queermunist

>When your antifascist coalition includes Zionist fascist collaborators.

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Social anxiety + extroversion is its own special hell.

It started in 1971 under Nixon. The guy who said "You start out in 1954 by saying, “N*gger, n*gger, n*gger.” By 1968 you can’t say “n*gger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N*gger, n*gger.”

Nationalities at least have a basis in actually existing nations. There's literally no basis for generations.

Age cohorts exist. People born the same year have stuff in common. Generations aren't like that, they're just arbitrarily defined over arbitrary time spans.

Incarceration rates started skyrocketing in the 70s and only got worse from there. Did you forget about the war on drugs and who the primary victims were?

The meme is that boomers had it easy. Black boomers objectively didn't. Black people have never had it easy in this country.

If you live during a time when things get better that, by definition, means you also lived during a time when things used to be worse.

It's completely arbitrary, especially towards the edges of the time period. A boomer born 1946 had a wildly different life than a boomer born 1964, and a boomer born in 1964 has way more in common with a Gen Xer born in 1965.

Age cohorts are real, but "generations" are just arbitrary groupings.

Okay, but my point, that Black boomers didn't have it easy, is still true.

Also generations are bullshit - they were made up by advertisers! They're totally arbitrary.

Zero clue how you got this from my comment??? Ending Jim Crow was good, but claiming that Black boomers had it easy is fucked.