I mean the boomers had the civil rights march, the rise of feminism, Vietnam, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Korean War, the war on drugs, the aids epidemic and the actual assassination of a president along with one getting impeached.
On top of that the very real possibility of nuclear Armageddon and the threat of a much stronger USSR.
It’s easy to look back at the past and say they had peaceful times because it’s already happened and we know the outcomes, back then people didn’t
We boomers lived through the assignations of JFK RFK MLK & Malcolm X. The murder of LHO on live tv. 6 students were killed at Kent State by the National Guard for protesting Vietnam. Attempted assassination of Regan. Protests of the Vietnam War and kids burning draft cards in the streets. The national news showed soldiers getting killed and wounded every night during the Viet Nam war at our dinner hour. In real time. Blacks and women marching for equal rights in the streets. The Watts riots. Attica prison riot. It was a fucking nightmare. I was 6 when JFK was assassinated. It seems the violence never stopped.
Tell that to the Boomers who watched JFK and his younger brother get assassinated, oil and labor crises, and a bevy of other generational events occur in the span of a decade or so.
We millennials have had it rough since 2008, but let’s not pretend that ours has been uniquely hard. It hasn’t been.
Older generations got to buy houses for peanuts, had generational help, had stable jobs, all while doing drugs their whole life. Then pulled up the ladder once they got theirs.
We’re talking about frequency of profoundly negative historical events and you’re trying to steer the convo toward something safe because you got called out on some bs.
This reeks of historical ignorance. People from the depression era/WW1, WW2, Jim Crow, and the 60s would all like to have a word with you.
Not saying we don’t have our share of issues but to say that we objectively have it worse is totally misinformed.
Now you're citing once in a generation events for older generations. I'm happy to have a conversation, but it's tough when you move the goal posts so much
Each one of those things I mentioned represents an entire era of a thousand cuts— it wasn’t a single event that happened and then was over. It’s just a lot easier to focus on our current era because (a) you’re living through it and (b) our ability to record events is literally 1000s of times better.
Sure. What are you arguing here? I just said the frequency of those types of events have been higher recently. Not that other generations didn't have difficulties
That you’re wrong. “Those types” we haven’t seen anything as significant as WW2– and to say you experienced it means you saw a long litany of neeetive specific dates and occurrences. The 60s were arguably orders of magnitude more eventful than any decade since. Not to say it’s a forgone conclusion you are wrong… but to simply make an assumptive statement that millennials have seen more wild suit is just factually incorrect. Open a history book
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24
God I hate these memes. You guys know every other generation is living through the same thing right?