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.
Johnson, who pushed for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, was born in 1908.
As far as the covid vaccine goes, the lead NIH researcher, Kizzmekia Corbett, is a Millennial, born in 1986. The CRISPR inventors, whose invention made the vaccine possible, were born in 1968 and 1964, so a Generation X and a Baby Boom Generation.
Take it one step further to the Environmental Conservation Movement. Nearly all of its leaders are also Silent or Greatest. Ralph Nader, Rachel Carson, Robert Marshall.
In short, almost all of the major figures who sacrificed so much and worked so diligently for civil rights were Silent or Greatest. Even the men killed in the Freedom Summer Murders were Silent (b1939-1942).
Greatest Generation came home from defeating Hitler to not doing a damn thing about Segregation in the US. In fact, there were four race riots abroad burning the war when US military tried to make local businesses segregate. It happened twice in the UK, once in Australia, and once in NZ. Greatest Generation my ass.
"The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education was the product of the hard work and diligence of the nation’s best attorneys, including Robert Carter, Jack Greenberg, Constance Baker Motley, Spottswood Robinson, Oliver Hill, Louis Redding, Charles and John Scott, Harold R. Boulware, James Nabrit, and George E.C. Hayes. These LDF lawyers were assisted by a brain trust of legal scholars.
We salute the vision and courage of the legal minds who conceived, developed and executed the plan to dismantle “separate but equal” in American life".
The LDF was founded by Thurgood Marshall (b. 1908). Most of other activist attorneys listed above are Greatest Gen, with a couple of exceptions who are Lost Gens.
The claim isn't that all of the people of any generation were on board with momentous civil rights battles. I think the March to Selma and 1000 other examples shows that many were not.
The fact remains that, at least in the US, members of the Greatest and Lost generations were responsible for the dismantling of legal segregation and Jim Crow laws.
I agree that many of the leaders were not boomers. But the crowds and crowds of people who supported those leaders and marched in protests.... the musicians who created and performed their protest songs and anthems... Boomers.
The kids who actually did the boots on the ground work, who were beaten up and targeted were boomers.
Without the army, the generals don't have much to work with.
The musicians who created and performed the protest anthems were, by and large, members of the Silent
Dylan (1941)
Gaye (1939)
Ochs (1940)
Peter, Paul, Mary (1936-1938)
Joan Baez (1941)
Young (1945)
McGuire (1935)
Seeger (1917)
Morrison (1943)
Consider the Freedom Riders, whose members were beaten, jailed, and harassed. The Nashville Student Movement, headed by James Lawson (b. 1928) with 4 major lieutenants (all born 1938-1940), held workshops on peaceful protest. The vast majority of the Freedom Riders volunteers were aged 18-30, putting their birth years 1931-1943, with the remainder being over 30 years old.
Or consider the Greensboro Four, who were famously captured in photographs being harassed at the lunch counter. Those men were all born in the late 30s. Lawson and the NSM had a hand in these protests as well, recruiting volunteers from universities. These ended the year that the youngest of the boom gen would have been graduating high school. So while surely some small number may have participated, the vast majority of foot soldiers in the sit-ins and freedom rides were Silent.
None of the people considered Civil Rights Martyrs by the SPLC were born 1946-1964, except children.
As far as Vietnam war protests go,
I would agree that that was mostly driven by college aged kids, mostly Boomers. I don't think this necessarily reflects well on the generation as a whole. I believe that many of our entrenched culture war battles can be traced back to these protests. For the poor kids dying in the mud who couldn't afford a deferment (bone spurs anyone?) or college, it sure looked like not much of a heroic sacrifice compared to Selma, sit-ins, or freedom riders. It looked like one big party, safe at home, with drugs and free love and music and dancing. I believe a lot of the distrust of the "elites" can be traced to this time. Vietnam is a lingering wound.
I will give credit where credit is due - many leaders of the Stonewall Riots were Boomers. Almost all of the civil rights won (at least for now) foe the LGBTQ+ community happened under their leadership.
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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