Pretty much all those Karen compilations are Gen X-aged people, who should fucking know better but clearly don't. Millennials are on watch too, but we don't have enough wealth to be as shitty. Zoomers are going to save us all.

  • onwardknave [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    As a GenXer, I am pretty sure the reason is that growing up, we had NO class consciousness. Anything close to leftist thought was dismissed as fad culture, like "oh, it's just like the Hippy movement." Learning to really care about anything takes real fucking effort AND critical thinking... so GenXers who "should fucking know better but don't" (i.e. a majority) are totally that because of herd inertia. Zoomers are the first generation that has a real chance (still) to have its collective class-consciousness awoken. We all have to remember that the statistics of Silent Gen, Boomers, GenXers, and even Millenials are tilted right especially in the US -- it is not the generation that is to blame... it is always the capitalists in each generation.

    • Tittyskittles [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      The biggest political movements for gen x was “save Tibet” and “rock the vote” . That tells one all about the state of things then

      • lvysaur [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Save hong kong and go out and vote

        nothing ever actually changes

    • cracksmoke2020 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      To be fair, the Reagan thing had already happened and there really wasn't much political discourse within the country back then. Elites (both in terms of wealth and random folks within the broader intellegencia) were essentially completely unified in how they felt the country should move forward during the Bush 41 and Clinton years.

      The Iraq war, the internet (and the social change that happened because of it, especially as it relates to religion), and the longer term effects of neoliberalism left the intellegencia totally unsure how to move forward.

        • cracksmoke2020 [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          Celebrity populism played a role in the popularity of Reagan just as it does with Trump.

          But he was popular because deregulating the economy creates a ton of jobs and opportunity in the short term. It's just that all that wealth is captured now and no one can ever catch up.