2016: The National "Cry For Help"

[Eric the Green]

(01-03-2017, 05:50 AM)Galen Wrote:

(01-01-2017, 09:26 PM)gabrielle Wrote:

(01-01-2017, 04:17 PM)taramarie Wrote:

(01-01-2017, 04:09 PM)gabrielle Wrote:

(01-01-2017, 03:56 PM)taramarie Wrote: Ah actually some xers have actually said it would be better if they were dead. Heck I have even known some boomers themselves who have said it would be better if their generation was dead. Sorry but you cannot take away from what has already been said. Does it mean all agree? No. But some have actually said that.

It might be that he was only referring to a few assholes on these forums, but I got the impression he was speaking in a general sense.

Could be but from my personal experience it goes beyond this forum unfortunately. It is even shown here in NZ too with some of our xers. Millies to a lesser degree. It is sad because these people probably have boomer relatives. Are they wishing them dead too? Things said in anger like this can be quite idiotic when you think about it.

Yes, that is pretty shitty.  I have never personally heard anyone wish Boomers were dead, Gen X or otherwise.  Some of my Millie coworkers have complained about Boomers, and shared memes like this:

One of the best summations of what the Boomers did that I have ever seen.

Well it's true, but only the first picture in the upper left is any kind of accusation (and it's false, of course, from any point of view, whether mine or Warren's.) These pictures of a Boomer young worker and the "meme" words with them only show that the Boomers had it better in youth than young people today, not anything that Boomers did "wrong." That's certainly true, but it's all because people became hooked on the memes that Galen promotes. And at first, Boomers were less hooked by Reaganomics than other generations were. But now, Boomers by and large have certainly not woken up to the facts of inequality, nor to the responsibility of Galen's favorite neo-liberal memes FOR those facts.