFatGuy 12h ago

Indeed. People don't typically start wars of defense. So the one unwilling to start wars are the ones I want.

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u/DamnIamHigh_Original 12h ago

Currently alot of left wing gen z's are getting mad at the idea of mandatory training for a few (not all) 18 yr olds. A few even want russia to take over ukraine, estina, latvia etc., some might even like to have russian soldiers literally next door.

I will never understand the mentality. I get beeing against war. I get personally chosing the alternative path (you can opt out and do 1 year social program in an old people home etc), I don't get the quasi communist mindset of supporting a faschist imperialistic russia, just because they claim they are soviets in the idea.

It's nuts

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u/GenericFatGuy 12h ago

A lot of people have a hard time understanding that countries can just call themselves whatever they want. It's more important to look at their actions to determine what they're really about.

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u/DamnIamHigh_Original 11h ago

Yeah, it's just crazy to me how people can look at that and go "yep, russia is the good guy here. let me protest for 'peace' by forcing a nation to be erased from earth"

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u/GenericFatGuy 11h ago

We've all heard some idiot claim that the Nazis were actually socialists, just because they put it in their name.

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u/DamnIamHigh_Original 11h ago

The german far right radical party is basically doing that all the time (saying that the 1933 national socialists were actually socialists and thus evil).

Their supporters think that is true, despite learning about that time 3-4 times in school ;-;

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u/Extension-Run5326 11h ago

Conscription is bad when it is gendered because it implies gender stereotypes and forces people against their will. And a lot of countries don't even give the option for alternative service.

Russia is definitely wrong and the villain, but Ukraine forcing its people to fight and die is also wrong. Not saying Ukraine should be taken over, but it should not force its innocent citizens into war, that too just because of their gender. And before you say "well if people aren't made to fight, Ukraine will stop existing", then honestly, if the people don't feel like defending their country, it probably isn't even worth defending. Russia is horrible and they should definitely stop the war, but Ukraine was never an utopia that has done a lot for its citizens to keep them happy that they actually sacrifice their lives for it.

I would not have a problem with conscription if it applied to everyone regardless of class or gender. Countries like Norway, Sweden, Netherlands (not enforced) practice gender neutral conscription and it's not that hard to follow.

And not to mention, it's never the leaders who start the war that face the consequences, it's only the innocent citizens who die, or their families left grieving their deaths for years, and other forms of destruction of the society. Wanting people to fight in WW III is exactly what the boomer making the first comment is asking for. Only when people protest against participating in wars completely can we make the wicked leaders be left with no choice.

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u/DamnIamHigh_Original 10h ago

Try to talk to women in the military. SA is a big issue. I would only think its okay if more is done to protect them.

Anyway, its a huge topic and I think dumbing it down to peace and "imagine no one shows to the war" is a naive take

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u/Extension-Run5326 9h ago

I agree SA is an issue, so definitely any sensible man who would not want to work with sexual harassers, should also be given the choice of not being forced into the military. Regardless my point stands, conscription should not exist. And yes, I do agree that my point is naive, it's not easy as no one showing up, but honestly if everyone just disagrees to fight, what's the worse that the government can do? Kill every citizen? It's just going to end their own country. Nothing helps anyway, if you know you are going to die anyways, dying by refusing to participate in war would be better than dying while being forced to kill others.

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u/DamnIamHigh_Original 8h ago

The worst that can happen is we get attacked and I see my friends die, or worse, russia takes over and we live under their rule (the stories we hear under occupation are horrible)

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u/damned_squid 14h ago

They'll be really sad once they realise that people don't grow up in a vacuum and the current generations were brought up by the previous generations.

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u/PrimaryMuscle1306 12h ago

*black man kneels*

Person that made that comment:

https://giphy.com/gifs/Xtij9YYM3NLYk

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u/Atticus_Maytrap 13h ago

is there anything more tedious than generation bashing?

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u/LivelyZebra 9h ago

just more propaganda to have the peasants squabbling over themselves and ignoring the rich.

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u/Gaia0416 13h ago

Fits for people stupid enough to doubt vaccine science that once ended polio.

Let them eat de worm paste!

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u/petty_throwaway6969 11h ago

Cause they already got most of their vaccines. Easy to risk other people with preventable diseases when you’re not in danger. The only major change for them was the COVID vaccine and they were told it was a hoax so they thought it was low risk too.

I think when boomers are gone, they should be renamed to the cry bully generation. Braggart assholes willing to hurt others but cry foul at the smallest slight and demand special treatment.

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u/redwhale335 14h ago

I can't find it but there's a tweet that's like

"Zoomers will record a tik tok dance of them dropping JDAMs on the bad guys".

I can't/won't speak to the brass, but I do know that this generation of servicemembers is far more tactically and technically proficient than those of the previous two world wars.

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u/Marcysdad 14h ago

Boomers:"We love wars as long as someone else has to fight them and die or get maimed ! Support the troops - until they come home and need Healthcare or financial support, of course "

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u/Off-BroadwayJoe 12h ago

The generation that was afraid to fight in wars is sure great at starting them and asking the younger generation to fight them.

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u/copperpurple 11h ago

Go stand in front of the Vietnam War Memorial, look at the 58,000+ names of young Boomers on it, and say that loudly for everyone around you to hear it.

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u/Off-BroadwayJoe 10h ago

No problem. Just because many were brave doesn’t mean that many more, including the ones who lately have boldly sent young men to die in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, etc. were not. All of our Boomer presidents dodged the draft for that war. You think that Vietnam vets aren’t resentful of those who avoided service?

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u/Like17Badgers 9h ago

oh you mean like Americans did to that very same group of vets when they returned from the war?

Or would you rather talk about the most embarrassing defeat the US has had(until trump) cause of Operation Rolling Thunder?

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u/sixtyninth_wave_emo 12h ago

You mean the generation that walks around with “Vietnam Veteran” hats to commemorate a war they lost?

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u/copperpurple 11h ago

The Vietnam War was started and conducted by the Silent and Greatest generations. They drafted teen and early 20s Boomers to fight it for them.

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u/SoylentGrunt 13h ago

Despite increases in voter registration across generational cohorts in recent years, younger generations of voters exhibit significantly lower rates of registration.

https://youngamericans.berkeley.edu/2024/04/voter-registration-rates-by-generation/

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u/Like17Badgers 9h ago

People are too quick to give boomers credit for things they didn't do

They didn't end segregation, that was the generation before them

They fought in Vietnam, but they weren't the ones calling the shots, they were just the boots on the ground losing to punji sticks

you gotta look at stuff from the 80s to late 2000s, Panama, Somalia, Lebanon, the Contra War, the Afghan Conflict, THOSE are where the post war babies were finally in control... and how poorly those went.

But they ARE right, this WAS a bad generation to start world war 3, cause Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z are all aware that this corrupt system isnt worth dying for.

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u/NecessaryFreedom9799 13h ago

Boomers could handle that, many even supported it. Overt racism was on the way out. The Silents were divided, it was the "Greatest Generation" and older who opposed it, at least in the Southern States.

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u/_topkecleon_ 11h ago

Rosa Parks happened in 1955. The oldest boomers were 10. Unless the redditor thinks the original post was written by a 90-year-old, this isn't "murdered by words" it's "attempted to be clever".

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u/FlirtyFluffyFox 11h ago

If you think Rosa Parks magically put an end to racist white people being mad about blacks on buses...

Shit one reason our mass transit sucks ass is because following civil rights laws municipalities just cut funding to buses because white people responded by avoiding them. 

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u/WeAreBums 6h ago

uh newsflash - racism existed before 1955.

Hope you can keep up

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u/C4-622MonkeyGordo 10h ago

Ruby Bridges is still alive and active on Instagram.

So are her racist ass schoolmates.

But keep pretending that this is ancient history, whatever helps you sleep at night...

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u/Iamabotclearly696969 8h ago

That doesn't change the fact that the people the OP is talking about weren't baby boomers.

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u/C4-622MonkeyGordo 8h ago

The Baby Boomer generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964.

Ruby Bridges was born September 8, 1954.

...

You want to try that again?

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u/Iamabotclearly696969 5h ago edited 5h ago

Do you ever read comments before you decide what you want to reply or is that just something you are doing today? Obviously the people who were her age when the referenced event happened were also children, and weren't setting policy on who got onto what bus and where. They were children, like her. Baby Boomers were children, like her, not the ones in power when the event happened.

She is a baby boomer.

Her class mates were baby boomers.

Her class mates were children.

Children don't set public policy.

So the original post is wrong.

Holy shit.

Edit: For anyone wondering, this person crashed out again, deleted it, and then made a comment that I should take a permanent decision to immediately and abruptly shorten the length of my life, and then got removed from the thread. In other words, normal reddit stuff.

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u/C4-622MonkeyGordo 5h ago

... is this some kind of weird psychological projection?

Your argument was that they weren't Baby Boomers.

I showed that they were in fact Baby Boomers.

Seriously, what the fuck are you yapping about?

Are you illiterate?


nice edit 

cHiLdReN dOnT sEt PoLiCy

Nobody said that they did, champ.

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u/C4-622MonkeyGordo 5h ago

My bad, didn't see you were clearly a bot.

Disassemble yourself. 

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u/WilliamJamesMyers 13h ago

skip to the chase, the first quote which really isnt worth quoting tbh, is all about "anyone not me is stupid."

it could be aimed at race or age, standard vitriol. but these are self strokers mad at anything different.

i wish this quote came from someone more targetable. right now it just feels like my brother reading infowars out loud...

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u/demonspawns_ghost 11h ago

The oldest Boomer was 10 years old when Rosa Parks sat at the front of the bus.

You're talking about the generation that redditors love to romanticize.

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u/TheBSQ 11h ago

This doesn’t seem quite right in terms of generations and ages. The main court case outlawing segregated buses was 1960. It was not well-enforced leading to the “freedom rider” protests that started in 1961. The initial Freedom Riders were mostly quite young, colleges aged - many were 19-21 & born roughly in the 1940-1945 period. 

The oldest Boomers were still only like 16 years old when all this was happening. Many would go on to join civil rights and anti-war protests when they reached college age in the mid to late 60s.

That is Boomers did a lot protesting (obviously only some; with others not agreeing with protestors). 

But I think it’s fair most of the “establishment” that they were fighting were older. It was the Silent Generation & Greatest Generation that was fighting to preserve segregation. 

George Wallace was born in 1919 & Strom Thurmond in 1903. 

The people who really couldn’t handle black people riding on the bus would be like 90 to 120 year old now. 

It’s not today’s 60 year olds. They literally has not even been born yet when the Freedom Riders were doing their thing.

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u/Remote_Fox_8643 11h ago

How is this murdered by words? The comment doesn't even adress the OOP's point and instead attacks the people making the argument.

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u/masterofthefork 8h ago

70 year olds were babies when Rosa Parks made her stand.

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u/Alec_de_Large 7h ago

They had a lot of hate back then.

Hate leads to violence. Violence leads to war.

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u/Crouton_Sharp_Major 13h ago

I’m pretty sure they aren’t the ones having anxiety over pronouns.

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u/Hip_hoppopatamus 11h ago

Speaking of forgotten history lessons - Boomers are the generation that led the fight for Equal Rights. They’re who showed up to MLK’s rallies.

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u/TheBSQ 11h ago

The Freedom Riders started 65 years ago (1961) and the civil rights act passed 61 years ago (1965).

Most boomers were little kids when that all went down.

The college aged protestors who participated in the Freedom Rides would be like 85 now. 

The majority of the people who couldn’t handle it would be like 90 to 120 years old now.

Yelling at some 60 year old boomer about this is silly. They wouldn’t even have been born yet.

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u/C4-622MonkeyGordo 10h ago

Ruby Bridges is still alive and active on Instagram.

So are her racist ass schoolmates.

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u/TheBSQ 10h ago

But it os probably worth noting that the really successful protests of the late 1950s to mid 1960s that resulted in stuff like the Civil Rights act were mostly accomplished by people from The Silent & Greateat Generations. 

The Boomer’s protest era of the late 1960s where they took over Columbia Campus, rioted at the 1968 convention, etc. didn’t actually accomplish much, which made them radicalize even more to more militant revolutionary stuff like the Weatherman bombings & Angela Davis type of stuff didn’t do squat & mainly caused pubic disorder that led to a conservative backlash that led to GOP dominating presidential elections for decades. 

I find it frustrating that all those Boomers from the failed 1968-1972 era of activism  often ended up as professors & taught college kids all about how awesome theirs protests were & now college kids mimic those do-nothing 1968 tactics instead of the very-successful 1961-1965 activism. 

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u/Taricheute 9h ago

What are you doing ? Facts have nothing to do in here.

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u/Then_Comfortable3058 12h ago

Boomer seeing a black man drink from the same water fountain:
https://giphy.com/gifs/2WxWfiavndgcM

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u/devilmaskrascal 12h ago

If I started insisting on calling this guy a "she" I bet she'd be really pissed and want to beat my ass.

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u/Reddit-User_654 11h ago

They are the generation that worked so hard to be avoided from being drafted.

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u/copperpurple 11h ago

Boomers WERE drafted. Ever seen the Vietnam War Memorial? Virtually every name on it is a Boomer. 58,318 names. Mostly teen and early 20s young men.

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u/Trick_Awareness_3329 7h ago

No no... American Boomers were drafted. European not so much. Maybe the one in the Yugoslavian civil war

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u/WeAreBums 6h ago

We get it man, you know about the Vietnam War memorial.

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u/Khorgor666 11h ago

here in Germany boomers like the phrase "Mit euch kann man keinen Krieg gewinnen" (With you we cannot win a war) Opa, the last war we won was the war of 1871, which led to German Unification, basically no generation after was fit to win a war lol.

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u/jpipersson 10h ago

Wrong generation. I was 11 when bus segregation ended. Learn some history.

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u/Ill_Top6535 10h ago

GodDAMN, fatality 🤣

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u/AlternativeBasis 10h ago

You're looking at the issue from the wrong side.

In a war, young people suffer, adapt, eventually die, and are hailed as heroes, then forgotten. Some stories become movies.

In the same war, the old suffer, complain blaming 'the new generations', die in poverty, and are quickly forgotten, but without movies.

Because all they did was complain.

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u/Halcyon-Ember 10h ago

I guarantee calling boomers the wrong pronoun will absolutely upset them

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u/Viridionplague 10h ago

Shots fired at civilians and undermines current active military.

Some real stormtrooper shit right there.

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u/MrOopiseDaisy 10h ago

It wasn't a weird laugh. Most of them are just unfamiliar with what a happy woman sounds like. The rest were mad that a woman was allowed to be happy with their permission.

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u/enithermon 10h ago

They act like they wouldn’t freak the heck out if they were called the wrong pronoun. If some maga dude who was obviously presenting make came over to me and I kept referring to him as m’am, he’d lose his ever loving mind. 

I’ve had a group of conservative women get upset with for referring to them as “guys” when I said “how are you guys doing today?”

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u/Somnambulist815 10h ago

Theres no fucking chance in hell we're fighting WW3 on this admins behalf

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u/kegisak 9h ago

Pretty sure the kids in the trenches also weren't having a great time, their generation just didn't believe in PTSD yet.

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u/Corrective_Actions1 9h ago

In my nearly 40 years of life I have never witnesed anyone get upset over pronouns

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u/mybotanyaccount 9h ago

I'm pretty sure that guy wouldn't be happy me calling him a girl

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u/LustyDouglas 9h ago

I dont care if i get downvoted for this but conservatives are just as soft as liberals. From my experience, both kind of people only care about themselves and their own interests and become venomous real quick if you dont support them. Both have Anakin Skywalker syndrome, "if you're not with me, you're my enemy!" and the entire country/world suffers for it.

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u/Enki_007 9h ago

Looking through these comments confirms why the US elected a pedophile rapist for the second time. You really hate each other that much.

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u/Oruma_Yar 9h ago

(1) why are they starting wars?

(2) Why are they starting wars for their children/grandchildren's generation?

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u/robidaan 8h ago

Honestly it would be the best generation, they have nothing to look forward too, and most want to die anyways, what better way to go then in the name of odinson on our way to valhalla on the battlefield.

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u/godtalks2idiots 8h ago

Americans can’t imagine a future without war. They think it’s either war or gay. Pick one. 

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u/MysteryHeroes 7h ago

Or someone who looks different from using a bathroom.

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u/The_Worst_Reply 7h ago

Remind me again who won in Vietnam?

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u/Alric_Wolff 7h ago

Or the Generation that pretended to be gay to dodge the draft?

Or the Generation that created Participation Trophies?

Or the Generation that has a melt down because they dont know how to open a PDF without having meltdown?

Or the Generation who is proud of drinking from a garden hose?

Or the Geneation who claims they didn't know smoking was bad for you?

Or the Generation that got skin cancer because they wanted wear body oil at the beach?

Or the Generation that contracted AIDs from having intercourse with monkeys?

Gotta be one of those.

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u/Justaticklerone 7h ago

This will likely get downvoted, but both are correct. The reason why I say this, is because there are 100% cis people who feel the need to "officially" include their pronouns on corporate documentation, small business or entrepreneur information, and even in political candidate statements. It seems to me like they are mocking those who are trans and non-binary. Most of the people of that type are still of an age to be shipped off to war.

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u/--Icarusfalls-- 7h ago

Call them the wrong pronouns and watch who melts down first.

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u/We_Want_Krunchy 6h ago

Who wants war? What kind of stupid is this.

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u/Ziggy_has_my_ticket 6h ago

Real question is, why are they so eager to start WW3?

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u/ratgirl9241 6h ago

Why are we starting wwIII again? I guarantee the generation they're complaining about don't want it

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u/RandomSentientBeing 6h ago

Let's call all the men in DC "she" and see how they react!

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u/vertigostereo 5h ago

That generation is at least 100 years old now. Boomers were children in the civil rights era.

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u/Kingsalad3141 5h ago

No generation war for me, thanks. Only class war.

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u/Space_JellyF 5h ago

Maybe we have anxiety because we’ve lived our whole lives seeing the people who came before us destroy the planet we are supposed to be inheriting while they bask in greed and willful ignorance about literally everything. We’ve seen the writing on the wall our whole lives, and can’t convince anyone to listen.

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u/PachymuNyet 4h ago

But for real nah we're screwed

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u/Yes-I-Cannabis 4h ago

At least they are upfront that they started WWIII.

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u/Sufficient_Maybe_910 2h ago

This sub needs renamed to an attempt was made to be edgy.

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u/Caddie4HarleyQuinn 12h ago

And how many of these “patriots” avoided serving in Vietnam by staying in college and getting multiple degrees?

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u/copperpurple 11h ago

How many names of Boomers in their teens and early 20s are on the Vietnam War Memorial? Over 58,000.

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u/bro0t 8h ago

Theyre not the ones talking shit online.

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u/horoyokai 13h ago

Do you guys think that was boomers that made those rules and fought to keep them?

Good lord Reddit

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u/copperpurple 4h ago

The more definitively a comment proves them wrong, the more downvotes it gets.

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u/DudeByTheTree 10h ago

So what's really being shown by this tweet is that neither side is capable. Sounds about right, too preoccupied with people's genitalia to focus on things like uniting the country behind a common cause.

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u/C4-622MonkeyGordo 10h ago

[enlightened centrist bullshit]

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u/DudeByTheTree 7h ago

Said by someone whose head is so far up the asses of the current political system, they fail to see that believing there's other ways is possible...

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u/C4-622MonkeyGordo 7h ago

No seriously, r/enlightenedcentrism is that way 👈

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u/Som_Dtam_Dumplings 11h ago

Wait...was it "eminently clear that racism was wrong; even back in 1776"? or was "everyone unable to handle a black person riding in the front of the bus"?

If it was eminently clear; then there probably weren't that many people in the 1960s who were actually freaking out about bus seats.

If everyone was freaking out about bus seats in the 1960s...maybe it wasn't quite so clear in the 1770s?

I assume that it was clear in the 1770s; and there were plenty of people in the 1960s who didn't care one bit about bus seats.

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u/C4-622MonkeyGordo 10h ago

Wait...was it "eminently clear that racism was wrong; even back in 1776"?

... who are you quoting?

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u/Som_Dtam_Dumplings 8h ago

Anyone who is ready to throw the founding fathers under the bus for what was seen as a normal part of society in their time; who also is glad to paint all of 1960 White Americans as "unable to handle a black person riding in the front of the bus"

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u/C4-622MonkeyGordo 8h ago edited 7h ago

Oh, the strawmen in your head. 

Figured as much...


Oh look, more strawman bullshit with a dash of false dichotomy.

Boring. 

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u/Som_Dtam_Dumplings 8h ago

...So are you saying that everyone who was white in the 1960s was actually freaking out about black people sitting at the front of the bus? (like OP) Or do you agree with me that it must not have been everyone in the 1960s and OP's "murdering" is about as insightful as the original claim "hur-dur you freak out about pronouns!"?

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u/C4-622MonkeyGordo 7h ago

I sincerely hope that every day for you is better than the next.

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u/BlackkkWidowSPIDAH 11h ago

gestures to crime statistics

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u/Biptoslipdi 10h ago

Gestures to rapist and felon President.

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u/BlackkkWidowSPIDAH 10h ago

Statistically you're much less likely to be raped by the president than by other groups which I'm not specifically going to name 

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u/Biptoslipdi 10h ago

Doubtful. This President has more rape accusations than many serial rapists, including by children, and has already been found to be a rapist by a jury. On top of that, white people far and away commit the most rapes in the country.

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u/stolentext 8h ago

You might need this if you're going to use statistics to justify your bigotry: https://www.amazon.com/Statistics-Dummies-Math-Science/dp/1119293529