Woa! Since when did Boomer-bashing become a progressive strategy? Does the fact that Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders belong to the same generation make all their contemporaries Trumpers or all of them Sandersnistas? Why are you, Allison, of all people, parroting the MSM party line and playing the generation blame game? As social analysis it’s about as helpful as astrology.
My critiques of boomers are more about a social analysis of the generational politics between boomers and millennials, and are meant more out of a place of humor than valid critique. I'm not parroting any MSM line, I'm simply calling out the absurdity of its existence and having fun with the reality, that, well, a lot of bad things happened while Boomers were in charge. If that's what you have a problem with, that's something to take up with the rest of your generation, rather than being mad at a millennial for calling it like it is. The thing that strikes me as indicative of Boomers is a general recalcitrance and refusal to acknowledge their role in how we got to here. Self-awareness is key.
Some of us boomers got threatened with expulsion from our high schools for protesting the Vietnam War, fought for Black Studies on our college campuses, then went on to work at Ms. Magazine for $5k a year and no help from Daddy and Mommy on paying our Manhattan rents, then went off to grad school (again with no help from our Greatest Generation parents who were now busy going to Hawaii, Cancun and various Caribbean resorts two or three times a year) in order to teach and write about African American art and race representation in the visual arts. Some of us held our noses and voted for Dems in every presidential election from 1972 on (except 2000 when I voted for Nader). The thing about being a progressive in a reactionary society is one seldom sees our side win or sees our rare victories go unchallenged. So what exactly is “our role” in producing the status quo?
Woa! Since when did Boomer-bashing become a progressive strategy? Does the fact that Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders belong to the same generation make all their contemporaries Trumpers or all of them Sandersnistas? Why are you, Allison, of all people, parroting the MSM party line and playing the generation blame game? As social analysis it’s about as helpful as astrology.
My critiques of boomers are more about a social analysis of the generational politics between boomers and millennials, and are meant more out of a place of humor than valid critique. I'm not parroting any MSM line, I'm simply calling out the absurdity of its existence and having fun with the reality, that, well, a lot of bad things happened while Boomers were in charge. If that's what you have a problem with, that's something to take up with the rest of your generation, rather than being mad at a millennial for calling it like it is. The thing that strikes me as indicative of Boomers is a general recalcitrance and refusal to acknowledge their role in how we got to here. Self-awareness is key.
Some of us boomers got threatened with expulsion from our high schools for protesting the Vietnam War, fought for Black Studies on our college campuses, then went on to work at Ms. Magazine for $5k a year and no help from Daddy and Mommy on paying our Manhattan rents, then went off to grad school (again with no help from our Greatest Generation parents who were now busy going to Hawaii, Cancun and various Caribbean resorts two or three times a year) in order to teach and write about African American art and race representation in the visual arts. Some of us held our noses and voted for Dems in every presidential election from 1972 on (except 2000 when I voted for Nader). The thing about being a progressive in a reactionary society is one seldom sees our side win or sees our rare victories go unchallenged. So what exactly is “our role” in producing the status quo?