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I disagree.  "under their watch" is not the same as "they were responsible" and it certainly does not suggest causation.  No, "under their watch" means that they didn't stop it; not that they're responsible for it.   9/11 happened under Bush's watch.  It doesn't mean that he's responsible for it or that he was the cause, but it does suggest that he shares some responsibility for not preventing it.

The Baby Boomers may not be solely responsible for the changes that happened, but I agree with the PP that they played a role in it.

And the PP never suggested that other generations don't have their issues either.  [b]The problem is that I hear Baby Boomers all the time claim that they single-handedly brought about civil rights and women's rights.  And yes, they did a lot for those causes.  But they can't take credit for those things but then claim that they played no role in some of the negative things that happened.  [/b]

But with both the good and the bad, part of it is the momentum of history and forces/trends that were in play long before the results.  [/quote]But here's the problem I have with your thinking on this. You hear some (probably fatuous, self-centered) baby boomers take credit for civil rights and women's rights and you treat them as representatives of the whole generation. You should go back and argue with the people who made that claim rather than casting aspersions on a whole group of people who happened to be their age.

FTR, to act as if some generation deserves some special credit because they happen to come of age when a particular movement shifted into high gear is ridiculous and shows genuine ignorance of how social movements work so I have no respect for baby boomers who act as if they deserve a medal for accomplishments achieved by the civil rights and women's rights movement.  (Not to mention that there were lots of baby boomers who were completely uninvolved in these movements.) And I watched far too many young people waste time wishing they had come of age in the 60s as if social change were impossible unless you were at the center of a mass movement. Activism takes many forms and there were lots of people who came before the mass movements of the 60s who laid the foundation for them, whose work was just as important those we remember from the modern civil rights movement.

I'm sorry you had to deal with those people who are ignorant about how social movements work and who apparently don't appreciate the work of those who went before them. But you need to not make the same mistake and assume they are speaking for the entire generation.[/quote]

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