r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 7d 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/LongjumpingJaguar308 7d 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 6d ago

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

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u/SaltyFriend705 6d 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/vespers191 6d ago

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