Alternative title: Millennial Republicans More Honest Than Boomer Contemporaries, Study Finds
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"Republicans are racist" ftfy
I think this is also a reflection on self awareness.
Big "I'm not racist, but..." energy from boomers
Could it also be that boomers, while racist, do not consider themselves to be racist? My racist boomer father would tell you he absolutely is not racist, but that everyone loves a racist joke.
You can make mental gymnastics why it is so, but the fact is that ye old boomers grew up in a racist world and is expected from them to be racist. Le millennials had 50 years of efforts and sacrifices to make the world less racist.
There are still areas in the South where people grow up in a racist world. Family are racist, friends are racist, school if not actively racist is doing nothing to dissuade it.
That's how I read it to begin with.
thats basically it.
We give a fuck how old racist shitbag republicans are?
My new political alignment chart compares racism with caring about being seen as racist.
So do we actually care anymore that being racist is the problem here or is it just finding new distractions such as intersectional infighting like ageism for hairs to split now?
If anyone my age says they're a racist to my face I will punch teeth in.
They probably don't have a lot of teeth to begin with.
What the fuck is this entire sentence?
David Hirsch, former Republican candidate for New York State Assembly, on X: “While there are a lot of positives in this poll, there are some disturbing trends being influenced by the Woke Right like rising Holocaust Denialism, and that 12% are antisemitic and 19% accept them. We can fix this and other issues.”
The Woke Right? Isn't that firstly an oxymoron, and secondly a label they would never self-apply?
Bibi used the term pejoratively when talking about MAGA folks who were criticizing Israel recently. Don’t know the term’s origins though, I’ve been seeing it more lately.
Woke right is groypers because they're "critical of Israel". Cause they're nazis
Woke Right huh
Zionism is Nazism, as such they're upset that some racists don't like them.
That is some premium copium.
This just sounds like more of that "millennials killed X" shit from 10 years ago. They've been dogging us since the start, man.
I'm not at all surprised by this, TBH. For all the dunking there is on boomers, they spent their formative years during the Civil Rights era, no?
And Gen Y (at least the younger ones) spent their formative years just when things like social media and forums and so on really got going. Where people are and have been trying to curate and groom more white supremacists. Often behind screen names, etc...
It's not that boomers aren't racist, they just don't believe they're racist. Their version of racism is very narrow, basically limited to calling for the outright murder of all black people. Anything short of that is just "normal" in their eyes.
Millenials have grown up with a more nuanced definition, though, so those racists understand that they're racist and also know how to hide and obscure it.
This.
Why would a millennial identify as a boomer?
Isn't that what we are to zoomers hah
Duh