• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Okay, but my point, that Black boomers didn’t have it easy, is still true.

    Also generations are bullshit - they were made up by advertisers! They’re totally arbitrary.

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      2 months ago

      many people don’t have have it easy now, including black people. Hippie was a thing, yuppie was a thing, reagan democrats were a thing, Xers not trying in the system was a thing. tic toc is a thing. these were popular among certain groups of people at certain times and define generations. there is no hard or soft cutoff is true and its all approximation and class is far more defining than anything else no matter where you feel (if you actually realize the class your in). Its not completely arbitrary though

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        2 months ago

        It’s completely arbitrary, especially towards the edges of the time period. A boomer born 1946 had a wildly different life than a boomer born 1964, and a boomer born in 1964 has way more in common with a Gen Xer born in 1965.

        Age cohorts are real, but “generations” are just arbitrary groupings.

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          2 months ago

          yeah I mentioned the same about with the hard/soft cutoffs but generations are as much a thing as nationalities. its a shared experience and trends and such. I laugh because I live near my high school and they have these boards on the fence with all these awards and accomplishments for teams and clubs over the years but there is a big gap for the 80’s and 90’s. My generation representing.