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Here we go again, focus on the class of people who did this, not an entire generation. That would be like saying all millennials are school shooters. All generations got out of college and thought they were doing good while the millionaire/billionaire class widdled away at everyone's rights so they could make more money and pay less taxes.
“Egads! A short, simple joke that isn’t 100% fair to every party mentioned! Instead of enjoying the obviously oversimplified gag, I better write an exasperating comment!”
It's not the joke I'm responding to, I actually liked it. Don't you think the anti-(insert generation) is a distraction?
It can be, but in this case, no. It isn’t serious or mean-spirited.
Again, the joke I'm cool with, the person I was responding to seemed mean spirited to me. Maybe I read it wrong or I'm grumpy about the anti-generation stuff being so prevalent. IMO, generational hate is a made up shitpost by the upper classes.
Know who else generalizes huge groups of people and defends themselves with "it was just a joke"? Racists. Homophobes. Transphobes. That the company you wanna keep?
That’s a pathetically bad comparison. This distinction is key:
Bigots often makes “jokes” that are serious but hide under a thin veneer of humor, and those “jokes” are often discriminatory.
Some people might have trouble telling the difference. I don’t.
I don't think your joke was that bad, what I took issue with was your justification for it. I'm sick of hearing "it's just a joke, get over it". It's rarely used by good people.
Wow, I had no idea that making fun of boomers is the same as transphobia. Thank you for blessing me with your wisdom
It's not the same. But using a line out of the transphobes' playbook is a really fucking bad look.
I mean, legally it is in the US at least. Our age discrimination protections are only for 40+ people. I'm 40+, but I still feel like that's an absolutely unacceptable limitation on protections. I can legally refuse to hire somebody under 30 "because they're stupid millenial kids" but not a gen-X "because they're entitled"
I used to feel the way you do. Now I'm a 40-something feel a lot less that way. You know why?
The same reason I blame "good cops" that watch bad cops murder a black man while politely saying "please stop, aren't you afraid of your dash cam catching it? Just let him go man"... but don't actually intervene.
The generation we're mad at aren't the ones who did this. They're the ones who said "the billionaires are right. None of us are working hard enough for them. I'm going to teach my children to work harder for less". The boomers/silent (even early-X) are the enablers, and enablers are guilty, too.
I'll put it this way. I know a guy who thinks his daughter is lazy because she won't pick up minimum wage work part-time at a factory to supplement her 6-figure salary. "It's not about the money, it's about work ethic". I know another, a small business owner that's mad he can't keep a head chef at his mom&pop restaurant for $18/hr "because this generation is all too lazy". The living wage here is in the $22/hr range. I know a third small business owner (this one technically a millenial) who gives his workers paycuts each year then calls them lazy princesses when they refuse shifts that require them to drive 2 hours at minimum wage.
NONE of them are the real villain. But ALL of them are still responsible.
So what are you doing about them taking away our rights then right now? You are an enabler right now if we go by what you're saying.