myrmepropagandistJul 30, 2023

I've been trying to find the right way to articulate this-- but the folks on the right have it backwards about who is driven by "white guilt" --

This impulse to cover up and distort the history of slavery reeks of shame. It's, frankly, weird. Nobody has perfect ancestors, what sort of crisis of identity leads one to lie about the past.

It's just the things that happened. You learn about them you learn from them. You do better. Don't make it so emotional and personal.

Show threadMikeNMJul 30, 2023
@futurebird @lisamelton Well yeah, but boomers were raised in the middle of the Cold War. They got the Truth Justice and the American way drilled into them with the Under God added to the pledge, and by their thirties in the Regan revolution American Exceptionalism became the only acceptable political position. The irony is that the cognitive dissonance is coming from things going on across town from where they lived and were filled full of propaganda.
Show threadRuth Warkentin
@finalbroadcast
Yeah, the boomers just swallowed that shit whole, none of them ever rebelled, none of them were still in college when Reagan was president, none of them wore black armbands to class the day after the 1980 election ... oh, wait ...
::eyeroll::
Jul 30, 2023 at 5:13pmWeb
Show threadMikeNMJul 30, 2023
@RuthWarkentin since you mistook the criticism prevailing attitudes of your generation a for personal attack I’ll leave it to your generation’s shining cultural critic https://youtu.be/aTZ-CpINiqg
George Carlin Whining Baby Boomers

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Show threadRuth WarkentinAug 2, 2023
@finalbroadcast
You don't actually know what the prevailing attitudes of my generation are. Carlin hilariously generalized about a certain class of white boomers who came from the first half of that age cohort, but they were and are only a subset of the whole group. If you want to criticize something, you need to first know something about it.