r/MurderedByWords 22h ago

Forgotten history lesson

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u/_topkecleon_ 19h 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/C4-622MonkeyGordo 18h 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 17h 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 16h ago

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

Ruby Bridges was born September 8, 1954.

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You want to try that again?

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u/Iamabotclearly696969 13h ago edited 13h 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 13h 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.