I love the ageism in this thread and online forums in general. When there’s an article “boomers bad” everyone falls over themselves to agree. When there’s an article that (ostensibly) points the opposite way we can’t wait to tell anecdotes about how actually it’s still the boomers that are bad. There are always good reasons for this or that perceived failing of the younger generations.
To be clear I’m not defending either “side” here. The whole generation war is a ridiculous nonsense, including drawing arbitrary “gen whatever” lines at specific years.) But it goes to show how easy we are to play with stupid simplistic headlines like this even though we, especially here in the “fediverse”, like to think of ourselves as more rational / informed.
I love the ageism in this thread and online forums in general. When there’s an article “boomers bad” everyone falls over themselves to agree. When there’s an article that (ostensibly) points the opposite way we can’t wait to tell anecdotes about how actually it’s still the boomers that are bad. There are always good reasons for this or that perceived failing of the younger generations.
To be clear I’m not defending either “side” here. The whole generation war is a ridiculous nonsense, including drawing arbitrary “gen whatever” lines at specific years.) But it goes to show how easy we are to play with stupid simplistic headlines like this even though we, especially here in the “fediverse”, like to think of ourselves as more rational / informed.
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Way to miss the point. This ridiculous “us vs them” is just the corporate media’s latest way to drive a wedge between us.
A stupid meaningless distraction to get out attention away from real issues.