• nik282000@lemmy.ml
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    Pretty much, most of the gen x I work with are indistinguishable from boomers at this point.

    kids don’t want to work these days

    people need to just save more money

    immigrants are taking all the jobs

    [2hrs of scrolling]

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      I was in a “generational diversity” course at work recently where we would break apart and talk about what behaviors are common among each generation and why, and how to be good leaders for each generation. We started with the “greatest” generation and the “silent” generation and worked our way down in age. Everything started so respectful and nice for the old folks, even excusing their shortcomings when one was actually brought up due to how they were raised and the tough circumstances they grew up under. By the time we got to millennial and gen z, things took a turn. Even the instructor was laying on the judgement pretty thick. “They have had everything handed to them growing up so they don’t appreciate hard work”, “[…] participation trophies […]”, etc

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      Those are the genx’ers that now have wealth… the genx’ers without a pot to piss in are… err… pissed.

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    I’m definitely too old, but as a Millennial I love Gen Z. They got their funny internet things, their doom memes, their music, and I say go for it. They’re picking up and running with the rights for all, they’re more open than we even are, and it’s just awesome to see. People love to make fun of the younger generation but are so quick to forget what we were actually like back then.

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      Millenial representative #2: Completely agree. Gen Z is so sensitive, smart and respectful, I love them. I run a lot of tabletop RPGs like D&D and had an all-Gen Z group back in 2021. My favorite memory is them explaining the Ohio meme to me. The kids are alright.

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          Millenial here, I wager it’s about Jake Paul. Listen to the song “It’s everday bro” if you dare.
          I am assuming this is it not what they are referring to.

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    Anyone has that meme with Space-Marine-style Millienial protecting lil-Gen-Z guy with his sword, saying “they fucked us real good, no?” or something.

    It was here a couple weeks ago.

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    I am Gen X, and I am pretty sure that people who group other people by age are retards who desperately long to be part of a group that just has to be better than the others. 50 years from now, the same kind of people will complain how Gen Z politicians were responsible for the genocidal war.

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          Assuming you’re asking in good faith:

          “Retard” used to be a largely medical term used to refer to mentally disabled people. It’s common usage in the past 10 years or so has been “bad, stupid, less than, etc”. By using the term that way, you’re passively connecting disabled people to that concept of “bad, stupid, less than, etc”. I think it’s also considered a slur lately

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            And that is exactly why this term is appropriate in this context: people who categorize other people based solely on their age lack the mental capacity to realize the gross unsuitability of this classification. Also, their approach is usually deliberately hurtful. It is simultaneously stupid and evil. This is why the term „retard“ is appropriate here. It would not be appropriate to address an individual or a group with an actual mental disability.

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    Yes!

    Gen Z is a bunch of brats full of cringe, but at least they’re not actively fucking us over.

    Also, what is gen X? Just kidding. I know what they are, just not what they’ve done exactly…

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      I don’t cringe at the generations after me, I cringe at the old farts that came before. I am rooting for those that come after me. I am nearly 30 now, so my time is coming to an end. I want my headstone to say “bash the fash”.

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    I’m a liberal progressive GenXer and my workplace is full of MAGA millenials. I thought I would be OK when the boomers started to die off from heart disease, but here we are.

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    Can confirm. Fight the power, fuck the system and all that jazz. I was told it was my “maximalism of the youth”, a phase that would pass, but I only become more and more radical in my views as I mature, so that was a fucking lie.

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        You poor? Usually people get more conservative the more wealth they accumulate. I’ve got barely anything to my name which might be why I slowly getting more and more radicalized on the left. That and you know reality.