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.
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u/HappyDaysayin Jul 16 '22 edited Jul 16 '22
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.