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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not stereotyping people based on age.  It's criticizing the REAITY of what this country has become under the Boomers' watch.
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Let's have a little perspective on the "boomer watch" I was born in 1964, which makes me a boomer by one year.

*In 1969 a boomer walked on the moon
*In 1968 two were assasinated for being brave enough to try to change their world
*between 1969 and 1974 thousands of boomers left the country because they refused to be part of an unjust war. Because of them we have an all volunteer military and you can "travel the world" not go get killed in Afghanistan
* In the 1950's we legalized teh sale of the birth control pill, triggering the beginning of the sexual revolution. You are welcome !
* We invented Rock and Roll, the music industry, the sports industry
* we got rid of bill boards lining every inch of our nations highways
* we made sure black people could vote without getting hanged for trying
* we stopped calling them "negroes" and "colored people"
* we demanded equal sports for girls in all schools
* we put the fear of being sued into every pig operating against women in the work force
* we changed rape laws
* we got rid of the electric chair
* we started the exercize , fitness, and health food craze
* we invented the leisure skiing industry
* we eliminated small pox from the face of the earth and slowed the AIDS epidemic to a crawl
* we invented the cell phone, the computer and the internet

KISS OUR ASS

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The first few things on your list weren't boomers.  They were Greatest Generation members.

As for created the fitness industry, it was during the boomer rise that obesity rates soared.

And as for all of the civil rights accomplishments, I feel like many Boomers are hypocrites when it comes to race.  Don't even get me started on white flight and NIMBYism.

I don't think Gen X or Gen Y or any other generation is necessarily "better," but I'm tired of the Boomers taking credit for everything good and blaming others for everything bad.  Even with issues like rape, the Boomers weren't all on the same page.  A lot of those fights were Boomers against Boomers.

In conclusion, it's the self-righteousness of the Boomers that kind of stirs up bad feelings.  I'm tired of hearing them wax eloquent about how great they were.  Some Boomers did good work; others did very damaging things to society and the environment.  It's the collective patting on the back that makes people irritated.[/quote]

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