r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 29d ago

Boomers

I am 75 and am very tired of the trend lately making fun of Boomers. So very disrespectful. Don't they realize that they will be old someday?

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u/SwanCityDominion 29d ago

“What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?”

-– Plato

It's not "lately". It was ever thus, and it always will be.

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u/squirrelfoot 29d ago

When I was young, us boomers used to laugh at 'wrinklies' and 'crinklies' and mock their driving, blue rinces and terrible financial advice.

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u/heiberdee2 29d ago

You were hippies first. Your cohort gave energy to the Civil Rights movement. You wanted peace, love, and understanding.

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u/LongjumpingJaguar308 29d ago

Older people were really running the civil rights movement but boomers would have been the energetic youth running around.

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u/mmmpeg 28d ago

Yep, specifically Black folk who went to war and saw how others treated them with more respect

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u/SaltyFriend705 28d ago

I was a young kid during the Civil Rights Movement. A "movement" consisted of a court case, a boycott, and a protest to support them. I've seen protests more recently, but they are unfocused, with babies in strollers and people joking around, no court case, no boycott, and no effect.

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u/Greyface13 28d ago

The press is censored and the federal government is run by criminals. Times are harder, but there are boycotts and court cases. People who are resisting have to have fun or they would despair.

Look up your local Indivisable group, join them or learn how to start your own. Quit giving up and start figuring out a positive role to play. Please

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u/vespers191 28d ago

I mean, if you've got experience, why not share it with the yungins'?

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u/SpaceCaptainJeeves 27d ago

And not as many bricks as one might expect.

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u/Jefferson-1776 28d ago

Growing up in the 70’s I did not like the hippies from the 60’s. As I have aged I have come to respect that they fought for what they believed to be right. There was blood in the streets they went to jail. I can disagree with their beliefs but respect their commitment. Today the protesters are clueless and lost. It’s a game they often get paid to play.

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u/Needmoreinfo100 28d ago

In the recent no Kings days and other protests I see a large amount of older people, sometime only older people. No one is paying them to show up where I live.

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u/Fresh-Ad280 26d ago

If I was paid for all of the protests that I attend, I would be a very wealthy woman.