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Millennials horrified by vicious insults from younger generation: ‘Why are they so furious at us?'
Yahoo ^ | June 15, 2020 | Kelsey Weekman

Posted on 06/17/2020 9:47:27 AM PDT by C19fan

Each generation has its own stereotype. Baby Boomers are known for being technologically challenged and intolerant to change. Millennials are apparently overly sensitive and kill everything. Gen Z is known for its obsession with social media and lack of focus. According to the American Psychological Association, these stereotypes are often wrong, and can even be harmful in an age-diverse workplace. Generally, there is tension between the youngest and oldest generations in a shared space, like Gen Z and “Boomers,” but the latest battle in the generational wars is between Gen Z and millennials, Twitter user local__celeb uncovered a series of TikTok comments in which younger users roasted the generation ahead of them.

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To: RedStateRocker

Which generation got laid the most.


21 posted on 06/17/2020 10:13:02 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Salamander

I was born in 1960. Can I play both cards, Boomer/Xer, to get what I want? (/s)


22 posted on 06/17/2020 10:14:42 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: C19fan
Baby Boomers are known for being technologically challenged.

I don't get this one at all. We were there when technology started to have more widespread use. I returned to graduate school one fall to find the library had replaced the card catalog drawers with computers. I owned an Apple IIe. All of my work for nearly forty years has involved use of computers and other technology. I love being able to write and edit or correct errors without typing the whole damned thing all over again. I've used cellphones so long that I don't remember exactly when I started using them. I'm a huge fan of the internet. I like carrying volumes of books around on my Kindle. That is probably the experience of most people of my generation. Where I draw the line is using technology for everything. I can turn on the lights or the faucet myself. I don't need to have my refrigerator hooked up to the internet.

23 posted on 06/17/2020 10:15:14 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: Mastador1

My experience differs. We’ve got our first batch of gen Z age kids at work, and they’re all ambitious and keen to add the needed practical skills of our trade that they didn’t learn in school. Which is normal.

In fairness, we take a lot of care in hiring, and try to select only diligent and conscientious people in the first place.

The individual attitude is what matters, not the media-driven “generational” groupings.


24 posted on 06/17/2020 10:18:08 AM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Probably the boomers, but the ones who really had the fun were probably too high to remember :-)


25 posted on 06/17/2020 10:19:59 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
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To: stanne

I agree and would add for myself the ability to discern right from wrong, foresee both good and bad outcomes of my decisions, and the deep sense of shame I might bring upon my family if I did something illegal.


26 posted on 06/17/2020 10:20:39 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: C19fan

As a baby boomer my “give a crap” card has expired.

I am at the age where it no longer matters (to me) what the younger generation does. If they want to vote in a socialist dictator or erase all their history from the public square I say go for it. They will have to live with the consequences.

Me I will be dead and gone (and forgotten) in a few years so I don’t have any skin in the game.


27 posted on 06/17/2020 10:22:59 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: reed13k

[I was born immediately after the boomer gen but don’t consider myself an X - I’ve always thought of myself as a Trough kid]

“Generation Jones”


28 posted on 06/17/2020 10:23:29 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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To: wbarmy

I was born in January 1960 as the last of 8 children and consider myself to be a Boomer as I was always considered an old soul amongst my family.


29 posted on 06/17/2020 10:23:46 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: RedStateRocker
Anybody still living with their parents is not yet an adult.

Unless they are taking care of their parents, in which case, their parents are living with them.

30 posted on 06/17/2020 10:23:47 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: AppyPappy
I’m a Boomer and like most Boomers, we don’t care what anyone thinks.

That's because we don't hang out all day on Facebook or Twitter (which were designed as social sheep herding tools IMHO)


31 posted on 06/17/2020 10:26:06 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

I don’t get this one at all. We were there when technology started to have more widespread use. I returned to graduate school one fall to find the library had replaced the card catalog drawers with computers. I owned an Apple IIe. All of my work for nearly forty years has involved use of computers and other technology. I love being able to write and edit or correct errors without typing the whole damned thing all over again. I’ve used cellphones so long that I don’t remember exactly when I started using them. I’m a huge fan of the internet. I like carrying volumes of books around on my Kindle. That is probably the experience of most people of my generation. Where I draw the line is using technology for everything. I can turn on the lights or the faucet myself. I don’t need to have my refrigerator hooked up to the internet. “

I’m a boomer and in 78 owned my own company with three what they used to call “mini” computers. Those were the ones that were a big steel desk with a built in screen and keyboard. Migrating off those boat anchors to PCs in 84 I have been on every version of Microsoft’s platform through XP, Vista - was a Microsoft tester for that one - Win 7 and now Win 10. Also own four or five Apple products.

Not really trained for this - I was an English and philosophy major - but boomers are quick to learn new technology and I trained younger boomers and Xers aournd me for years. Have an X cousin who once tried to tell me that “We are the computer generation and you are the TV generation.” I told her that I was on computers when when was three years old.


32 posted on 06/17/2020 10:27:49 AM PDT by angry elephant (My MAGA cap is from a rally in Washingon state in May 2016)
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To: C19fan

Pre boomer/mid-greatest generation here. Sort of the not suffering fools gladly/George Carlin school of philosophy.


33 posted on 06/17/2020 10:28:34 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: C19fan

I am a Millennial and this generation is pure cringe.


34 posted on 06/17/2020 10:30:08 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: AppyPappy

The proper response when one of those little punks says “OK, Boomer” is “F**K YOU, P*SSY!”

Just don’t do it at work. It will get you called into the HR witch’s office for assignment of mandatory sensitivity training.

Don’t ask how I know that. lol


35 posted on 06/17/2020 10:31:30 AM PDT by Augie
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To: C19fan

Gen X was busy making money, being industriust, and providing good homes for their families. So busy and successful in fact that their millennial children grew up extremely pampered and spoiled rotten.


36 posted on 06/17/2020 10:32:03 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: absalom01
Well I don't know what your trade is, but in every generation, especially Boomer and Z, among the chaff there are those who have good instincts and the desire to work hard and earn their own way. The fact that the ones you have experience with made the effort to learn a trade proves that.

My experience with co workers and those I interact with in retail or office settings as well as the experiences of friends that are business owners are what I have to go on. And what I have observed is that the ride is going to be bumpier not smoother, and I don't necessarily blame parents who cannot (if they even want to) counter the brainwashing of their children in school, the media and probably the music they listen to.

37 posted on 06/17/2020 10:37:29 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: C19fan
The good thing about being a Xer is we are ignored so one can just sit, relax, and enjoy the intergenerational destruction.

We're the Jan Brady of the generations. Bommers, Boomers, Boomers!

My high schooler was making fun of me just yesterday by telling me 'we've moved on from ripping boomers and now millenials are the ones we hate. Don't worry dad, we don't care about GenX, you guys don't matter to us'. Sometimes it's good to be Jan.

38 posted on 06/17/2020 10:38:28 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: C19fan
The good thing about being a Xer is we are ignored

Amen to that! We grew up in simpler times and don't expect much from those around us. It's a much less stressful outlook to life.

39 posted on 06/17/2020 10:39:12 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: C19fan

Late Boomer here.

Kicked a Millennials ass 2 weeks ago. They were never spanked. Never taught respect. Never got their ass kicked when they were younger.

Yeah. It was worth it. Maybe he’ll learn to respect his elders? He disrespected my girlfriend, me. Laughed in my face, wanted to know “what I was gonna do about it old man?”. He found out.

Not really blaming this guy in the article. Except to say you run your mouth you better be ready to back it up. Or just shut up and take it. 5/1 is not very good odds. Chances are he learned nothing.


40 posted on 06/17/2020 10:41:22 AM PDT by saleman
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