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        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.

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

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              not true. as a matter of fact creating a black upper class was a key strategy to break the direction and unity of the civil rights movement.

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                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.

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                  well yeah and your taking the 60’s and its not like it would be better to be black in the 50’s. What im trying to say is things basically improved until we started periodically regressing in the 80’s and beyond. It was like two steps forward one step back and became one step forward two steps back and you can’t broadly apply it to white men either but im not talking about people im talking about the time periods and living in one to the other. If you go back to the OP its about getting criticized by the older generation and responding with their own failings. Which existed. I mean the boomer claim to fame is basically the hippie erra. yuppie and beyond was not great but the hippie era was a direct result of the draft. There were some earnest individuals trying to stop pollution and improve human rights but there was also some who just did not want to get killed and enjoyed the drugs.

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                    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

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      2 months ago

      That’s hilarious, do you also say that with your “death to America” hexbear buddies?

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        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?

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          yes. do you believe all black people in 1960 were on welfare? Do you believe no black people in 1960 had decent jobs. Discrimination is about relative opportunity of the time and believe it or not they do not have it better now. Heck we are losing much of what came out of the 60’s.

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

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

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              I never said boomers had everything handed to them. In a nutshell I said times were overall easier and have been getting worse since.

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                  no but segregation now is worse. do you think it ended and do you think its better with more pollution because your going to be surprised how segregation works?

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                    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?

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          Lol of course not, so I’ll repeat myself and say it’s funny how this never comes up in the “death to America” and “such and such is the West’s fault” of the other hexbear posts you comment in. I know you’re being a contrarian teenager right, but that’s the kind of stuff that makes hexbear posters look dumb.

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              “Fellas, does mention common refrains of someone you’re talking with make you MAD??”

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            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.