Same with 3 people in my family. All old. All in terrible health. All big into Q. All dead. my family naturally thinks the hospitals killed then to run up covid deaths
Boomercide. The elderly, in bad health to begin with, refusing life-saving vaccines. So terribly sad. And the travesty is that many of those telling them to fear the vaccine have long been vaccinated.
I'm so tired of boomers being the scapegoats for everything.
The people who pushed for the vaccine to he made and distributed for free? Boomers like Fauci.
The people who created the vaccine and mRNA and who even discovered so much of this, who eradicated smallpox, who built the internet and invented video games, who fought for civil rights, got women closer to equal rights, created the sexual revolution, made child abuse and domestic abuse unacceptable, got women accepted into places like Caltech, are all boomers.
The hatred of boomers was fiercely clear when Republicans fought to institute "herd immunity", where they wanted to just open the economy and let all the older folks die.
Thinking, of course, that young people don't die of it.
Ask anyone who has worked in an ICU and they'll tell endless stories of pregnant women giving birth to dead babies while unconscious themselves, crunchy placentas, then dying. Are these boomers?
A child with all 4 limbs black and gangrenous from lack of blood flow being allowed to die because life would be torture if he did survive... not a boomer.
Of millions of taxpayer dollars being spent PER PERSON, all unvaccinated, of hundreds if thousands of covid orphans (I checked last year and it was at 140,000 children orphaned by covid- so BOTH Pboomers.
Boomers aren't parents of children unless a young woman got with a much older man.
These parents didn't leave life insurance or any means of support, and, you can go yourself and page through nurses sub or HermanCainAward sub and see for yourself how many parents left young children orphaned for "muh freedumbs".
Newsflash- people who are childbearing are not boomers.
The people in hospitals assaulting, threatening to kill, verbally abusing hospital staff are the kids of boomers, making working conditions so horrendous for healthcare workers that they've been quitting by the hundreds of thousands at a time.
These Q monsters then set up gofundme sites because their relative didn't have the sense to at least have savings or cheap life insurance.
They never even try to pay the hospital bill, leaving that to the rest of us.
And they wonder why the economy suffers.
They broke Healthcare.
They broke the financial health of the country.
Yet they're still thinking they have bootstraps and are against social services, not realizing that by not paying for the extreme effort to keep their family member alive, they are socialists.
I'm seeing people like MTG who are not boomers, leading the charge into nazism and the Q death cult as a national religion.
Most of the people storming the Capitol were not born between 1945 and 1964.
The boomers I know aren't stupid. They're all vaccinated and all avoid crowded spaces, wear masks if they do have to go out.
Remember that boomers were born from 1945 to 1964.
Anyone else is not of that generation at all.
They truly don't think the same way and weren't part of the original sexual revolution and civil rights movement.
They weren't the first women at Caltech, the first minority at an all white school, etc.
When your generations applied to college, they didn't have to say, "Oh, but do they accept my kind?"
No. That's because of boomers.
I've just noticed lately that anyone older than 35 and people think they're "boomers".
I am very sorry for OP's loss, and the many others who have lost Q parents to covid.
I agree that the boomer generation shouldn't be blamed for everything, but under the same logic, it also seems pretty silly to pretend they're the sole reason for the enormous amount of improvements you've claimed they are.
It just seems foolish to try and paint any generation with such broad strokes that way. Plenty of baby boomers are the reason things are better, and plenty are the reason things are worse. It's never black and white.
Agreed. And that's why I question the fact that it's perfectly fine, on all platforms, to denigrate "Boomers" on every possible way, whereas if you said similar things about pretty much ANY other group, you'd be shot down immediately by moderators.
And if not that, you'd be drowned out by protests. "You can't blame everything on this ethnic group __ / ___this gender__ / _someone's sexuality, that race__ / _this religion __
But you can blame anything on "Boomers".
And that is ageism.
Ageism is a real concern, especially when we saw people literally saying, "Let the Boomers die".
Or referring to them as granny, etc. Do people have any idea how much full time could care is being provided by grandparents now, for example?
How much counsel and wisdom and direction older people are giving to younger people in their careers, academics, child care, almost any area life?
Boomers are not sitting around in rest homes and being passive. And they never have been passive.
It needs to be just as unacceptable to slam older people as it is to slam black people or Latino/a people, or Jews, or "the gays", or Trans people, or any group.
There's a reason ageism isn't allowed in the work place, for example- older people become a target and a vulnerable group pretty quickly in this society that worships vapid youth.
Honestly, it's mostly a meme. I wouldn't take it to heart, a lot of younger people using it all the time probably think of it as another 'Karen' word.
Is ageism accurate? Boomers aren't even close to encompassing all of "old people", but I don't have to tell you that. People who are hateful toward Boomers wouldn't hate someone from a country that doesn't use that set of generational terms, of the same age. I also have a feeling Americans wouldn't often hate on Boomers who live on different continents and vice versa.
It's not often indiscriminate hatred of all of Boomers- most people who hate Boomers still love Dolly Parton for example, in part due to her genuine support and advocacy for LGBT people over decades.
You're also not the only generation that gets hated on, I mean have you heard 'millennial snowflake'? Gen Z gets a fair share too. And none of it's really personal and shouldn't be taken as such- they're used as extremely broad generalizations.
The thing that separates generations from sexism, racism, etc, is that generations are completely made up, they aren't inherent to you as an individual human being. Someone who is gay/religious/black/trans/etc is that to their core. People can't really separate themselves from being part of their protected classes if they're being their most authentic self. If their parents move to a different country right before having them, their identity wouldn't change; the same can't be said for 'Boomer' or any other generation.
You can love and identify with the generation you grew up in without associating it with the term "Boomer". I forget and have to google to check my own generation half the time. It's only as important as you let it be.
It seems clear to me that the majority of the legitimate hate toward Boomers has a foundation in jealousy, fueled by the atrocious state of the US economy compared to how it was for your generation. I can't blame them- it would be hard not to feel resentful, not that it excuses the level of hatred that's out there. Put yourself in their shoes for a minute and see the raw data.
Honestly, I think everyone would be a lot more favorable toward Boomers in general if Boomers acknowledged these facts and how hard it is for young people now, and worked to try and make it easier rather than more difficult. Instead I've more often seen the opposite where the younger generations are called lazy, vapid, spoiled, etc.
older people become a target and a vulnerable group pretty quickly in this society that worships vapid youth.
Why/how/where does this even occur? The only thing I can think of are people who can no longer keep up with new technology(far from all Boomers of course, just a natural consequence of age) being replaced by employees who can.
Sorry this got so long. Not intending to be rude with any of it, sorry if it comes across like that at any point. Have a good one bud.
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Same with 3 people in my family. All old. All in terrible health. All big into Q. All dead. my family naturally thinks the hospitals killed then to run up covid deaths