Thank you, these threads get so frustrating. Every thread where boomers get mentioned, there’s so much hate, and a lot of questionable information. Younger generations have done so good about fighting intolerance, and have a lot of the credit for progress with women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, etc., but so many people seem completely comfortable making sweeping generalizations about boomers all being money grubbing misogynistic bigots. I don’t think this community would stand for it if people said “I can’t wait until they’re all dead” about any other group, but I see it regularly about boomers.
And a lot of the impressions are just wrong. Here’s a Pew research chart on the 2020 election demographics by age. Yes, it does show that there are more older Trump voters than older Biden voters, but take a look at the magnitude of the differences - it’s very small. Also notice that the difference between the number of younger Trump voters and younger Biden voters isn’t that great either.
People think all the older people are wearing MAGA hats and all the younger people are wearing pride shirts, but the reality is the amount that the age groups skew one way or the other isn’t that huge. There are tons of liberal older people (like me) and lots of conservative younger people.
Thank you, these threads get so frustrating. Every thread where boomers get mentioned, there’s so much hate, and a lot of questionable information. Younger generations have done so good about fighting intolerance, and have a lot of the credit for progress with women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, etc., but so many people seem completely comfortable making sweeping generalizations about boomers all being money grubbing misogynistic bigots. I don’t think this community would stand for it if people said “I can’t wait until they’re all dead” about any other group, but I see it regularly about boomers.
And a lot of the impressions are just wrong. Here’s a Pew research chart on the 2020 election demographics by age. Yes, it does show that there are more older Trump voters than older Biden voters, but take a look at the magnitude of the differences - it’s very small. Also notice that the difference between the number of younger Trump voters and younger Biden voters isn’t that great either.
People think all the older people are wearing MAGA hats and all the younger people are wearing pride shirts, but the reality is the amount that the age groups skew one way or the other isn’t that huge. There are tons of liberal older people (like me) and lots of conservative younger people.