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My boomer parents will still say they had a great time working for us. Fuck boomers and silent generation and the generations before that
Thank you for not saying “Greatest”. They were boomers, GI and Silent. “Greatest” is a book title and fellates this group over WW2 and the post-war boom while ignoring everything else they’ve done.
Well I think beating the Great Depression, Hitler , and Tojo at the same time is pretty good, as far as generations go. Also, the Korean War. And many of the Civil Rights Movement leaders were in that generation.
They were calling baby boomers selfish before millennials even existed.
They also fucked up the air, water, and earth for centuries. They put policies in place to hoard as much cash as possible and pulled up the ladder behind them while refusing to acknowledge the damage their policies caused and basically called following generations pussies while holding their heads under water.
Yeah, they beat Hitler and the rest, but those old farts are the same ones who voted in right-wing evangelical politicians, because those are the ones telling the “kids” to shut up, know their place, and suffer.
My parents are/were “greatest”, and they have no problem shitting on current generations, minorities, or “alternative lifestyles” and letting everyone flounder, because they got theirs. My dad served in both WW2 and Korea.
Wanna credit them with killing veterans asking for a bonus in the Bonus Riot? Wanna credit them with forming the American Nazi party? The same generation that ”solved” the Depression is the same generation that started it. American geopolitical fears drove the Korean War. Don’t just cherry pick their victories and ignore the policies and fuckups they did that caused many problems.
You seem confused as to which generation is which. The Greatest Generation is mostly dead. If they're alive, they're not shitting on current generations, they don't even know what "Gen Z" is.
They definitely didn't start the Great Depression or the American Nazis party. The oldest were 30 years old when the Depression started. The youngest were 3. They had no political power and were the first generation to grow up with electronic media (radio) and communications (telephones).
The entire weight of the world was dumped on them as they were just starting out in life. They were just like Millennials. Your parents may have been shit heads but JFK and MLK Jr. were not.
Boomers are the results of GI generation and the Silent Generation. My generations are not confused, I also don't pigeonhole entire generations into tiny boxes and only attribute what fits in that little box to them, which is why I chose multiple facets of the generations between the early 1900s and the world wars. You don't suddenly lose all wins/losses because you were born a minute after midnight on the day the generational names got plopped down. Regardless of any point of the discussion, we should not be calling any group the "greatest", no author seeking to push his book (at the time) to the top of the NYT bestseller list should get the fortune of manipulating generational names to ensure sales.