All white baby boomers will be dead before the climate crisis they created and ignored makes the planet uninhabitable. Today, those same people are CERTAIN the U.S. will ultimately recover from the Christian White Nationalist govt overhaul they elected during their final years. White boomers, man.
💯💯💯 I'm a Gen X who has been waiting patiently for enough voters to outvote them. Then they went fascist.
White boomers, man. I hear you. However, I'm a boomer and I support everything good people were and are doing to protect the environment before we all burn to a crisp or are drowned in flash floods. In addition, I hope Christian Nationalism gets the heave-ho - and fast. And PS - I hate Trump.
I am a 71 yr old boomer and I have never voted for this. Do not lump us in the Trump basket,
"not me!" comments = white supremacy. www.whitesupremacyculture.info/characterist...
Did you vote for Tv guy Reagan? Who fed us to corp America via deregulation?
No. I did not.
Thank God.
Your statement reflects different. Did I miss something?
How so?
Exactly..I am a 67 year old boomer who worked in the environment for over a decade..I hate being lumped in to a category like this
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I can 100% guarantee I will be dead before life is extinguished on Earth. I’m a boomer, I think I have about a year left. My grandson will face unimaginable challenges because my generation tagged out.
Now now! I’m a Boomer too, don’t be such a pessimist. We had The Beatles, none of these other clowns did.
This close to the end of this experience I’m not concerned about dying, I’m fortunate to be in a place & time where my death will likely be uneventful, it won’t be in war, starving. I’m not a child, it won’t scare me. I won’t be in prison or wounded. I will have choice of an exist strategy.
I’m a retired nurse, I’ve been with my husband, father, mother & brother when they died. I’ve been with patients as well. The remorse I feel is how I’m leaving the place. How we are leaving the place. What a mess.
Not all of us. Don't judge a book by its cover, bucko.
Baby boomers? We made meals from scratch, most of us still do. We mend our clothes, not replace them. Do you even know how to darn socks or let out a seam? We bought jeans new, not prewashed, and wore them for 25 or 30 years, adding patches when necessary. You're barking up the wrong tree.
What an odd response. I suspect you’ll block me, shortly.
Not all white boomers are Christian nationalists- we came in a white skin, I didn’t get to choose my colour
And yet, you're centering yourself in a post that you claim is not about you..... www.whitesupremacyculture.info/characterist...
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The post wasn't about you. You responded "not me!" which made you the new subject (centering) Any other questions?
This is a rare combination of succinct and accurate. TY.
Then why is it called WHITE Christian Nationalism? You’re white. Deal with it.
Not all whites are Christian. wtf.
Nobody said they were but they sure did vote for this in the largest number.
I've also knocked doors for local democratic candidates. This is NOT FUN
Everyone should have their own statements on the T-shirts, speaking up and speaking out! What are you doing to try to save democracy?
I'm a white boomer. When I'm out protesting, I barely see anyone under 50, EVEN ON WEEKENDS. Protesting matters. I rarely go out without making a statement.
"not me!" comments = white supremacy. www.whitesupremacyculture.info/characterist...
I read the article. It seems accurate. There are evolutionary forces involved in our actions which will ultimately be the end of us, though they were important in getting us to this point. If we destroy most everything, those life forms which remain (cockroaches & ?)will go on to populate the Earth
I read the article. It seems accurate. There are evolutionary forces involved in our actions which will ultimately be the end of us, quite the opposite of the "intent". Ultimately, if we destroy most everything, whatever life forms remain (cockroaches and?) will go on to populate the Earth
Every time I go to a protest, I find myself wondering where all the people in their 20s and 30s are.
Right!?!???!?!!!
I’m 64 and unfortunately on the tail end of boomers. Lovely to be lumped in with folks so much older than me.
Bummer 😔
All the hit dogs hollering in boomer.
Frfr. They're acting as if their asses never complained at all about Silent Generations.
In 1964, white man LBJ signed the Civil rights act. And now, it’s mostly us old white boomers protesting for women’s reproductive rights, Medicare/Medicaid, SSA, climate controls, schools, etc - all of which benefit all citizens. Join us in protests instead of blaming.
Yeah, about that 💀. White Boomers weren't all in as much for civil rights as you want a cookie and a headpat from Black people. Y'all need to stop playing in Black people's faces as if we are supposed to be grateful for fixing bullshit white ppl created in the first place to hurt BIPOC ppl.
The ‘white boomers’ they see in those old photos were Jews.
Stop demanding Black people to help fix shit that white ppl caused in the first damn place. And let's not pretend that LBJ had to threaten white people in Congress to pass stuff or the shit was going to come out. Look at you wanting a cookie for the shit white Boomers and before created 💀.
Lbj wasn't a boomer. Y'all really seem intent on taking credit for the civil rights act, but the oldest of y'all was 16 during that time.
LBJ is complicated. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/ms... And frankly, it’s your turn. You saw the brutality and violence during BLM protests. Anyone who looks foreign is scared to go outside. I’m glad you’re standing up. But it’s your duty as a citizen to speak up and there are no paricipation trophies.
"Mostly old white boomers protesting for, etc." Sir or madam, sit your ass down and quit making up stories. It's GenX and younger doing most of the protesting. Y'all have had plenty of time to join Black and brown folks in protest, but I rarely saw you there.
LBJ was the last democratic President to win the majority of white voters precisely BECAUSE of the Civil Rights Act. So stop shaming the demographic that voted correctly. Black people staying home are doing us a favor.
And when he was elected, only the very oldest Boomers could even vote. I'm Gen X so I don't have the high ground, but the young white people supporting LBJ were the Silent Generation, like my parents, born during the Great Depression.
And LBJ said, when signing that act, "We'll [meaning Democrats] will lose the South for 3 generations." He knew white Southerners would revolt, and they did. Right to the Grand Old Party and the Southern Strategy, which is the foundation of modern conservatism.
How the hell is this true when 59% of white men, and 51% of men over 65 voted for trump?
LBJ, a known racist signed the CRA for votes and popularity nothing else. So 🛑 that. I’ve seen your “good trouble” protests and it’s not moving the needle. 🛑 PS Don’t ask Black people to fix a white problem we caused.
You’ve gotten so much more effective at calling out racism, over the last 6 months or so. Proud of you. ✊🏽
Thank you.
You got it.
To be specific only some white men in control of the resource extraction industries are to blame for where we are. There are many more white men that oppose the resource industries pollution of the air and water
www.whitesupremacyculture.info/characterist...
I tried some of those, but they were not compatible with my outlook on life. And when I was just a little shaver, I learned that individualistic people were deeply sick. When I was a very little kid, I had no good sense, I drank poisonous things and I ate buttons. Miracle I survived, really.
I don't disagree with the boomers as a group portion of this statement. Of course many in the group have fought hard against climate change but as a whole, you blew it My problem is that the effects are here. Boomers homes and lives are being destroyed as we speak. Yet still little action.
Please don't make blanket statements about any generation...not everyone in any given generation feels/is the same.
Certainly not all.
Only thing worse is the silent generation. They raised 'em.
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White boomers? That’s a pretty broad brush.
That was my point, but not as simply stated as your comment.
Will it though? Because it seems to be moving a lot faster than anyone predicted. I mean, when every article is predicated on warmer than, faster than, bigger than, more violent than, more devastating than, more often than, wetter than, drier than, melting faster than....
I agree. I'm 2 months shy of being Gen X, so technically last year Boomer. We don't get it. It's either a hoax or a lie or scientists are wrong because they were predicting an ice ice before. The shit they say to nullify science is bunk. And dangerous.
same, well gen jones and same.
Not all of us, not all of us.
Not all of us.
Yeo, white boomer here: The climate crisis started way before Boomers were born. Christian White Government has been on this Continent since about the beginning of the 16th. Century. PS: Neither of these Human issues are confined to this Country. Thought you should know👽
Certainly not all of us. We’ve been fighting since the 60s and are devastated over what our country has become! It’s never a good idea to generalize.
Okay, so white people need to stop with the "not all." As a group, white people ARE responsible, & arguing otherwise upholds white supremacy. www.whitesupremacyculture.info/characterist...
That's cool and all but most all of us cant ever own property still thanks to the real fun parties your gen threw while funding said parties with our futures. Like I'm glad you're not actively destroying things, but it's little consolation to most of us all
Again, dont generalize. I have grandchildren who are living this nightmare. Blame the republicans if you must cast blame. They have wrecked our country every time they are in office.
"my friends may have voted to create the nightmare my children experience, but the people that my friends voted for are the problem here, not my friends" ass take Like look, millennials ain't all good either. We created social media, which caused all this misinformation. I can admit that though.
Agreed. Never voted for a Republican in my life...except for...once in a local election in the 90s where Dem was a total screwup, and even that turned out to be a mistake as the Republican won and became an even BIGGER screwup. So there's that. Never again, lesson learned. 99.99% Dem voter since 72!
Please, now is the time to learn this lesson: Stating that *you* did things right avoids the reality that white people _as a group_ ARE the problem and rejects any responsibility for helping solve the problem: www.whitesupremacyculture.info/characterist...
How can white people as a group do better until each of us does better?
We do better as individuals by recognizing that white people as a collective are the problem & NOT undermining statements about white people with "not me!" responses. That's a start. Then we learn more about racism/white supremacy by reading folks like Lecia Michelle & working to be anti-racist.
If you want to do better, your first task is to ask yourself if criticisms of white people are about you. If they aren't, scroll by. And recognize your own defensiveness, and ask yourself why you feel defensive. If you sit with what Black people are telling you about their lives, you've done better
Being better means you're not just a 'good' white person; It means you're anti-racist. As a wp, my anti-racism looks like doing some work to educate people who look like me. I've learned a whole lot from just listening to Black people and sharing what I've learned.
I with people could notice that they’re feeling defensive and stop and consider why. Defensiveness stops any chance of communication.
* wish
Telling you about me: I've lived in Flint MI and an adjacent suburb for 49 years, in both places, on streets that had/have a little UN's-worth of families--black, white, multi-racial, Arab, Jew, Christian, gay/straight. On my current street, on my cul-de-sac, we have a black multi-generational 1/
2/ family, a young white couple, us white oldsters, a white husband and Black wife with a teen boy who skateboards, and a young Arab family with kids who laugh in their backyard pool. In both places, we bought homes, investing in decades worth of mortgages on streets and in neighborhoods that 2/
I’ve always lived in diverse neighborhoods and worked in a diverse community. It’s what makes us stronger and better
It's NOT about diversity. It's about making whiteness the center of every discussion, & rejecting what Black people are saying. Read the article, think about your response to a statement about a group - a statement not directed at you as an individual. www.whitesupremacyculture.info/characterist...
Give it a rest.
I feel the same way.
3/ were multi-racial, on purpose. I taught in a Flint-adjacent public school (classified "urban") for 26+ yrs, and had multi-racial classes full of great kids all that time. That's my experience, which I feel has been one of searching out living and working situations that promote racial harmony 2/
(oops, should have been a "3/" there) 4/4 rather than living and working with people who looked only like me. I don't feel defensive, I feel you misunderstood me. No offense meant.
These last four posts are the definition of defensiveness. If someone writes a posts about a collective group, & says, wow, 82% of that group voted in a way that was terrible, the defensive people are the people who didn't vote the way that 82% did, but who also need to post "not me!"
IF he was alive, I'm betting he's too chicken taco to have marched on Washington in the '60s or in any freedom marches in the 70s. Likely, he was one of the 4,500 watching the tanks earlier this month.
So convenient for us to have some idiot speak for all of us. So convenient for you to have someone to blame all your problems on.
Yep, the boomers are dying, then Gen X, then the millennials. The world keeps spinning. Blaming the boomers fixes what?
If some skank is too lazy or afraid to make waves, aka chicken taco, the repukeagain way is to blame somebody else.
Makes him feel relevant?
I don’t know. It is always easier to blame than to take responsibility
Harsh but it worries me.
fuKKKing bigot.
All of the "not ALL boomers!!!" replies 🙄
If we had a nickel for every "not all boomers" response @johnathanperk.bsky.social gets on his boomer posts, we'd have enough money to actually fix climate change...
They still don’t understand, do they! That they are the ones that did not put their group in check, they are the ones that did not hold their group accountable, they are the ones that perpetuated racism with their silence/going along with things from time to time. They don’t understand-work undone!
Thanks, but it's not just white boomers. Generalization sucks, it puts people into categories
Generalization is endemic on Bluesky. We need a united front, but many here are content to point at others.
That's how we got to where we are now, as a nation. Corporations have ruined democracy, long before I was born. They FN own us.
Not all of us! Signed, White Boomer
Yeah, no. Your response upholds white supremacy, and distracts from what white people as a collective have wrought. www.whitesupremacyculture.info/characterist...
Cool. We still can't have kids or own property or have healthcare due to your generation at large. Like dandy that you feel you didn't actively make things worse, but just saying "well not me!" doesn't change anything for any of us
A large share of boomers have worked hard to pass along a safe clean planet. But, since you’re lumping all boomers together I’ll lump you with the entitled spawn of those same boomers and tell you to fuck yourselves and get busy fixing what you don’t like instead of bitching and whining.
what does skin color have to do do with it?
We inherited a perfect world and f!!cked it up. Who wants nuance when you can blame a whole group of people. Maybe you could round us all up and drive us over the border.
What a gross generalization! 🖕
Bless your heart.
I’m equally traumatized by the reality that we live in, and ecstatic that I chose not to have children in this dystopian hellscape. 😩
Wow, one cohort of only one generation created climate change? Let me guess which generation you’re from….
So yeah about that lol. Even a white Boomer Historian called white Boomers out. The Smithsonian agreed with her lol www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...
Spot on !
White boomer here. Climate advocate, Trump hater. Don’t blame me.
"not me!" = white supremacy. www.whitesupremacyculture.info/characterist...
Also: "...what it actually does is detract from a larger, necessary conversation about collective accountability and perpetuates an individualistic worldview that diminishes the reality of white supremacy’s far-reaching impact."
White supremacy, yet losing their benefits just like everybody else.
* some white boomers! There, I fixed it for you.
Btw anger is a secondary emotion so you should probably deal with whatever has you feeling guilty.
*Incorrect You attention seeking imbecile.
Is it? So, you're going to tell me that in 40 yrs, ALL boomers will be dead? So, in your mind, no one lives past 100? Cut off year for boomers is 1964. Even if just one boomer lives past the next 40 yrs, You will be wrong. ALL implies everyone.
Are you writing a novel?
This person is coping with their impending death.
Lol OH so its an obituary then. Got it 🤣
Such snowflakes..
Can set my watch to the “not all” train arriving. 🤷♂️
It's an out of control freight train in these replies. They are so fuckin defensive. My mother always told me "If a person's first reaction is defensiveness, then know you're speaking the truth."
The #NAWW defense. You need to just stop.
Nope. Collective. We white people don't have a sense of Collective outside male dominated organized religion. That's bullshit. Statistically, we white people in the States are the biggest threat to the States. It's just math at that point.
You only "fixed" it for yourself. That blanket of "some" mitigates accountability of the collective of whites.
Exactly, I fixed it for myself. I'm not responsible nor am I to be held accountable for others actions!
Therein lies the problem with white people. That's the exact mentality that allows you to look away from the harm we do.
The harm that someone else does is on them, not me! I am responsible for myself, not others. Now, if someone is harmed that's different. I can lend a hand or help them with whatever their needs are. I cannot control the person causing the harm. I could, but I'd end up in prison.
I agree it isn’t your fault that other white people are white supremacists, but it is 💯 my job to make sure that I teach the truth to my children and challenge injustice when I see it. Be loud about race. If we aren’t then we are silently condoning their behaviors KNOWING it won’t be as bad for us.
That includes challenging my own biases, self reflection.
Your statement about going to prison - you know you could be jailed for helping someone who is enduring government sanctioned assault, disappearances, and torture - should be all you need to know. It is scary, it’s okay to be scared. Everyone is scared. It’s not okay to go along to get along.
I wouldn't be going to jail for helping those people, I'd be going to jail for putting a bullet into the government kidnappers.
I did teach my Daughter the right thing in fact, my son in law is Black. I just don't get why I'm called a racist because I won't bow down to the collective bullshit. Accountability is held individually not collectively.
Doing nothing = support. You believe accountability is held individually - are you doing everything you can as an individual to put a stop to this so the collective outrage can rest? Because if you are then why are you so upset by this thread. And if you’re not, then that is the problem.
Because it’s about actual lives, including your son-in-law. It isn’t collective bullshit. And as long as people wrote it off as such, you’ll always know your prison sentence will be shorter at the expense of generations. And unless you have Bezos money, you and yours will eventually make the list.
It seems like you have a perfect opportunity to have a conversation about race with your son-in-law. Ask him questions. Gain insight from his perspective. Listen & take it in. When too many individuals in a collective get it 'wrong' accountability is assigned to the collective.
Define harm. And now stop arguing and think
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You. Have. Learned. Nothing. Own your demographic. I’ll freely admit that white GenX has repeatedly screwed over the Dem party base. No point in saying “But *I’m* not a shithead!”: I know, work, and socialize with plenty of them, and couldn’t convince enough of them to vote against wh*te supremacy
Political party? 😂😀 I'm Anarchist! Fuck the Government! They caused all this division of mankind to begin with!
Nothing like judging a generation with one broad assumption. FMD 🙄🤨
Your generation is why our generation needs therapy.
Not all ignored climate change or voted for the orange turd. But this is why young people must get out and vote because the future belong to them.
Not all white boomers are clueless but we are outnumbered
"not me!" comments = white supremacy. www.whitesupremacyculture.info/characterist...
Agreed, although some members of my generation (Gen X), have been disappointing as well.
I’m going to post this under every Black posters posts that have white people predictably carrying water for white supremacy because the truth hurts their feelings. The fact that we can identify it as they are doing it yet they cannot is something else.
For another list os right-wing authoritarian traits: the-wawg-blog.org/can-there-re...
I HATE the term 'boomer'. FFS, you think you're the first people on the planet to CARE about the planet? I'll think of you when I'm writing my MP, planting bee turf and teaching my kids how to grow food.
White boomers didn’t create the climate crisis, but they ignored it.
GenX here and I approve this message. Five kids in my family - the two boomers are Christo-Nationalists who love trump and are freaking out about vaccines and chem trails
Gen X is the generarion who have supported Drumpf by 52-46, whereas Baby Boomers, whereas Baby Bommers broke for him by 51-48 %. www.aei.org/op-eds/trump... www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
There are tons more baby boomers though…
That's true: Baby Bommers and Millenials are the nig generations now, in terms of members. Amd, Millenials have surpassed Baby Boomers as the margest current generation
Duuude. Get Dave back. You’re not supposed to be postin’, man, and it’s the cops!
WHITE PEOPLE is the demographic that supported Trump by 53%, but do go on about how you are an individual and therefore not to blame. You're acting out a white supremacist trope on a Black man's page. "not me!" comments = white supremacy. www.whitesupremacyculture.info/characterist...
Wow, that's aggressive. I was merely pointung-out that contrary to the beliefs of many, Baby Boomers, as a whole, did not support Drumpf as much as Generation X members, taken as a whole, did. And, the other relevant generations also had significant percentages of support for him; have a great day!
Even 47% of Gen Z vozers supported Drumpf: www.newsweek.com/gen-z-pollin...
And, 49% of Millenial voters supported Orange Hitler: See--- Edison Research Exit Polls: AP VoteCast: Pew Research Center: CIRCLE (Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement):
Not reading all this. What’s your question?
Fuck you, bucko. Not all boomers are the same. We marched in the 70's against the Vietnam War, we had the 1st Earth Day in 1970, we fought for abortion rights. We are now in the streets protesting against this regime.
I’m a white boomer. You don’t know me. Don’t accuse me of encouraging the climate crisis. How narrow minded are you? Oh
First of all, Jay is an expert on racism, and works to promote anti-racism. Second, "not me!" comments = white supremacy. www.whitesupremacyculture.info/characterist...
Yes!
Not all boomers.
"not me!" comments = upholding white supremacy. If it's not about you, sweetie, scroll on by. www.whitesupremacyculture.info/characterist...
ALLLL boomers? PFOOOO. NOT by any means a fact. And helllloh. Climate change is an accumulation of many years before your Grandma and I were born. Learn more.
Buttressed by the extreme Progressive's purity test that either elected Trump or maliciously abstained. Signed: Gen Xer morosely watching all our efforts and lifetime identity disappear (worse than being ignored, by orders of magnitude).
I hate when people lump white baby boomers all together - like all of us don't care. Some of us care very much.
"not me!" comments = white supremacy. www.whitesupremacyculture.info/characterist...
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Not enough.
True
Lumping is problematic. I do wonder why common ground is so hard to find today… Seems there is no logic to lower numbers for solidarity. If we don’t unite evil will win… Today there is so many more issues than 1960s. We are in a deep rabbit hole… Basic equality and respecting each other should be ok
We, as black people, know all white people aren't racist,but we don't always have time to look for the needle in the haystack.
I hate when white baby boomers blame the younger generations for the problems YOU caused. PS If you cared Trump wouldn’t be in office, racism would be fixed and global warming wouldnt be so out of hand. JMO
Who is “blaming the younger generations?” I’m actually too old to be a baby boomer. My, and their, generation got Civil Rights and Voting Rights passed. We argued and won Roe v Wade. Those things have been lost, and that’s a tragedy for everyone.
Hmmm. . . People obviously beg to differ, Nancy. Have you ever voted Republican? And unless you're a POC, you should really hold back on the "we" crap in the Civil Rights movement. It's not your credit to take because it wasn't "your" fight, as you so righteously try to claim.
Hmmm… I have voted Republican, when there wasn’t a decent Democrat on the ballot. That hasn’t happened in a long while. I’m not a POC, but my family hosted POC’s in the late 1950’s, including someone who would become a Freedom Rider. What makes you better than me?
My morals make me better than you.
“Decent?” Just wonder which Republican candidate was a better choice since Nixon.
I’ve never found a decent Presidential Republican candidate, but a lot of people here seem bent on vilifying anyone who doesn’t immediately seem perfect. I don’t demand perfection. I demand diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Thank you for your candor. The age of snark is taking over on the platforms.
How do you think Trump got elected? It was your generation. You say you demand DEI, but you didn’t demand it hard enough or else we wouldn’t be here having these conversations.
Well, for starters, I don't put words in your mouth. . . Like you just did with me. And in the 50's you say. WOW. Should we all take a moment to be impressed?? 🤣🤣
So you voted for yourself? Makes sense. Republicans vote for the party. Democrats vote for the country. Saying you “hosted” a POC, which in itself is 🤯 is like saying I have a Black friend. Stop that.
Boomers and generations before them like yours. You say you passed the CRA when it was Black people who got that passed with their own blood, sweat and more. So stop lying. Your last sentence shows us all you only care for yourselves. Thats the problem.
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There’s still time for white boomers to be thrown out of the nursing homes to move in with their children under familial responsibility laws.
smh
Spare us, man. Stop blaming white boomers for the world’s problems. It’s tiresome at this point in time.
More here on 2024 election: navigatorresearch.org/2024-post-el...
2024 Vote by sex and age: Harris gained ground among women over 65 relative to Biden.
There is a racist subset of all his voters, regardless of color who eagerly voted for #Felon47. That includes most oligarchs.
Color?
Perspective: All voters for #Felon47, including many young voters, totaled 77,303,569. That’s only 22.7% of our total US population of 7/1/2024. Boomers are only 20% of population. The real problem is the wealthiest top 1%, the Oligarchs! Let’s stop blaming each other and blame them.
And what blame belongs to the 89 million eligible voters who didn’t vote?
White boomer here. Nice ageism. Boomers did not elect this current corrupt criminal to the White House. So incredibly much wrong with your finger pointing but why waste time arguing with insane.
So I assume yours has this AI thing firmly under control. Good to know.
Don’t agree white boomers elected him. A lot voted for him but a greater portion of younger people most affected didn’t vote at all or voted for him cause Kamala wasn’t pure enough for them
You can not agree, but a simple Google search to pew research would prove otherwise.
I would argue that they are experiencing the climate crisis today. They will be spared from the worst of it through.
This is obvious.
Here comes the “not all white boomers” crew… 😑
It's crazy lol. We are specifically talking about white American Boomers and we have international ones jumping in when it doesn't necessarily apply to them. I'm beginning to think that lead removal wasn't acted on fast enough by Silent Generations lol
The US will not recover.
Talk about lumpsumming, dude. Careful about what you generalize.
Boomers also hoard all the wealth, jobs, and houses.
This is my skin. Find the white* part! * “white” as in the background of this text.
Sun damage is not a race You are still white
Never was “white”. Just Irish. Ask any drunken Englishman.
Makes sense. The issue isn’t who is or who isn’t “white”. It’s who gets to make that decision.
The Irish actively begged to be considered white because they didnt want to be lumped in with non-whites despite being oppressed by the same people. So they became the guard dogs of the rich white people. Why do you think there are so many Irish cops? Just licking the boots of those whites in power
For the same reason there were lots of Irish fireman. It was dangerous and low paid but came with a pension. Italians used to also be non-white but they took a different route to “whiteness “.
Italians became cops too, for thr same reason. The yearning for siding with power just to gain a bit of power over non-white people
I’m a brawlin’ Irishman with a hard shillelagh. Divil a maan shall say a word against me! I don’t drink, I don’t need liquor to be irascible.
Irish! Irish is ten times worse than White!☘️
Irish Spring Commercial: Manly, yes. But you like it too!😃
All of it, including the freckles and your adherence to the "written word."
You do realize you have patches of vitiligo, right? Where there's no melanin at all? You definitely need to use high SPF sunscreen.
I wear blue lizard sunscreen and yep that’s all sun damage and age spots plus scars. And none of it is white.
You realize “white” the race, isn’t referring to color? Good god..
It’s like talking to a child. A dumb child, at that.
Of course I do. And I object to it on principle. The entire concept of race is utter 🐎 💩.
Ok, so why would I ask you this? Because it seems like you don’t appreciate this basic concept. You posted a close-up photo of your literal skin and asked where “white” was.. Why? Don’t answer that. Just pointing out how silly you’ve been, thus far.
My skin, as has so helpfully been pointed out by others here, is anything But “literally white”. And that apparently bothers some people because they would like to be thought of as ”white”.
you really need to moisturize.
Okay! Drinks on the house!
The white part is on the upper right. Neener Neener!😃
Holy shit, that’s embarrassing
You’re proving it with everything you’re writing here, you fucking idiot.
Woohoohoo, the temperature’s rising!
This is an utterly embarrassing thing to post. Your family raised you better than to be an embarrassment to them.
What could possible be embarrassing about pointing out the obvious truth?
The truth is you're a racist. And that's embarrassing, and you should be ashamed of being such an object failure of a human being.
Oh no they didn’t! The parents were a jackal, Mr. Thorn!😆
Imagine living to 41 and finding out you merged incompletely with your brother. Imagine you either orphan your child or undergo extensive changes. Imagine not knowing what privilege is and then losing it. You’re speaking out of ignorance. I did too at one time. Just accept it. It doesn’t hurt.
I’m still unclear as to what it is you are objecting to.
Your dim behavior.
Again, your complaint is nonspecific. I find that folks like you get all heated over something you don’t understand and then fizzle out when you realize you look foolish.
Oh no, I’m just calling you names now. Because you came to MY posts and have been randomly inserting your simple thoughts into random threads, as if anyone asked for much less wants your obtuse understanding of these issues. You can go away WHENEVER you want. But you don’t.
Thanks for clarifying your lack of content. .
Generally speaking, the fact that people who put in less labor to comprehend the world, take it upon themselves to make it worse for everyone.
More word salad.
You’re just dumb.
That’s a fancy way of saying you don’t think good.
Your willful lack of self-awareness.
As demonstrated by….. ? Keep going, you almost made a point.
As demonstrated by your dim replies.
Non sequitur
Look, Pappaw Budweiser, I don’t really have time for all this. I’m sure there’s some young pup willing to entertain helping you jerk off to yourself but we ain’t all retirees sitting around waiting to die. Best of .. whatever.
Haven’t had a beer in 15 years. But thanks for the sentiment.
Hell, stick with it. Those coins don’t earn themselves 🫡
found it
My skin looks just like that and I’m white. So… Do you have red hair like me too?
If your skin looks like that you aren’t “white” either. Yes, I have red and brown and mostly gray hair.
You just described me. I just called you out in detail. You only deny it because if you admit it that would make you accountable and wrong in the same breath. So…
Pretending that there is a thing called “white” is only proof that there is a thing called “white enough “. Drawing the line is the racist part.
White people like us created the construct of race but only boomers like you deny that while benefiting from its privilege.
Not only do I NOT deny that, I believe it entirely.
But your responses say otherwise. Make up your racist mind
Read for content and interpretation is up to you.
No everyone’s it. It’s not interpreted.
All this to say nothing. While lying.
I Said “white”’is not a color that humans come in. Which word gives you the most trouble?
You can think that all you want because your WHITE privileged life. It’s not color. It’s race. Noting gives me trouble I could spot your racist persona with my eyes closed.
The toddlers in pre-school are getting mad!😱
Twenty Something: Oh yeah? Well a famous director once told me I was the real-life basis for Hurley! I have wolf posters in my room!🤓
You can sure tell the twenty-something’s around here, can’t you? Their “arguments.” 😆
“On Mars, the tress look like arm hairs.” …. Ray Bradbury
If you’re unnecessarily mean and sarcastic, You are White! And chances are, you’re a twenty-something!😂😂😂😂😂
I’m a 74 year old Retired tech guy with Scottish, Irish & Welsh ancestors. Pressed pause on the booze 15 years ago. My greatest pleasure in life is upsetting smug people with the literal truth.
Being 74 years old and too stubborn, too comfortable, and too inherently racist to be able to learn when the truth is pointed out to you is not a flex. 74 years on this planet and the truth is still a stranger to you. You should be embarrassed.
Feel free to actually put that so called “truth” in your next reply rather than merely referring to into it.
It's not my job to teach you what you refuse to learn. I'm not a jackass whisperer. Good luck.
Thanks for putting this so succinctly. Do you mind if I use it for my next online interaction with my local politician and his lackeys?
Feel free. I'm just a messenger. 💛
You’re a great messenger, so nobody is going to shoot you when you bring bad news.
You apparently think you have some purpose; but it is, at present, unfathomable.
What is fathomable, a deep sea diver?👩🚀
Oh snap!😆
I was scolding that Raccoon guy, oops, wrong post.🫢
You're good with me! ☺️
Yes, I didn’t mean you, Celtic guy. You’re okay.
I’m 71 years old, and I’m pretty much Okay!😃
“This is easier than when I was president.”
Psst! I’m really Joe Biden!
What, no Breton!?😱
Boomers did not create the oil industry. Nor did they invent the rapacious capitalist culture that has done so much to degrade the country. And the unholy alliance between right wing evangelicals and the GOP came from, or at least became solidified in the Reagan years. Reagan was also not a boomer.
Some of us have been fighting for social Justice, our climate and every other issue you care about for decades and decades. You could learn something from boomers before we go. There were climate problems before we were born.
Pretty sure they all plan to be dead which is why they want too fill up the planet for the rest of us 🙃
It’s true
Stop. Saying. "All".
Worst thing boomers did was breed entitled children. We definitely should not have done that.
Yeah thats what Silent Gens said about y'all lol.
You can't be serious.
Lol! I’m not. But we have to stop judging each other by our birth year. We are all in this together. I love the children I bred!
I didn't vote for that moron EVER!
Please don't lump us all together. This white boomer has been fighting for this planet since the 70's.
Same!
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Fuck you.
I believe you’re demonstrating the characteristic of defensiveness here.
You started the conversation by demonstrating individualism.
Same!!
SAME!! With intention, at sacrifice of ease & $ rewards, referred to as crazies for considering the Environment 1st & long before most of the prejudiced blame the boomers for all our ills were born
If it don't apply, let it fly.
Black people know that there are some white people who will do them no harm, but we don't always have time to look for the needle in the haystack.
Amen, sister!
Seriously? Did you have to go "not all"? Lump you all together? Like how wh people have lumped Black people together and much worse for 400 years? If you didn't do it, he's not talking to you. Just keep scrolling.
Hey Good Job Keeping the DIVIDES divided... Let's be sure blame always falls on a large group of Others so we don't work together on solutions. HATE RULES! Right? It's All their fault! Rotten group of people should all just be maligned, hated, deposed despised. Then the New Group can Fix All
Blame the climate crisis on those (especially older White people) who fail to vote a straight Democratic ticket in every election.
From everything I've seen, every legitimate source, and every heinous interaction I've had with Gen Z and half of millennials, it's the younger set that failed America, and in doing so by 1 issue voters or abstentions, that failed. It's not conjecture, it's a provable fact.
I agree, having had heinous interactions with today's socially-unskilled young people and fruitless arguments with single-issue voters and election skippers, but most less-educated older White men vote Republican: ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-v...
Sin is more dangerous than.
I'm a boomer & believe me when I say I am NOT happy about having to spend the last decade of my life under the royal decrees of Christo-fascist shitstain who's in the WH now. Seeing everything we've worked so hard for over the last 50 years get peeled back is infuriating & heartbreaking.
Cool. You are in the minority, among your peer demographic groups.
I know. It's soooooooooooooooooo sickening.
We founded Earth Day, just fyi, and figured out yrs ago just how truly powerful Big Oil is, but are still trying our best to bring change, now for our kids and grandkids (and in my case great grandkids).
That's an awfully broad brush smear, Jay. I was involved in the Green movement since high school and never voted for a Republican President Sincerely, an old white guy.
OTOH, my mom is a white Boomer, and she's more liberal than I am (GenX).
The thing is, the climate crisis is already here! And the younger MAGAts will be feelin it royally. The thing is, the cult doesn't care until the trouble is butt up on their doorstep...
This white boomer marched in the First Earth Day demonstration (long before you were born), and has been fighting climate change before it was even called that. Stereotypes aren't helpful, especially those based on race or age.v
"not me!" comments = white supremacy. www.whitesupremacyculture.info/characterist...
Stop & listen. It’s about putting your individualism aside for the collective. That is the only way real change is going to happen. Us white people are still the majority in this country, so what WE do as a whole is important. Messaging needs to address the collective so we start thinking that way.
Indigenous Water Protectors are who we have to thank for standing against climate change before it was ever on the radar of yt people who use it as a pat on the back for activism Y'all colonize everything. If you actually used collective action and held your ppl accountable change would've occurred.
This white boomer agrees! Blue thru and thru! 💙
Don't let your anti-white racism get in the way. Majority of House & Senate are 50~59. Baby Boomers are 61~79. You repukeagains are ending FDA, EPA. How many times did you vote for the orange rapist? You represent the heritage foundation?
There is no such thing as reverse racism.
Too much free time? bsky.app/profile/real...
The most selfish, lucky, and useless generation.
They also say “kids have it so good” of people who graduated into the 2008 recession. They have no ability to see others perspective.
Think there were quite a few others involved, CHRISTIANS, immigrants from dictatorships who didn’t see the dictator in waiting, billionaire tech bros & finance hoes so fcking greedy they choose profit knowing death for their families from the climate disaster is imminent, power hungry MAGA GOP POS
Please don't generalize. There are many factors responsible, just the way that there are differing beliefs in your generation.
I feel so ashamed to be one. I sure as hell didn’t vote for this.
There are a lot more potential voters younger than boomers who do not vote. They are equally to blame.
I agree with the “lead in their pipes and water” theory more and more every day. It’s the only explanation for such stunted, obtuse outlook…😂
You are just wrong to put us all in that category. FU
You want kudos and cookies – instead of doing and continuing the work. You know racism is out there, but now that you’ve done something – the other racism should not be talked about and definitely shouldn’t seem to include you as part of that group, is that what you’re saying?
You should see white people for what they are, instead, you take offense of something you claim you weren’t a part of.
A lot of white Boomers do this. Declare in the most righteous terms that they were not a part of the system which benefited them immensely while they did nothing to lift poc or others up. They shut the door behind them & now want absolution for it all. Fuck them. Seriously.
They’re even selling their houses now & spending their kids’ inheritances on world cruises & Mexican condos, all while the world burns around them. They don’t call them the “Me Generation” for nothing.
Defensive! Collectively, you are all to blame – so stop taking it so personally on an individual level. There are individuals that tried! But as a group you all helped it remain ingrained, cruel, and thriving!
Not all. I’m a very liberal white boomer attending all the protests in my very red state. Generalizations can get you into trouble. I get your point but….
Don't lump us all in like that. ALL the white Boomers I know voted for HER! When I go to protests, there's plenty of white boomers carrying signs. Even my parents would have been out there.
Remember:Europeans/European descendants in America or whites have no moral lessons to teach. They’re the most immoral & inhumane people on the planet! Stop teaching—start learning.You have been the worst stewards of humanity known in recent history! Euros/descendants comments should have NO impact!
Collectively!!! You never check your group members and here we are! Wild and not free…enslaved minds and ignorant white people still trying to push BS! Collectively—you don’t hold each other accountable! Trump’s character is a reflection of you/group—your ancestors in Europe are starting to see it!
Oligarchy man - and the willfully ignorant that fall for their propaganda.
Delusional deplorables
It’s not any one generation that did this to you, man. It’s the billionaire, top 4%, that do all the damage.
I do not GET what became of my generation. Peace and love replaced by $$$$$$$$$
Yup! Very well said
You have an instant follow from me. We in Gen X, Xennials, Gen Z and Millennials need to protect you at all costs. We are gonna cut a bitch for you ❤️
Holy shit a white Boomer that gets it. Thank you! ❤️
It's like a unicorn 😳
We need to protect her at all costs ❤️
For real!!!
yeah, it's been a real shock
You were never peace and love. Ever.
That’s a follow
Well, nominally …. Anti war and “free love” etc.
Not bashing you but realistically, anti-war protest was anti-draft. Most (not all) anti-war protests petered out by 1971 with the projected end of the draft law, which Nixon extended. 1971 draft was almost 100k, less than half that in 72, and fewer than 700 drafted in 73, the year the war ended.
I don’t debate you on that.
While the free love and hippies loom large in popular culture, the actual counterculture was small. Mainstream culture was still pretty conservative and repressive - Deadhead stickers on Cadillacs is a catchy lyric but less so a reality.
Not all white boomers, but I agree our generation has totally screwed things up for my son and younger generations. But not all of us are complete fuckers - just too many.
Old white tree hugging hippie here. The generations before use didn't care. We from the 60s and 70s cared about many things, very much. The environment was high on the list. We boomers are being misjudged.
White Republicans. They even wrote about what they were going to do and published it at the 1980 CPAC Convention. Yep, 19 fucking 80. Republicans did this. Hold them accountable.
Boomer here! I did not vote for the fat old white man!
Doesn't matter to a racist. White=Guilty.
Nope. As a group, white people are responsible for the issues in this country. Your comments uphold white supremacy without offering any solutions to the real issues. www.whitesupremacyculture.info/characterist...
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This retired white boomer's work on energy conservation prevented the consumption of over 50 GWh of electricity in 10 years. What have you done?
Some of us white boomers have been addressing climate issues for 30+ years. Industrial Revolution did wonders for our lifestyle; climate change is the harshest result. Prevent Mitigate Adapt
Not All White Boomers, man!!!!
Hi Jay, You are pointing out problems. Words matter. Deeds matter, more. What are you doing to help improve & repair society? Demonstrating for the USA? Are you volunteering in your community to support: Arts? Education? Health Care? Politics? Religion? Sports? A white, 69 boomer has-is-will.
We are also the ones who marched for civil rights and women’s rights. It’s foolish to label all people in a generation as assholes.
"not me!" comments = white supremacy. www.whitesupremacyculture.info/characterist...
Not all white boomers fit that description. I’m sure many do, but not this one.
I am white and a boomer, Jay Perk, Esq. I never voted for trump or any Christian White government. Not one time, ever. Go hate on some other demographic, man.
Seriously, I’m so tired of people blaming us boomers for all that is wrong with their lives or the world. There’s plenty of blame to go around for all generations.
I'm an old, white man who thinks old white men have been driving the world off a cliff for more than 40 years.
Hippie boomer here. These are the guys we hated in high school. They have always been monsters.
What guys?
Boomer white guys.
would I be correct to say most boomers always sucked? there were hippies but they wern't ever a majority
As a boomer, yes. All the hippies I knew are dead. As I look back, yes.
I hated everyone in high school, even the teachers.
We had a group of hippies, but I quit. Got a GED. They had experimental schools. Everybody went there. Authority drove me nuts.
I liked Flower Power very much, but I liked Punk Rock a tad better.
I loved punk. 80's music killed. Cleveland, Ohio, in the flats. Saw Skinny Puppy, Swans. It was in tiny venues. We must have crossed paths in the mosh pit. I'm a huge woman got stinking drunk and dove off the stage, smashed 3 panty liners. Forgot I had spikes on.
I once saw the lead guitarist of Devo jump off the stage, and a bunch of fans piled up on him. It was mayhem. He got back up on stage, hurt and seething with rage. He wanted to kill some guy who punched him, but that guy ran away.
What a blast. Beer bottles goin, into heads, then ya get in the mosh pit at Sonic Youth and Football halfbacks slammin ya. It was grand.
Yes. My girlfriend from Mississippi saw a mosh pit at Lollapalooza and ran away in terror!😂
Lady, The Ramones! The Sex Pistols! The Dead Kennedys! They have Nothing, the poor youngsters. What. Coldplay.😱
It was unbelievable. The 70s were good, but the 80's. Music , live most nights. Cost nothing to see them.
Well, I tuned out and dropped out in the Eighties. Didn’t like Disco at all. I never bought a record again until Soundgarden and Nirvana came along. I was very disillusioned that the tombstone of Punk was “Owner of a Lonely Heart!” Yes! No!
No! I hated that song. I bought the Doors first, then Santana, Abraxis. Nirvana, yes.
Oh, you mean “Owner of a Lonely Heart.” Yes, it was terrible. I went to their shows when I was a teenager. Even then, I began to suspect that they were just a little pretentious.
Wait! Surely you don’t mean “Black Hole Sun!” You didn’t like the melting Doll faces and the bugs! The Sixties were my real time, The Renaissance. Beatles, Stones, Who, Hendrix, Doors, Zappa, Jefferson Airplane,Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Country Joe, etc. These were the noblest records of them all.
Hold on a minute. I'm a boomer and I despise the current administration. Boomers were the first to protest pollution by corporations. I don't know how old you are but history didn't start with your birth.
My white baby boomer parents are all dead now. STFU.
GenX here... We're ALL guilty. Bad climate practices are, and always have been, the status quo. Including and ESPECIALLY now. The "people who started this" have been dead for nearly a century and they aren't your boomer grandparents.
Considering the presidents we've given you, I've got to admit we haven't done much to make the world a better place. Do you know what percentage of the 77 million votes for Trump came from boomers?
I’d describe it as white *Republican boomers* because it’s the Republicans who have always denied climate change and also always supported Christian white nationalism. It began in earnest, with Regan Republicans.
With Regan Democrats. Yanno the old white guys in the upper Midwest who gleefully voted for the guy who promised to end welfare queens and affirmative action. Lost on them was the part where he’d just ship union jobs overseas and end welfare at all.
Not me! This boomer has been fighting for the environment her whole adult life. I voted for the women!
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Thank you. The "not me" crap has to end.
We are exhausting, every single white one of us.
Overgeneralization
Uh nope not accurate
This white boomer is positive I will die before the U.S. gets its shit together again. Even a wee bit together.
Baby boomers brought you the civil rights act, the voting rights act, end of the military draft, the epa, unleaded gas, the organic farming movement, and the end of the Vietnam war though years of protests. I’m sure there’s more, but go ahead and blather on.
Thank you for standing up for us. These kids need to watch The Trial of the Chicago 7. Oh, and we also forced Nixon to resign!
So much was done by the baby boomers. Not as much as FDR, but a lot of accomplishments.
If blaming boomers for the evils of the world lets you sleep at night, then you do you I guess.
I haven’t ignored it.
