Comment by queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml on "Weak men create hard times"

Not all boomers are white.

That’s hilarious, do you also say that with your “death to America” hexbear buddies?

Even younger boomers had a decent chance of getting a job that you could raise a family with just a high school degree and older ones could be pretty successful.

Read this very carefully. Do you think this applied to Black people in 1960?

Lol of course not, so I’ll repeat myself and say it’s funny how this never comes up in the “death to America” and “such and such is the West’s fault” of the other hexbear posts you comment in. I know you’re being a contrarian teenager right, but that’s the kind of stuff that makes hexbear posters look dumb.

I have no idea what you’re even trying to say.

This thread is a circle jerk about how boomers had it easy. I just wanted to remind people that it was only the white ones that had it easy, and in particular, the able-bodied straight Christian men.

“death to America”

So mad about it that you had to mention it twice unprompted.

“Fellas, does mention common refrains of someone you’re talking with make you MAD??”

yes. do you believe all black people in 1960 were on welfare? Do you believe no black people in 1960 had decent jobs. Discrimination is about relative opportunity of the time and believe it or not they do not have it better now. Heck we are losing much of what came out of the 60’s.

I believe that Black boomers didn’t have everything handed to them like white boomers, among other oppressed groups.

Times are easy or hard depending on who you are and your place in class society.

I never said boomers had everything handed to them. In a nutshell I said times were overall easier and have been getting worse since.

Times were not overall easier for everyone under segregation. You’re just looking at history through a white lens.

this is true. not sure what it has to do with my comment but true.

Your comment makes sweeping generalizations about boomers as if they all had it easy. I want to remind people that this really only applied to a select group of specially elevated boomers. A white man could have what you say, good fucking luck if you were a Black woman though.

Not all white men. I specifically pointed out its not the case with all individuals.

Only white men, though. They, as a cohort, definitely had it easy like no one else. Particularly straight able-bodied Christians.

not true. as a matter of fact creating a black upper class was a key strategy to break the direction and unity of the civil rights movement.

That could apply to individuals, like you said, but you can’t apply it broadly like you can apply privileges to white men.

Furthermore, they’re doing the same thing today so that literally hasn’t even changed.

But defeating the civil rights movement was more about killing off the leaders.

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