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In reply to the discussion: This, my friends, is far too typical for my generation. [View all]2naSalit
(85,638 posts)Your equivocation doesn't mean a thing without some backed up info. So you went to a march, how nice of you. It might interest you to study what WE did back in the 60s and 70s and 80s and 90s... getting teargassed in front of the white house and in the streets en masse, beaten by cops, arrested for no good reason, denied jobs because we had hair more than 1/2 an inch long, and for what we wore and if we were seen with certain people... Denied education, access to student loans wasn't a fact of life until the late 80s and early 90s for most of us so if you weren't born with a silver spoon up yer butt, forget college. And many of us had brothers, husbands and dads who were traumatized and physically damaged by our continuous wars of choice... if they lived through it. And then there are those of us who worked to change things from within the system at our workplaces, and sometimes one or two might even get elected and try to affect change from that angle.
Did you know that in many states that women were at fault for their rapes if they didn't have every window and door of their dwellings double locked? And trying to prove you didn't "lead him into" forcing himself on you was near to impossible and you could end up in jail for reporting sexual abuse? And that you were considered a "possession" of your parents such that what they chose to do with you (including incest and beatings and deprivation of human concern) was their business unless they actually killed you or visibly starved you? I think you have no idea what life was like for our generation and that you have been spoiled by the privileges you enjoy that have not always been there... and guess who fought to make them possible.
So, as far as I'm concerned, you have a long way to go to even start to think that you have it tough or have "done more" than we boomers. You can start by reading some history and then take a good hard look in the cosmic mirror and ask yourself what you're all haughty about. You have a long way to go before you can start taking credit for what we did to make it safe for you to do what you choose to do for yourself.
So you can take your haughty attitude and keep it to yourself and stop insulting those of us who worked and fought for your freedom to be a snob.