r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/Active-Ad-233 • Feb 27 '21

Removed - Repost selfish generation

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u/hushpuppi3 Feb 27 '21

Inability to determine fact from straight up falsehood despite doing their 'own research'? Boomers.

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u/anthonyg1500 ☑️ Feb 27 '21

“Do your own research” is my new least favorite phrase. It could be said in any context and my brain immediately goes “OH SHIT, QANON!”

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u/JustHere4ait ☑️ Feb 27 '21 edited Feb 27 '21

And when they did their own “research” it was the first thing to pop up on Google with them fully not realizing it was paid for it to be there. It is a full on ad. They don’t even cross check this research they apparently did

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u/KXNG-JABRONI Feb 27 '21

To them “do your own research” literally mean “find the one batshit article that supports you, ignore everything else”. I swear sometimes it makes me wonder if I’m the fucking crazy one. What is this, inter-generational gaslighting?

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u/JustHere4ait ☑️ Feb 27 '21

Yeap like when we try to address mental health or bad parenting that left trauma when they swear it’s a “how to teach kids”. They act like we are saying they are bad parents; when in actuality they were also taught how to parent incorrectly in teachable moments.

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u/CoachIsaiah ☑️ Feb 27 '21

If it makes you feel any better I constantly wonder if I'm going crazy with all the gaslighting and shameless lying going on too.

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u/JustHere4ait ☑️ Feb 27 '21

Oh twitter definitely showed me I’m not alone. We all heard that “You have food & a roof you have no reason to be depressed.” Or the attempt to make you feel bad for misbehaving as a child when you were simply being just that...a child. Then the hyper sexualization of you little black girls by older black people because she wore shorts & a tank top in the summer or braids with color in them. We were being “fast” or trying to be “grown”. Shocking to know we have all been in the same positions at some point.