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What's a current or growing trend only you seem to have concerns about? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by HouseWolf@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

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[–] severien@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They grew up with the countries best safety net and support and then proceeded to pull up the ladder after them.

Well, my parents didn't have any such benefits (and generally had much harder life than my generation), and didn't pull any ladder, yet they are "guilty" by the virtue of being born in the wrong years.

Doesn't seem right to me.

And it’s only when they complain about younger people when it really comes up.

Nah, it comes up all the time on social media on its own.

[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What’s their behavior like now? Comparing that kids have it too easy? Advocating for not improving things because they had it tougher? If no, they aren’t the problem and shouldn’t feel it’s directed to them.

[–] severien@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If no, they aren’t the problem and shouldn’t feel it’s directed to them.

"boomers" is a name of a generation, not of political affiliation or attitude to youngsters. People don't choose their year of birth.

It's not much different from e.g. gender or racial stereotyping and what you're saying is pretty similar to "if you're not lazy, don't feel offended, you can think of yourself as honorary white".

[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's more a mindset than a generation. Someone that just happens to have been born during those years that possess none of those traits is not going to be criticized. Millennials and Gen Z get lumped together on certain topics too, and it doesn't really matter the year they were born but the opinion they are backing.

[–] severien@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Rewrite this with "black" instead of "boomer" and see how it looks like.

[–] TheWoozy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's your version of fox news? Somethings crammed a bunch of bigoted stereotypes into your brain.

[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

How could you possibly construe "shouldn't feel it's directed to them" into bigoted stereotypes? You shouldn't feel any allegiance to a stereotype, so if you don't have those qualities why are you defending those that do?