Could it also be that boomers, while racist, do not consider themselves to be racist? My racist boomer father would tell you he absolutely is not racist, but that everyone loves a racist joke.
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That's how I read it to begin with.
thats basically it.
You can make mental gymnastics why it is so, but the fact is that ye old boomers grew up in a racist world and is expected from them to be racist. Le millennials had 50 years of efforts and sacrifices to make the world less racist.
There are still areas in the South where people grow up in a racist world. Family are racist, friends are racist, school if not actively racist is doing nothing to dissuade it.
My mom refuses to admit that she’s racist.
Oh, but when I brought a black man home, she asked me afterwards, “Why do all your boyfriends have… a tan?”
Don’t worry, I let it out on her. I’m practically 100% Slavic if my brother’s DNA test is to be trusted (it lines up with the family tree I’ve got, so yeah.) I asked if she’d rather I marry a “nice Polish boy” that I have nothing in common with, like she did, like her sisters did, like her mother did. Because why should personal compatibility matter so long as our ancestries are the same?
She backed off and hasn’t made a peep about my “tan” partners ever since.
They think compatibility comes from ethnicity. Because of shared cultural and sanguinary heritage from Poland, your likelihood of sharing the same values, life goals, sense of humor, and physical attraction with a Polish partner is higher.
While that would seem outwardly true, the reality is that most countries around the world aren't as ethnically and culturally homogeneous anymore, compared to generations past.
Personally, I think it's a good thing. Homogeneity, in nature, leads to genetic stagnation and degradation.
I get that, for my parents’ generation at least. But I’m the weirdo autistic chick that lives multiple “alternative lifestyles” simultaneously.
I don’t go to the church I was baptized in, because I’m atheist. I don’t eat the food my culture cooks, because I’m vegan. I’m a pansexual who practices polyamory. I don’t share my parents’ values, nor those of my ancestral culture.
Which is partly why I gel better with people who don’t share the “dominant” culture around us (in the US.) I get along with others who’ve been marginalized, who don’t “fit in,” who ~~want to burn down capitalism~~ have been on the “outside” for so long that we share a common bond through it. Most people I’ve dated have either been born in other countries and/or have disabilities. It makes sense for me, but from the outside it’s easy to imagine that my mom thinks I’m still “rebelling” somehow (while deep into my 30s.)
Maybe. But I think it's worrying if young people are now feeling more emboldened about being racist.
Alternative title: Millennial Republicans More Honest Than Boomer Contemporaries, Study Finds
It means millenials are actively deciding to be racist rather than it just being a result of upbringing.
What the fuck is this entire sentence?
David Hirsch, former Republican candidate for New York State Assembly, on X: “While there are a lot of positives in this poll, there are some disturbing trends being influenced by the Woke Right like rising Holocaust Denialism, and that 12% are antisemitic and 19% accept them. We can fix this and other issues.”
The Woke Right? Isn't that firstly an oxymoron, and secondly a label they would never self-apply?
Bibi used the term pejoratively when talking about MAGA folks who were criticizing Israel recently. Don’t know the term’s origins though, I’ve been seeing it more lately.
Woke right is groypers because they're "critical of Israel". Cause they're nazis
The Woke Right?
That is trump nodding off at a meeting.
Zionism is Nazism, as such they're upset that some racists don't like them.
That is some premium copium.
Yeah this is just because woke means nothing coherent to right wingers. To the left, it means to be aware of systemic problems such as racism and the class war. To the right, it just means "person I disagree with"
Woke Right huh
I think this is also a reflection on self awareness.
Why would a millennial identify as a boomer?
Isn't that what we are to zoomers hah
"Republicans are racist" ftfy
If anyone my age says they're a racist to my face I will punch teeth in.
They probably don't have a lot of teeth to begin with.
I'm not at all surprised by this, TBH. For all the dunking there is on boomers, they spent their formative years during the Civil Rights era, no?
And Gen Y (at least the younger ones) spent their formative years just when things like social media and forums and so on really got going. Where people are and have been trying to curate and groom more white supremacists. Often behind screen names, etc...
It's not that boomers aren't racist, they just don't believe they're racist. Their version of racism is very narrow, basically limited to calling for the outright murder of all black people. Anything short of that is just "normal" in their eyes.
Millenials have grown up with a more nuanced definition, though, so those racists understand that they're racist and also know how to hide and obscure it.
There is much more nuance these days. Some anti-racist literature even says that we are all racist but that we can work on not being prejudice. These books will say that part of being anti-racist is seeing that racism exists in lots of ways and that we shouldn't be denying that these things exist, we should be working on reducing the harm from it.
This.
Seems obvious. Boomers are racist but dont even know it. Millennials who are racist choose to be.
Boomers aren't racist in their own eyes because to them what they say is just the way it is. They didn't make themselves better than all 'those' people. Its just the way things are. The flip side of that is I've heard some brown skin people make the same claims that they can't be racist and only white folks can be racist. Far fewer of them though than these heaving slack jawed maga idiots I have to walk around in walmart because they are way too important to be polite.
Now ask both groups if they believe dinosaurs existed for millions of years.
That's not even possible when the earth is 4000 years old and the american education system has failed them
I am racist against Republicans.
I am a bigot to Republicans is more to the point for me
This just sounds like more of that "millennials killed X" shit from 10 years ago. They've been dogging us since the start, man.
My new political alignment chart compares racism with caring about being seen as racist.
So do we actually care anymore that being racist is the problem here or is it just finding new distractions such as intersectional infighting like ageism for hairs to split now?
I don't really understand what you mean, intersectionality is about caring about multiple societal issues, such as ageism, racism and class consciousness.
It's not about infighting, it's about uniting the whole working class. The ruling class preys upon our in-group biases to divide us. Intersectionality is how we resist that attempt to divide us.
Way to miss context.
Duh