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I’ll start:

Idaho - when people think “racism in the United States” their minds go to the Deep South. The Deep South is absolutely pretty bad, and there’s of course the whole history with the confederacy so it makes sense that’s what we think of, but Idaho is let off the hook way too much given that it’s a hotbed of Nazis and Christian nationalists trying to form a white ethnostate. Idaho needs to be more closely linked to virulent racism like the Deep South currently is. And tbh I’ve been to the Deep South, I like it down there, it’s actually pretty diverse in many areas, if I had to live there it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world. You couldn’t pay me to set foot in Idaho.

Gen X - look, if we’re gonna do generational warfare gen x needs a lot more hate. Sorry to any xers out there but boomers have been punching bags for a while, millenials are starting to get a good amount of hate, and they’ve always been made fun of for their Harry Potter and office love, tbh a lot of millennial shit is just considered cringe these days, gen z obviously gets all the “ugh what’s wrong with the youth” hate and this new media cycle has them being portrayed as pretty much the new hitler youth. Gen x needs to start getting some more hate, especially now with all these weird gen x venture capitalists influencing the trump admin trying to realize their vision of a neo fascist network state

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

millenials are starting to get a good amount of hate

Bro people have always hated us, boomers hated us, now gen X and zoomers hate us lmao. We are cheesy as fuck nerds because advertising tried too hard to sell us "cool" when we were kids so when we hit our twenties we instead embraced being cringe as shit. Well, some of us did, the others became Ben Shapiro's.

gen z obviously gets all the “ugh what’s wrong with the youth

Which is funny because gen Z aren't even that young anymore but they do seem super obsessed with generational warfare

Anyway no, I'm not going to hate gen X because generational warfare is stupid and phases like 'gen -insert letter-' were just invented by marketing to categorise advertising demographics.

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I love millennials, so many of the based people I know are in that age range. And all the least are Gen X 🤔

[–] ratboy@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

Thank you for not thinking we are cringe kitty-cri-texas it sucks because the kinda mainstream stereotypical millenials are pretty damn cringy but a lot of that we left in our highschool years. I was always cool though big-cool (NOT)

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

I know shitty and based people from Boomer, X , Millennial and Z.

[–] ratboy@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

I think it's the last 1/3 of the gen-z'ers that seem to think millenials are super cringe. My gen z friends that are in their late 20s are dope.

[–] someone@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Which is funny because gen Z aren't even that young anymore but they do seem super obsessed with generational warfare

orly

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

Some are hitting their 30s now iirc

These generation labels have a wide range though so not all of them. Another reason why these labels are stupid.

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know how to interpet this, but zoomers definitely hate gen x/boomers a lot

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've seen a lot of hate from them towards literally every other generation, especially gen alpha for having "brain rot"

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

shrug-outta-hecks I guess that's fair, just thinking about the zoomers I know and they all think brainrot is funny.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, again the labels are dumb and a lot of zoomers aren't like that. A lot of zoomers have a great sense of humour.

Lol that’s why I said if we’re gonna do. It’s stupid, but everybody these days seems really into it so if we’re gonna go down that path I say gen x should get more hate