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The "Bad Apples" of each generation
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(10-19-2018, 11:29 AM)Ghost Wrote: I don't know if threads like this are allowed, but this was something I have been thinking about for a while.

Here are the ones I can think of for each generation starting with the Silents:

Silent Generation:

Pol Pot (b. 1925)
James Earl Ray (b. 1928)
James "Whitey" Bulger (b. 1929) crime boss and murderer
Jim Jones (b. 1931)
Louis Farrakhan (b. 1933) not allowed; not so bad
Dianne Feinstein (b. 1933) not allowed; very positive
William Luther Pierce (b. 1933)
Charles Manson (b. 1934)
Saddam Hussein (b. 1937)
Maxine Waters (b. 1938) not allowed; very fine idealistic champion
David Lane (b. 1938) White supremacist. A member of the terror group The Order, he was convicted and sentenced to 190 years in prison for racketeering; conspiracy; and for violating the civil rights of Alan Berg, a Jewish radio talk show host
John Wayne Gacy (b. 1942)

Baby Boomer:

Ted Bundy (b. 1946)
Hillary Clinton (b. 1947) not allowed; very fine idealistic champion. All charges against her are false except favoring the Honduras regime. 
Edmund Kemper (b. 1948)
David Duke (b. 1950)
James Hodgkinson (b. 1950) shot Republican congress members at ball game
Harvey Weinstein (b. 1952)
Stephen Paddock (b. 1953) 
Mark David Chapman (b. 1955)
John Bachtell (b. 1956)
Osama Bin Laden (b. 1957)
Jeffrey Dahmer (b. 1960)
Yolanda Saldivar (b. 1960) convicted of the murder of Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez

Generation X:

Malik Zulu Shabbaz (b. 1966)
Timothy McVeigh (b. 1968)
Mohammed Atta (b. 1968)
Cory Booker (b. 1969) not allowed; fine idealistic champion
Paul Nehlen (b. 1969) neo nazi candidate
Quannel X (b. 1970) not allowed; new black panther leader
Matthew Hale (b. 1971) neo-nazi leader
Wade Michael Page (b. 1971) 
Kristian "Varg" Vikernes (b. 1973) metal rock musician convicted of murder
Jared Fogle (b. 1977) convicted child molester
Rachel Dolezal (b. 1977) not allowed; civil rights leader who posed as a black woman
Richard Spencer (b. 1978) white supremacist publisher
Linda Sarsour (b. 1980) not allowed; fine idealistic champion, civil rights leader
Mark Collett (b. 1980) ? British far right leader, not "bad" enough?

Millennial: still Gen X according to S&H

Eric Harris (b. 1981)
Dylan Klebold (b. 1981)

Millennial: 
Anita Sarkeesian (b. 1983) not allowed; very fine idealistic champion feminist
Jason Kessler (b. 1983) neo-nazi activist
Seung Hui-Cho (b. 1984) 
Nathan Damigo (b. 1986) neo-nazi activist
Omar Mateen (b. 1986)
Colin Kaepernick (b. 1987) not allowed; very fine idealistic champion, good athlete for a fine team!
Jared Lee Loughner (b. 1988)
Travis Reinking (b. 1989)
Christopher Harper Mercer (b. 1989)
Aaron Hernandez (b. 1989) bad but maybe not among the worst; he suffered brain injury which made him violent
Inna Shevchenko (b. 1990) not allowed; very fine idealistic champion feminist
Devin Patrick Kelly (b. 1991)
Matthew Heimbach (b. 1991)
Elliot Rodger (b. 1991)
Adam Lanza (b. 1992)
Dylann Roof (b. 1994)
TJ Lane (b. 1994)
Joshua Ryne Goldberg (b. 1995)

Generation Z: (Generation Y/Millennials extends to 2003, not 1996)

James Alex Fields (b. 1997)
XXXTentacion (b. 1998) not allowed; rapper and hip hop artist; victim of shooting
Nikolas Cruz (b. 1998)
Thomas Rousseau (b. 1998) neo-nazi group founder
Trippie Redd (b. 1999) I don't like rap, but that doesn't make him a bad apple
Anissa Weier (b. 2001) acted out a fictional murder; didn't succeed at it
Morgan Geyser (b. 2002) partner in the above
Danielle Bregoli (b. 2003) not allowed; female rapper

Generation Z:
Kaia James (b. 2006) not allowed; very fine idealistic champion

mass murderers need no comment.

The list is predominantly American, but not exclusively so. Probably there's a lot more non-american bad apples.

Good idea though. You made some wrong choices, but it's fair to point out bad apples.
"I close my eyes, and I can see a better day" -- Justin Bieber

Keep the spirit alive;
Eric M
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The "Bad Apples" of each generation - by Ghost - 10-19-2018, 11:29 AM
RE: The "Bad Apples" of each generation - by Eric the Green - 10-19-2018, 06:27 PM

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