"Mental, emotional, and physical abuse? That's Gen X's jam." Never thought about it, but damn if it aint true. Turns out the slacker generation was anything but - X is resilience in human form.
Boomers were just gaslighting us. We work harder than most of them ever did. We expected to fight for everything we got instead of getting it handed to us.
never called hte slacker generation ever. we had responsibilities beyond belief we were just trusted and handle crap. No mental awareness, safe space crap we see now.
@@redtesta We raised ourselves because nobody else bothered and/or could. I was talking about the 1991 Linklater classic filmed in Austin "Slacker" which gave rise to the term in the parlance of the day. Older folks literally called Gen X "slackers" at the time because we didn't buy into the establishment BS and expect to work for a company for 40 years and then retire with a pension. We knew how to go our own way and continue to live life without a tutorial. We were not a clean-cut gee golly generation. We DID party hard, invent extreme sports as such, and make some really great music. Not perfect, a lot of us got damaged pretty bad. We probably over corrected trying to make things better and safer for those younger than us. Each generation has its strengths and mistakes. In wide brush strokes, those are Gen X's.
As a black Gen Xer the boomers in my life fought for my civil rights & woman's rights and worked their asses off to make sure I could go to camp and college and live the American dream and not clean office buildings like my grandmother until she was 80. Or my beautiful grandfather who died a short order cook under some of the most deplorable racist treatment by "the greatest generation." Working hard was the way out and up. And yes, like most of us, my folks got divorced and we were the definition of latchkey kids and dysfunctional as a result. Because life is hard and humans are flawed. But the " look at me and acknowledge my needs" mentality of the Boomers have given their children & grandchildren the literal bullhorn and stage to fight for themselves in a brutal cruel world and its being used against them.
@Lance Keith True, Dr. King wasn't a Boomer. But those black children u see in all the civil rights videos getting hosed and dogs drawn on them. . we're 14 and 16 yr olds because their parents couldn't afford to not work and protest. SNCC the student nonviolent coordinating committee... led by Stokley Carmichael were teenagers .. the Black Panthers were majority boomers . And for most of them they were the carriers and the front line of fighting for getting into the rest of the room once the door was slightly kicked open to us.
@@xraivision1741 A couple things here. Those teenagers getting hosed and bitten by police dogs were the *minority* compared to their parents' and grandparents' generations doing the protesting. Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr, and Malcolm X as just a few examples of the Greatest and Silent Generations, the entire civil rights, hippie, and antiwar movements were *started by the Greatest and Silent Generations* and then remembered and mistakenly taken credit for by boomers. The Black Panthers were founded *entirely* by Silents (Elbert Howard, Huey Newton, and Seale), not a single boomer. Indeed, the boomers did help continue a lot of the Silent Generation's work, but they did not start it, nor contribute to its majority. John Lewis, another Civil Rights activist like Martin Luther King Jr, was also of the Silent Generation. No, it was because of their *parents* that we were able to be born and continue (I'm not black myself, but I just mean us newer generations in general, pun intended haha). They themselves played a part, but a small one nonetheless. In fact, even *this article written in 1963* makes clear that the majority of protesters were *adults in their twenties or older,* specifying how it was out of pocket to bring minors and children to these protests: archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/race/050463race-ra.html Using math, we know that at the *very youngest,* the protesters would've been 18, which at that time would mean born in 1945, in of itself not being quite a boomer but right on the cusp of Silent Generation and boomers. But then the vast majority of adults out there protesting and leaving work, despite not being able to afford it, and bearing the brunt of police dogs and hoses as well as the judges and police, were indeed Silent Generation or even Greatest in some cases.
@Lance Keith thanks for the history lesson. Well aware of the differences between the Silents that started it and the Boomers that saw it through, cuz it's taken GENERATIONS to get the job done. And while their were a lot of boomers that were burning bras and taking LSD to then become Yuppies, that wasn't all of them, or any that I know. The Black Panthers that I personally know like Kathleen Cleaver was a Boomer along w my parents and countless other boomers that went on to spend my whole life fighting for legislation.
That's odd. I am gen X and I have a TON of Gen X friends. The exception among them are people who have no retirement. It's something we discuss. I'm 55 and if I really wanted to, I could retire right now. I started saving when I was 18, my wife is 53 and she started saving when she was 16.
Boomers were given everything their depression and WW2 era parents didnt have, they thought it a sign of love but it diod, indeed make boomers weak. and from their weakness they made us Genx'rs strong. Boomers are bout equal to Millenials in their ability and insistance on whining.
@@bobbobbington3615 Yeah the recent silliness from random Gen Z saying some shit caused so many Gen Xers to start becoming edgy toughguys. They act tough, but they didn't endure any trials at all other than "oh we drank from hoses" and were supposedly a little rough with each other. Boomers at least had Vietnam, Millenials had GWOT and nonstop economic failures and Gen Z is growing up into a broken society and AI competition.
Gen X here. Agreed, imo we are late in jumping into the forefront, because we had this "Oh well." "Whatever." "Never mind." mindset. We were cool with being "underground" doing our own thing(s). It was cool in the short-term, but cost us in the long-term.
True. But there is a bright side. They have ignored us for so long, they forgot why they didn't want us to have any real power. When that happens its going to be very interesting.
My brothers and I are last leg of boomers raised by parents raised on farms through WW 2 depression. They grew up with cardboard in theirs shoes to cover the holes. That said we were raised like Gen X, throw some dirt on it cause Mama didn't buy Band-Aids.
Boomers were greedy. Not because they had retirement, but because they had retirement and then asked for everyone ELSE'S retirement on top of that. And if you refused to give them money, YOU were the greedy one.
Ain’t the BB’s who where the spoiled brats who expected it all handed to them - we’ve worked since we were young babysitting, mowing lawns…y’all played video games and wanted everything. Ain’t the boomers - go after the so-called Greatest Generation…Pelosi, McConnell, BIDEN….
Boomers were forced to fight in South East Asian conflicts. We walked or biked everywhere. We spent most of our free time in our youth outside. Our abuse was called disciplining and we wasted little time on stupid arguments about things that didn’t concern us. We mastered agreeing to disagree and could have discussions about almost anything without breaking our families, friendships, or communities.
Sounds just like my father and mother My dad was a boomer while my mom was gen x He was decorated retired soldier who looks down on his kids wanting us to be just as freakishly ambitious rather than carve out our own destiny while my mother constantly gets into a fight with him over our upbringing because of her traditional values as Filipina. Needless to say he was a tough arrogant parent but she taught him humility in the long haul
Hey hello we are the same age turning 50 in 3 weeks ugghhh… but I feel 30 and punch and curse like a 30 year old. And we have that sharp humor but also that snarky sarcasm that millenials have. And when you look ~40 that really confuses the millenials they think initially you are one of them. Only to find out you are actually an “old guy”. Greetings from NL! I like to go back to København we had a nice long weeks 5 years ago.
I think part of that is a coping mechanism from the trauma response. I lot of younger genx on the cusp are coming to this realisation, much later than it should have been, but still coming to it.
Will we ever have a Gen X President? Clinton? Boomer. George W, Obama, Trump? All Boomers. I predict a shift directly from the last Boomer President to a Millennial. Yeah, we knew Gen X was going to be left out, because the Boomers were never going to leave. We were the latchkey kids, independent, resourceful. Because our Boomer parents were nowhere to be seen. We had Tang. Koolaid. Poptarts. Pixie sticks. Candy cigarettes. Atomic fireballs. Pop rocks. Count Chocula. Apple Jacks. Froot loops. Red M&M's. It was a sugar and food dye party. And we were not the Slacker generation--that was a whole Boomer thing.
Will never forget they day my parents wanted me join them in a "family outing" and my boomer father didn't approve of my choice of clothing. I was about 15 and my old man was twice my size. I told him....F you then I'll stay home. Well he didn't take too kindly to that and charged at me. Within seconds I had my father jacked up against the wall and my mother had to break us up. I ended up going with them that night and at some point my father spoke up and said to me...I didn't think you had that in you you little "sheet"...I guess my job is mostly done. We both walked away with a new understanding and I actually respected him more for understanding that.
my description of the genx mindset has always been that even if you chop my foot off, i will just hop after you and kick you senseless with the bloody stump
Boomers also saw many of their finest drafted into a long, bloody and unjustified war. Which is heart breaking - and they didn't get disillusioned by it, they fought against it. They also produced some of the best music the world has ever heard. I'm Gen X and love my generation and the art and music it brought to the world. But I think all generations deserve some credit and am a little embarrased by how much of an inferiority complex my generation seems to be showing on TikTok lately.
I can’t relate. As a gen X’er, I made my boomer parents life hell. Never put my head down and let it go….like a rabid dog. Beatings, grounding, loss of tv privileges ect…didn’t matter. I was by no means spoiled, but I knew what was right and fought for it. I was apathetic to shit that didn’t matter, I stood up. Most gen X’ers raged against our parents as teenagers and won. We were feral and had zero fear….so not sure how on the cusp you were, but I was dead center. Fun fact: we were also the first generation that said F-you and went our own way.
The Silent And the Boomers fought for every stinkin right you have. All of you -from you X'ers on down. And no, Many of us Never got rich, or ever owned our own homes, or even got into the middle class. I've been a renter my entire life as are most of the people I grew up with and now we are on low fixed incomes just trying to get by month to month. I think you guys may be thinking too much of the upper-middle-class suburbanites as well as the conservative Republican, golf-playing country -clubbing CEO types who f---d over many of us also.
The thing is, right now, Boomers couldn't fight us because half of them are in the nursing home right now, still pontificating though. Time is on our side. But yeah, we know what it's like to grow up in rough neighborhoods and get kicked outside to fend for ourselves. A lot of us have been in street fights, me included. The Boomers don't know the monsters they created.
I’m a Gen Xer, but if my Dad was still alive he would kick your ass for calling him soft. He left home at 18 and made his own way. Spent his free time in the woods or fishing. One tough SOB.
At 85 years old this woman that you premise your rant with was born in 1938; 7 years before the first boomers came into being. You are spouting a lot of BS about what a boomer is and is not. Most of us come from blue collar families with Dads who were WW2 veterans that when they returned worked factory jobs until their retirement and death. We lived in neighborhoods with 1100 sq ft houses with one bathroom. Typically, with 4-10 kids in the family. Hence why there are so many of us. I think this is where this misconception that all us Boomers are rich comes from. There are more of us then any other generation. As such our pot of wealth would be much larger then other generations, but it is also spread over a much larger demographic. I have never looked into the statistics for this but I think I might. This concept that we are all rich and had everything handed to us is pretty off the mark. We were the older kids you mentioned. We built the tree forts in the woods that you made repairs to call your own. What you call Red Rover to us was just one street paying a visit to another street to have a friendly tackle football game that many times ended in a not so friendly rumble that was forgiven and laughed about in the days to come. The metal spin and puke/launch with the floor low to the ground (a safety feature that was added for children, Gen Xer protection) seen in many of these videos wasn’t even a thing. Ours had a bench around it and was open on the bottom. Probably a design carried over from the 19th century, I do not know. We were able to climb under it into the angle iron structure and take a high-speed run on the underside. Learned how to hold on tight and don’t let go at a very tender age. We had no college funds when we came of age. Our choices were to follow Dad into the factories, if you did most of them dissolved by the time, we were in are mid to late thirties. We could pay for our own school and try to balance, paying rent, and continue working. That is, if you were lucky enough to not be drafted into the Military. You know that Nasty war in Southeast Asia that Nobody liked back then. The older Boomers were the Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen that were the last generation to experience a Draft into a WAR. The younger ones like me watched these older brothers go off to war and some did not come back or came back F’d up and unappreciated. Their fight overseas and on the home, front is what eliminated the Draft and brought on the all-volunteer force that is still with us today. The ones that were protesting here in the states brought you the right to vote at age 18. These were my older brothers and sisters that made this fight that we all benefited from. You are Welcome. Now as I age, I watch the survivors of that war fight the cancers that Agent Orange screwed them up with or still deal with their PTSD which wasn’t even a thing then. You would not have been the one I would have picked for any special detail assignments or to go into a fight as more times than not the one with the Alligator mouth has the fight of a Canary. You come across more as a whiny late Millennial than a Gen Xer who usually shows much more self-respect and accuracy in the communication of their content. We were raised with the concepts; There is no such thing as you can’t. If you want it; you need to earn it. Anything worth doing is worth doing: is worth doing it right. And Tantrums were never a concept with our generation as we would get a swift crack on the ass or across the mouth depending on the severity and your age before it ever started. So… Come again how we are the softest generation in the history of earth. You are either ignorant of your Boomer history, full of crap or yourself or all of the above.. There are many successful Boomers however there are a whole lot more of us that fit the criteria I explained here with a more truthful history of how we got to where we are now. How do I know? I lived it! DO NOT mistake our silence for weakness. Proud and Strong Boomer with a lot fight left at 64.
Agreed & I have commented similarly on this guy's idiotic rant, yet these delusional fools refuse to acknowledge anyone else's point. They are so concerned about "social injustice" while ironically carrying on with this ageist BS. Funny, considering they are approaching senior status themselves. 😂
People over 80 aren't Boomers and they are the ones who did those amazing things. You gotta admit baby boomers were kinda spoiled overall as a generation and caused a lot of problems for coming generations.
@@darlenegattus8190Well, hate to burst your bubble but you are sadly ignorant and uninformed. Vstromrider625's comments are an accurate depiction of their Boomer experiences that many others can relate to. Yeah, for example, family of 7 with one bathroom, one car, one tv. What luxury we had. 😂 Do the math, he's talking about the Vietnam War, that MY generation, the Boomers had to fight. There was a mandatory draft then when a guy turned 18, they had a drawing and depending on their number were forced to go fight an illegitimate war. Boomers were heavily involved in getting legislature passed to eliminate the draft. Some were even killed for protesting this illegitimate war. Anyway, all these other generations are trying to discredit and vilify this one and it's so wrong and discriminating. Thought the youngers were "social justice" warriors- what a laugh. Age discrimination and hate is encouraged. Can't you see what's going on here? The misinformation and discrediting in all these comments is pathetic and dangerous. Try reading 1984; it's all about spreading hate and rewriting history.
Because people born in America after WW2 had the only intact economy left in the whole world, boomer. Duh. You left us home, alone. Remember, latch key kids? That's what he's talking about. Not your neighborhood, jack. Seeing everything through your own selfish lens...yep, that's it, too.
I think it depends on the particular boomers. I was born in '63. My husband in '64. While technically boomers, we actually relate more to GenX. And there are a LOT of us. So, yes, while maybe the boomers of the 50's were softer, those of us born in the early 60's are still tough as hell. We, too, would stand back up for round 2. Not trying to cause a ruckus, just some food for thought.
This is acceptable on a case by case basis. We took a vote and decided to allow you to join the GenX tribe. Welcome to the club, fellow elder GenXer! You're actually the perfect age. Old enough to see Star Wars in 1977, but still young enough that you probably bought a few of the toys. You pass all of my litmus tests. :) Honestly, the ones that get me are the elder millennials who want to be genX. If you were too young to see Breakfast Club in the theater, then I'm gonna have to put your application on hold for further review.
We are not absent. As usual we quietly listen, take heed and patiently await for our hour. The mess that Baby Boomers created will have to be cleaned up by the GenXers.
Same with the Milenials and their mess. Along with the Zoomers. We will be tasked with the cleanup. All the younger generations will never be free of us.
As with many presentations of this nature, it’s full of generalizations. One size does not fit all, IMHO. Yes, I’m a boomer and a US Navy veteran. Still working a full time job, too.
If you were a Early Boomer (1946-53) and were male, you had a little thing called the draft and "Viet-Nam" to think about. I'm a 1970 X-er and I feel ya gotta give them thier due on that. But otherwise they were a generation that had it pretty damn good up until the late 70's and the end of the Post War Boom. I member the energy crisis, Stagflation, the end of U.S. industrial might and the coming of Reganomics (Voo-Doo economics). If you lived in the Midwest or rual America the farm crisis of the Eighties just poured salt in the wounds, and Gen-X learned from our Greatest Gen grandparents to never take good times for granted.
Well Neil... I must admit as a boomer of 55, you are right on the money. We lived through the most prosperous times this country has ever seen. Our parents watched over us, but not to the extent of helicopter parents and certainly not bulldozer parents. You need to keep in mind that our parents survived the Great Depression and WW2, most probably thought they would never raise a family and have it so good and they wanted to protect us from the horrors they lived through and it was horrible. My father was a Marine in the Pacific campaign and not once told me anything other than where he was sent to fight. He did not want to relive the violence of it. Anyway, you got it mostly right.
When it came to the 80s being called the ME generation, they were talking about the boomers. And now we got another ME generation in full swing. Most of us don't care about being left out the generational conversation, just don't be talking smack about us.
WHEN Gen X is down for a roll in the stones, you KNOW you done F up and it’s too late to cry foul it’s just time to cry! 😂😂😂😂😂 I’m that happy cross between both (1963) had a 15 yrold boomer mother who raised us like a bunch of rabid wolves and thus, I’m both! I’m EVERYONES worst nightmare! I don’t give a fuck AND I’m gonna get mine! 😂😂😂😂
For me this is my Gen X mindset when I was in my twenties I worked for a boomer he wanted me to work myself to death so I devised the plan I worked at a retail store where I sold appliances and a commission was given on warranties and some higher end appliances I sold the warranties and the high-end appliances and made more money doing that than I did per hour on Somedays when the shift was slow I would go home early I made more money working less time then the boss did full-time in his Boomer mind I was a slacker so this slacker was sitting at home watching TV while his Boomer self was killing himself for less money
Honestly, I can't understand why grown adults (boomers, millennials & gen z-ers) seemingly never learned to stop crying over their wounds and instead go out and get more & more wounds as you learn how to live and not retreat. I learned that fifty years ago at age five. Of course, my parents were from the Silent Generation that survived The Depression. I think that has a lot to do with it
There's benefits to being silent but there's also large benefits to being loud about what you want and what you perceive to be as injustice. No one respects a "doormat" even if the "doormat" is doing the work.
My parents were hippies, not well to do hippies either. Neither of them had jobs that required a degree (my mother never completed one). My father died of aids at the age of 42 in 94. As my parents were divorced since I was two an old half, my mother raised me herself and died on assistance at age 72. Try again.
I disagree. My dad was a animal, it wasn't because I was small,he would throw down with the best of them. I promise you lol. To this day hes still rough. Hard working man. Gen Z is the weakest generation I have ever seen. They wouldn't last 10 minutes with my dad i promise you.
Just seeing this but sounds like we had very similar dysfunctional childhoods. And yeah, I’ll never forget the look on dad’s face when I was finally big enough that he couldn’t use violence and threats to get what he wanted. It was fear. Spoiled terrified brats screaming the world into the shape they want it with no desire to really work for and earn it. That’s why so many are losing it now. Their strength is fading, the terror grows and they don’t know how to survive without control and having their every whim fulfilled.
Born in 72.My dad was an MP in the Air force in Thailand during Vietnam.He was on the Air Force kickboxing team.We were turned loose and the weak ones didn't make it back and the survivors remember the story.We're like he whose name shall not be spoken.We snack on danger,dine on death and dead men don't make money.😂
And 60,000 of them were killed. That's 20xs more than Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Think of all the Boomers who lost their siblings and best friends to that war they were drafted into. Not to mention the countless number who came back disabled and with PTSD. Neil seems to think that was all so wonderful.
Very different for boomers here in the UK. The country was almost bankrupt after WW2. Unemployment was especially high in the late 70's and early 80's. The comment on generational toughness is complete fantasy. It's what you like to think of your generation. They are no tougher or weaker.
David, it was not easy it the US for a Boomer kid. Don't believe this guy's BS, talking about times he knows nothing about. But we didn't complain or blame our parents for the whole state of the world and everything that went wrong.
This is incredible how the boomer parents were pretty much all the same no matter the background n ad a gen X I’m honoured IM HONOURED cause no matter what crap we had to deal with we still had the best childhood EVER!!!! We were young adults but we had fun!!!
In all truth, the government we have now, regardless of the political parties, is based on the Boomer generation. Eventually, Gen X will be in charge, and there will be big shifts and changes. Things won't get done for the drama, they'll just get done because we don't want to be bothered by it anymore.
Boomer here that must have gotten into the wrong lane at some point because I just don't seem to fit into any of your lil boxes & will leave you as daisy food or hand you 5 dollars, depends on how you treat me & the rest of the populace in general & what your fashion of dealing with others shows what you deserve, PERIOD!
lets see im was born in 1952 makes me a boomer we had pinto beans and salad for dinner 5 out of 7 days a week when i was growing up till i was in Jr. high school worked in construction 22 years and drove semis another 22 years before i retired, never got welfare only got unemployment in the winter as a construction worker when i could not work due to weather, never got free food free housing free medical free cars, and unlike genX i could drive a high powered muscle car without crashing it like i see you guys on youtube running into everything, never went to collage went to a tech school paid by me working full time job at night and school during the day and not crying that i want tax payers to pay my bills
Idk; my mom's a boomer and she literally had to put cardboard in her shoes. They were THAT poor. Also as a GenXer I do struggle with being in control. I have to remind myself all the time that I'm not.
i wouldn't be close at all. Gen x here and this guy is nailing it. I was brought up by greatest generation and silent generation. :) Sounds like our current politics and the situation and who has been calling the shots for years. :) Great dual meaning video
@@lromero8181 Did you have any kind of job. Just even having any kind of job, let alone a good job is white privilege. Alot of us born post 1970 didn't even get that privilege to work once the 1990s kicked in.
"Mental, emotional, and physical abuse? That's Gen X's jam." Never thought about it, but damn if it aint true. Turns out the slacker generation was anything but - X is resilience in human form.
Boomers were just gaslighting us. We work harder than most of them ever did. We expected to fight for everything we got instead of getting it handed to us.
never called hte slacker generation ever. we had responsibilities beyond belief we were just trusted and handle crap. No mental awareness, safe space crap we see now.
@@redtesta We raised ourselves because nobody else bothered and/or could. I was talking about the 1991 Linklater classic filmed in Austin "Slacker" which gave rise to the term in the parlance of the day.
Older folks literally called Gen X "slackers" at the time because we didn't buy into the establishment BS and expect to work for a company for 40 years and then retire with a pension. We knew how to go our own way and continue to live life without a tutorial. We were not a clean-cut gee golly generation. We DID party hard, invent extreme sports as such, and make some really great music. Not perfect, a lot of us got damaged pretty bad. We probably over corrected trying to make things better and safer for those younger than us. Each generation has its strengths and mistakes. In wide brush strokes, those are Gen X's.
But poor parenting is also really genX.
Sitcom TV was all about putting each other down. Mean behavior was reinforced by the media.
As a black Gen Xer the boomers in my life fought for my civil rights & woman's rights and worked their asses off to make sure I could go to camp and college and live the American dream and not clean office buildings like my grandmother until she was 80. Or my beautiful grandfather who died a short order cook under some of the most deplorable racist treatment by "the greatest generation." Working hard was the way out and up. And yes, like most of us, my folks got divorced and we were the definition of latchkey kids and dysfunctional as a result. Because life is hard and humans are flawed. But the " look at me and acknowledge my needs" mentality of the Boomers have given their children & grandchildren the literal bullhorn and stage to fight for themselves in a brutal cruel world and its being used against them.
That was almost entirely the Silent and Greatest Generations of World War II *before* the boomers, not at all the boomers themselves.
@Lance Keith True, Dr. King wasn't a Boomer. But those black children u see in all the civil rights videos getting hosed and dogs drawn on them. . we're 14 and 16 yr olds because their parents couldn't afford to not work and protest. SNCC the student nonviolent coordinating committee... led by Stokley Carmichael were teenagers .. the Black Panthers were majority boomers . And for most of them they were the carriers and the front line of fighting for getting into the rest of the room once the door was slightly kicked open to us.
@@xraivision1741 A couple things here. Those teenagers getting hosed and bitten by police dogs were the *minority* compared to their parents' and grandparents' generations doing the protesting.
Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr, and Malcolm X as just a few examples of the Greatest and Silent Generations, the entire civil rights, hippie, and antiwar movements were *started by the Greatest and Silent Generations* and then remembered and mistakenly taken credit for by boomers.
The Black Panthers were founded *entirely* by Silents (Elbert Howard, Huey Newton, and Seale), not a single boomer. Indeed, the boomers did help continue a lot of the Silent Generation's work, but they did not start it, nor contribute to its majority.
John Lewis, another Civil Rights activist like Martin Luther King Jr, was also of the Silent Generation.
No, it was because of their *parents* that we were able to be born and continue (I'm not black myself, but I just mean us newer generations in general, pun intended haha). They themselves played a part, but a small one nonetheless.
In fact, even *this article written in 1963* makes clear that the majority of protesters were *adults in their twenties or older,* specifying how it was out of pocket to bring minors and children to these protests: archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/race/050463race-ra.html
Using math, we know that at the *very youngest,* the protesters would've been 18, which at that time would mean born in 1945, in of itself not being quite a boomer but right on the cusp of Silent Generation and boomers.
But then the vast majority of adults out there protesting and leaving work, despite not being able to afford it, and bearing the brunt of police dogs and hoses as well as the judges and police, were indeed Silent Generation or even Greatest in some cases.
@Lance Keith thanks for the history lesson. Well aware of the differences between the Silents that started it and the Boomers that saw it through, cuz it's taken GENERATIONS to get the job done. And while their were a lot of boomers that were burning bras and taking LSD to then become Yuppies, that wasn't all of them, or any that I know. The Black Panthers that I personally know like Kathleen Cleaver was a Boomer along w my parents and countless other boomers that went on to spend my whole life fighting for legislation.
@@xraivision1741 The Black Panthers NOR the Hippies were good!! Neither one! Don't fool yourself.
You know your GenX if you are approaching 50 and have nothing for retirement
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That's odd. I am gen X and I have a TON of Gen X friends. The exception among them are people who have no retirement. It's something we discuss. I'm 55 and if I really wanted to, I could retire right now. I started saving when I was 18, my wife is 53 and she started saving when she was 16.
Boomer Generation was the meanest generation, because they raised us, Gen Xers. I just remember alot of neglect from my Boomer parents, and abuse.
Boomers were given everything their depression and WW2 era parents didnt have, they thought it a sign of love but it diod, indeed make boomers weak. and from their weakness they made us Genx'rs strong. Boomers are bout equal to Millenials in their ability and insistance on whining.
As do I.
sorry to hear that PN. There will always be some bad parents.
Boomers are the first generation of performative narcissism, aka virtue signaling. Gen X are like a second silent generation
Gen X are Boomer Lite.
@@bobbobbington3615 Yeah the recent silliness from random Gen Z saying some shit caused so many Gen Xers to start becoming edgy toughguys. They act tough, but they didn't endure any trials at all other than "oh we drank from hoses" and were supposedly a little rough with each other. Boomers at least had Vietnam, Millenials had GWOT and nonstop economic failures and Gen Z is growing up into a broken society and AI competition.
We were 30 at 12.
Exactly
Yep.
Fck that shit...5!!!!
Gen X here. Agreed, imo we are late in jumping into the forefront, because we had this "Oh well." "Whatever." "Never mind." mindset. We were cool with being "underground" doing our own thing(s).
It was cool in the short-term, but cost us in the long-term.
True. But there is a bright side. They have ignored us for so long, they forgot why they didn't want us to have any real power. When that happens its going to be very interesting.
Yep, I have to agree our straight to the point throat punch style, even though late to the conversation, might actually be perfect timing.
Thats not our fault. We know who shafted us.
We are chill.. maybe not a good thing but way more sane!
"Guys, guys... look, I don't care... do you see me not caring? GUYS! I don't care... we're underground...
... pay attention to me. "
-GenX
My brothers and I are last leg of boomers raised by parents raised on farms through WW 2 depression. They grew up with cardboard in theirs shoes to cover the holes. That said we were raised like Gen X, throw some dirt on it cause Mama didn't buy Band-Aids.
Boomers were greedy. Not because they had retirement, but because they had retirement and then asked for everyone ELSE'S retirement on top of that. And if you refused to give them money, YOU were the greedy one.
Quantitative easing has taken retirement away from generations. And who was in charge at the time? Boomers
Ain’t the BB’s who where the spoiled brats who expected it all handed to them - we’ve worked since we were young babysitting, mowing lawns…y’all played video games and wanted everything. Ain’t the boomers - go after the so-called Greatest Generation…Pelosi, McConnell, BIDEN….
@@yuppers1- Pelosi, McConnell, BIDEN…ALL Greatest Gen…your ageism is showing your ignorance!! Check your incorrect FACTS…
Plus they had the government rig the game and stack the deck against us.
Boomers were forced to fight in South East Asian conflicts. We walked or biked everywhere. We spent most of our free time in our youth outside. Our abuse was called disciplining and we wasted little time on stupid arguments about things that didn’t concern us. We mastered agreeing to disagree and could have discussions about almost anything without breaking our families, friendships, or communities.
Sounds just like my father and mother
My dad was a boomer while my mom was gen x
He was decorated retired soldier who looks down on his kids wanting us to be just as freakishly ambitious rather than carve out our own destiny while my mother constantly gets into a fight with him over our upbringing because of her traditional values as Filipina.
Needless to say he was a tough arrogant parent but she taught him humility in the long haul
Gen Xer here. Exactly! Everything you said.
I'm very careful about which Boomers I allow to be around
You were on point and I am a Generation x👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Turning 50 this year, and that jam comment had me cracking up, guess we gen x'ers are pretty similar around the world (I'm danish)
Hey hello we are the same age turning 50 in 3 weeks ugghhh… but I feel 30 and punch and curse like a 30 year old. And we have that sharp humor but also that snarky sarcasm that millenials have.
And when you look ~40 that really confuses the millenials they think initially you are one of them. Only to find out you are actually an “old guy”.
Greetings from NL! I like to go back to København we had a nice long weeks 5 years ago.
@@CallousCoder Greetings fellow GenX'er
this, all of this. we pay for their greed and selfishness, which continues to spill over today.
Boomers gave us the mental, emotional and physical abuse.
Easiest way to tell if someone is Gen X, works about 95% of the time: if a Gen Z calls them a Boomer, they are Gen X.
Gen X are just Boomer Lite. No self reflection, think they're unique/the best.
@@bobbobbington3615 The first part, true, the second part, dead wrong, you are describing over half of Gen Z.
I think part of that is a coping mechanism from the trauma response.
I lot of younger genx on the cusp are coming to this realisation, much later than it should have been, but still coming to it.
Will we ever have a Gen X President? Clinton? Boomer. George W, Obama, Trump? All Boomers. I predict a shift directly from the last Boomer President to a Millennial. Yeah, we knew Gen X was going to be left out, because the Boomers were never going to leave. We were the latchkey kids, independent, resourceful. Because our Boomer parents were nowhere to be seen. We had Tang. Koolaid. Poptarts. Pixie sticks. Candy cigarettes. Atomic fireballs. Pop rocks. Count Chocula. Apple Jacks. Froot loops. Red M&M's. It was a sugar and food dye party. And we were not the Slacker generation--that was a whole Boomer thing.
Will never forget they day my parents wanted me join them in a "family outing" and my boomer father didn't approve of my choice of clothing. I was about 15 and my old man was twice my size. I told him....F you then I'll stay home. Well he didn't take too kindly to that and charged at me. Within seconds I had my father jacked up against the wall and my mother had to break us up. I ended up going with them that night and at some point my father spoke up and said to me...I didn't think you had that in you you little "sheet"...I guess my job is mostly done. We both walked away with a new understanding and I actually respected him more for understanding that.
my description of the genx mindset has always been that even if you chop my foot off, i will just hop after you and kick you senseless with the bloody stump
'Tis but a scratch - just to think of a few boomers that actually were VERY creative, Monty Python FTW :)
@@KenschenDKfirst thing I thought. "Tis but a flesh wound". 🤣🤣🤣
Boomers also saw many of their finest drafted into a long, bloody and unjustified war. Which is heart breaking - and they didn't get disillusioned by it, they fought against it. They also produced some of the best music the world has ever heard. I'm Gen X and love my generation and the art and music it brought to the world. But I think all generations deserve some credit and am a little embarrased by how much of an inferiority complex my generation seems to be showing on TikTok lately.
Boomers were the OG karens.
they still are
Some Gen Xers are spoiled Karen's too.
I can’t relate. As a gen X’er, I made my boomer parents life hell. Never put my head down and let it go….like a rabid dog. Beatings, grounding, loss of tv privileges ect…didn’t matter. I was by no means spoiled, but I knew what was right and fought for it. I was apathetic to shit that didn’t matter, I stood up. Most gen X’ers raged against our parents as teenagers and won. We were feral and had zero fear….so not sure how on the cusp you were, but I was dead center. Fun fact: we were also the first generation that said F-you and went our own way.
I’m GenX and saw all that stuff was bullshit. We raised ourselves. Now these Boomers are threatening us all.
The Silent And the Boomers fought for every stinkin right you have. All of you -from you X'ers on down. And no, Many of us Never got rich, or ever owned our own homes, or even got into the middle class. I've been a renter my entire life as are most of the people I grew up with and now we are on low fixed incomes just trying to get by month to month. I think you guys may be thinking too much of the upper-middle-class suburbanites as well as the conservative Republican, golf-playing country -clubbing CEO types who f---d over many of us also.
The thing is, right now, Boomers couldn't fight us because half of them are in the nursing home right now, still pontificating though. Time is on our side. But yeah, we know what it's like to grow up in rough neighborhoods and get kicked outside to fend for ourselves. A lot of us have been in street fights, me included. The Boomers don't know the monsters they created.
Many still don't
I’m a Gen Xer, but if my Dad was still alive he would kick your ass for calling him soft. He left home at 18 and made his own way. Spent his free time in the woods or fishing. One tough SOB.
At 85 years old this woman that you premise your rant with was born in 1938; 7 years before the first boomers came into being. You are spouting a lot of BS about what a boomer is and is not.
Most of us come from blue collar families with Dads who were WW2 veterans that when they returned worked factory jobs until their retirement and death. We lived in neighborhoods with 1100 sq ft houses with one bathroom. Typically, with 4-10 kids in the family. Hence why there are so many of us.
I think this is where this misconception that all us Boomers are rich comes from. There are more of us then any other generation. As such our pot of wealth would be much larger then other generations, but it is also spread over a much larger demographic. I have never looked into the statistics for this but I think I might. This concept that we are all rich and had everything handed to us is pretty off the mark.
We were the older kids you mentioned. We built the tree forts in the woods that you made repairs to call your own. What you call Red Rover to us was just one street paying a visit to another street to have a friendly tackle football game that many times ended in a not so friendly rumble that was forgiven and laughed about in the days to come. The metal spin and puke/launch with the floor low to the ground (a safety feature that was added for children, Gen Xer protection) seen in many of these videos wasn’t even a thing. Ours had a bench around it and was open on the bottom. Probably a design carried over from the 19th century, I do not know. We were able to climb under it into the angle iron structure and take a high-speed run on the underside. Learned how to hold on tight and don’t let go at a very tender age.
We had no college funds when we came of age. Our choices were to follow Dad into the factories, if you did most of them dissolved by the time, we were in are mid to late thirties. We could pay for our own school and try to balance, paying rent, and continue working. That is, if you were lucky enough to not be drafted into the Military. You know that Nasty war in Southeast Asia that Nobody liked back then.
The older Boomers were the Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen that were the last generation to experience a Draft into a WAR. The younger ones like me watched these older brothers go off to war and some did not come back or came back F’d up and unappreciated. Their fight overseas and on the home, front is what eliminated the Draft and brought on the all-volunteer force that is still with us today. The ones that were protesting here in the states brought you the right to vote at age 18. These were my older brothers and sisters that made this fight that we all benefited from. You are Welcome.
Now as I age, I watch the survivors of that war fight the cancers that Agent Orange screwed them up with or still deal with their PTSD which wasn’t even a thing then.
You would not have been the one I would have picked for any special detail assignments or to go into a fight as more times than not the one with the Alligator mouth has the fight of a Canary.
You come across more as a whiny late Millennial than a Gen Xer who usually shows much more self-respect and accuracy in the communication of their content.
We were raised with the concepts;
There is no such thing as you can’t. If you want it; you need to earn it. Anything worth doing is worth doing: is worth doing it right. And Tantrums were never a concept with our generation as we would get a swift crack on the ass or across the mouth depending on the severity and your age before it ever started.
So…
Come again how we are the softest generation in the history of earth. You are either ignorant of your Boomer history, full of crap or yourself or all of the above.. There are many successful Boomers however there are a whole lot more of us that fit the criteria I explained here with a more truthful history of how we got to where we are now. How do I know? I lived it!
DO NOT mistake our silence for weakness.
Proud and Strong Boomer with a lot fight left at 64.
Well said
Agreed & I have commented similarly on this guy's idiotic rant, yet these delusional fools refuse to acknowledge anyone else's point. They are so concerned about "social injustice" while ironically carrying on with this ageist BS. Funny, considering they are approaching senior status themselves. 😂
People over 80 aren't Boomers and they are the ones who did those amazing things. You gotta admit baby boomers were kinda spoiled overall as a generation and caused a lot of problems for coming generations.
@@darlenegattus8190Well, hate to burst your bubble but you are sadly ignorant and uninformed. Vstromrider625's comments are an accurate depiction of their Boomer experiences that many others can relate to. Yeah, for example, family of 7 with one bathroom, one car, one tv. What luxury we had. 😂 Do the math, he's talking about the Vietnam War, that MY generation, the Boomers had to fight. There was a mandatory draft then when a guy turned 18, they had a drawing and depending on their number were forced to go fight an illegitimate war. Boomers were heavily involved in getting legislature passed to eliminate the draft. Some were even killed for protesting this illegitimate war. Anyway, all these other generations are trying to discredit and vilify this one and it's so wrong and discriminating. Thought the youngers were "social justice" warriors- what a laugh. Age discrimination and hate is encouraged. Can't you see what's going on here? The misinformation and discrediting in all these comments is pathetic and dangerous. Try reading 1984; it's all about spreading hate and rewriting history.
Because people born in America after WW2 had the only intact economy left in the whole world, boomer. Duh. You left us home, alone. Remember, latch key kids?
That's what he's talking about. Not your neighborhood, jack.
Seeing everything through your own selfish lens...yep, that's it, too.
AMEN... I'm the Oldest Gen X'er. I was once told by a Boomer, "You were born too late to benefit from the Boomer Generation."
I think it depends on the particular boomers. I was born in '63. My husband in '64. While technically boomers, we actually relate more to GenX. And there are a LOT of us. So, yes, while maybe the boomers of the 50's were softer, those of us born in the early 60's are still tough as hell. We, too, would stand back up for round 2. Not trying to cause a ruckus, just some food for thought.
This is acceptable on a case by case basis.
We took a vote and decided to allow you to join the GenX tribe. Welcome to the club, fellow elder GenXer!
You're actually the perfect age. Old enough to see Star Wars in 1977, but still young enough that you probably bought a few of the toys. You pass all of my litmus tests. :)
Honestly, the ones that get me are the elder millennials who want to be genX.
If you were too young to see Breakfast Club in the theater, then I'm gonna have to put your application on hold for further review.
We are not absent. As usual we quietly listen, take heed and patiently await for our hour.
The mess that Baby Boomers created will have to be cleaned up by the GenXers.
Same with the Milenials and their mess. Along with the Zoomers. We will be tasked with the cleanup. All the younger generations will never be free of us.
😂😂😂 Made the worse mess of all! Gen X 😮
As with many presentations of this nature, it’s full of generalizations. One size does not fit all, IMHO. Yes, I’m a boomer and a US Navy veteran. Still working a full time job, too.
If you were a Early Boomer (1946-53) and were male, you had a little thing called the draft and "Viet-Nam" to think about.
I'm a 1970 X-er and I feel ya gotta give them thier due on that. But otherwise they were a generation that had it pretty damn good up until the late 70's and the end of the Post War Boom. I member the energy crisis, Stagflation, the end of U.S. industrial might and the coming of Reganomics (Voo-Doo economics).
If you lived in the Midwest or rual America the farm crisis of the Eighties just poured salt in the wounds, and Gen-X learned from our Greatest Gen grandparents to never take good times for granted.
Gen X all Truth
Well Neil... I must admit as a boomer of 55, you are right on the money. We lived through the most prosperous times this country has ever seen. Our parents watched over us, but not to the extent of helicopter parents and certainly not bulldozer parents. You need to keep in mind that our parents survived the Great Depression and WW2, most probably thought they would never raise a family and have it so good and they wanted to protect us from the horrors they lived through and it was horrible. My father was a Marine in the Pacific campaign and not once told me anything other than where he was sent to fight. He did not want to relive the violence of it. Anyway, you got it mostly right.
When it came to the 80s being called the ME generation, they were talking about the boomers. And now we got another ME generation in full swing. Most of us don't care about being left out the generational conversation, just don't be talking smack about us.
WHEN Gen X is down for a roll in the stones, you KNOW you done F up and it’s too late to cry foul it’s just time to cry! 😂😂😂😂😂 I’m that happy cross between both (1963) had a 15 yrold boomer mother who raised us like a bunch of rabid wolves and thus, I’m both! I’m EVERYONES worst nightmare! I don’t give a fuck AND I’m gonna get mine! 😂😂😂😂
Damn right! Nailed it in your video.
For me this is my Gen X mindset when I was in my twenties I worked for a boomer he wanted me to work myself to death so I devised the plan I worked at a retail store where I sold appliances and a commission was given on warranties and some higher end appliances I sold the warranties and the high-end appliances and made more money doing that than I did per hour on Somedays when the shift was slow I would go home early I made more money working less time then the boss did full-time in his Boomer mind I was a slacker so this slacker was sitting at home watching TV while his Boomer self was killing himself for less money
Gen-X would bury Boomers 2:1 in the backyard. Millenials? Gen-Z, Gen-Y? 5:1
Gen-X is resilient.
Honestly, I can't understand why grown adults (boomers, millennials & gen z-ers) seemingly never learned to stop crying over their wounds and instead go out and get more & more wounds as you learn how to live and not retreat. I learned that fifty years ago at age five. Of course, my parents were from the Silent Generation that survived The Depression. I think that has a lot to do with it
Gen Xer here who was raised by Silent Generation parents and had Boomer siblings. I concur with your statement.
There's benefits to being silent but there's also large benefits to being loud about what you want and what you perceive to be as injustice. No one respects a "doormat" even if the "doormat" is doing the work.
If there's anything millennials and boomers need to keep in mind, it's this.
Gen X needs neither of them to survive. They both need us.
No, I disagree with you. The softest generation is, generation zero.
At least the boomers have brains!
I’m almost if not 100 percent certain my mother who is a boomer would mop the floor with any and all gens
Damn this was so accurate 😂❤
The G.I generation use to beat up the boomer generation because of war world 2
So spot on. Boomers cruised and then fleeced the younger generations
My parents were hippies, not well to do hippies either. Neither of them had jobs that required a degree (my mother never completed one). My father died of aids at the age of 42 in 94. As my parents were divorced since I was two an old half, my mother raised me herself and died on assistance at age 72. Try again.
P.s. a lot of boomers served in Nam.
Very well said! ❤
Spot. On.
Your right about this. I think gen x is an epic generation because we so challenged and left to raise ourselves.
I disagree. My dad was a animal, it wasn't because I was small,he would throw down with the best of them. I promise you lol. To this day hes still rough. Hard working man. Gen Z is the weakest generation I have ever seen. They wouldn't last 10 minutes with my dad i promise you.
Just seeing this but sounds like we had very similar dysfunctional childhoods. And yeah, I’ll never forget the look on dad’s face when I was finally big enough that he couldn’t use violence and threats to get what he wanted. It was fear. Spoiled terrified brats screaming the world into the shape they want it with no desire to really work for and earn it. That’s why so many are losing it now. Their strength is fading, the terror grows and they don’t know how to survive without control and having their every whim fulfilled.
Born in 72.My dad was an MP in the Air force in Thailand during Vietnam.He was on the Air Force kickboxing team.We were turned loose and the weak ones didn't make it back and the survivors remember the story.We're like he whose name shall not be spoken.We snack on danger,dine on death and dead men don't make money.😂
Thank you for noting complexion as a factor.
Im gen X but remember mant boomers.served in Viet Nam
True
And 60,000 of them were killed. That's 20xs more than Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Think of all the Boomers who lost their siblings and best friends to that war they were drafted into. Not to mention the countless number who came back disabled and with PTSD. Neil seems to think that was all so wonderful.
Dont forget the greed and total lack of understanding of people with any kind of actual problems. 110%%%%%%
Very different for boomers here in the UK. The country was almost bankrupt after WW2. Unemployment was especially high in the late 70's and early 80's. The comment on generational toughness is complete fantasy. It's what you like to think of your generation. They are no tougher or weaker.
David, it was not easy it the US for a Boomer kid. Don't believe this guy's BS, talking about times he knows nothing about. But we didn't complain or blame our parents for the whole state of the world and everything that went wrong.
This is incredible how the boomer parents were pretty much all the same no matter the background n ad a gen X I’m honoured IM HONOURED cause no matter what crap we had to deal with we still had the best childhood EVER!!!! We were young adults but we had fun!!!
In all truth, the government we have now, regardless of the political parties, is based on the Boomer generation. Eventually, Gen X will be in charge, and there will be big shifts and changes.
Things won't get done for the drama, they'll just get done because we don't want to be bothered by it anymore.
What a load of b.s.
Boomer here that must have gotten into the wrong lane at some point because I just don't seem to fit into any of your lil boxes & will leave you as daisy food or hand you 5 dollars, depends on how you treat me & the rest of the populace in general & what your fashion of dealing with others shows what you deserve, PERIOD!
lol, stop the meth.
Cold hard facts!!!
Yes, Gen X, we are sleepers, flying under the radar...but FA and FO!! 😱😱😱
Gen x let Mortal Combat and Grand Theft Auto raise their kids. We see the ramifications in our world now
No we did not!!!! Boomer Korporate Tech Overlords are culpable!
We are not the Gen X! We are the X-Gen!
GenXers know how to properly pick their battles...some things are worth the fight, others are not.
Oh good, the GenX fairies are complaining about the Boomer fairies.
Well, I was raised by the silent generation and I can’t tell you that the silent generation didn’t get anything handed to them on a platter.
By the way...Gen X is NOTHING like the Silent Generation.
1:24 Quit a fight? Yeah, sure. You either end a fight properly or get dragged back to get pounded.
Whatcha yapping about. Just drop off the alphas after sugaring em up😂
Did boomers deal with abusive parents? Like from the war
Much like their grandkids the millennials.
Boomers don't want to open Pandora's Box!
Boomers have had opportunities gen x has never had to make money and prosper.
You need to remember something…. the boomers raised you
It was Boomer Big brother or sister that had to babysit your ass as you played on your handheld games of the 80s.
More likely doing Homework! We had and still have Values!
lets see im was born in 1952 makes me a boomer we had pinto beans and salad for dinner 5 out of 7 days a week when i was growing up till i was in Jr. high school worked in construction 22 years and drove semis another 22 years before i retired, never got welfare only got unemployment in the winter as a construction worker when i could not work due to weather, never got free food free housing free medical free cars, and unlike genX i could drive a high powered muscle car without crashing it like i see you guys on youtube running into everything, never went to collage went to a tech school paid by me working full time job at night and school during the day and not crying that i want tax payers to pay my bills
Facts
0:42 You look Irish not White
I needed some stuff from the store Boomers!
You hit the nail on the head 💯💯💯
💯🤣💯
I detect no lies here
Regarding Boomers, you couldn't be more wrong.
So f🤬cking true!
That’s 100 percent
YESSSS so true!
True that!
Idk; my mom's a boomer and she literally had to put cardboard in her shoes. They were THAT poor. Also as a GenXer I do struggle with being in control. I have to remind myself all the time that I'm not.
i wouldn't be close at all. Gen x here and this guy is nailing it. I was brought up by greatest generation and silent generation. :) Sounds like our current politics and the situation and who has been calling the shots for years. :) Great dual meaning video
💯 FACTS 🎯
Hahahahaha, maybe, but ey, every gen after x is a 1000 times worse. Go fight them, pls. Thaanks xx
Hell yeah!!
Sad but true
We got this
Big talk.
Big Truth
@@DogSoldier0351 Exactly!
I guess it’s according to when you were born. I was born in ‘65 so I felt like I either didn’t fit in either generation or sometimes both.
Usually that means you're an Xer
Usually that means you're a boomer because financially you were spoiled and have no clue.
@@elliecherise1968 I was definitely not financially spoiled I assure you.
@@lromero8181 Did you have any kind of job. Just even having any kind of job, let alone a good job is white privilege. Alot of us born post 1970 didn't even get that privilege to work once the 1990s kicked in.