Topic: Why do Generation X not get hate?
Anonymous A started this discussion 9 years ago #63,586
Millennials get hate. Baby boomers get hate. But why not the generation in between both of them? The closest thing I've seen to Gen X hate is Obama hate since Obama is Gen X.
FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 8 minutes later[^] [v] #794,526
Because while the "Millenial generation" spans a period of 30 years or so, Gen X spans 6-ish years. This is precisely why the whole business of generational labels is retarded.
Svet !jzYkdX7lIw joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #794,530
Because we're best gen
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Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 9 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #794,582
Obama was born before 1965/66, the typically quoted border years, so he's placed in the boomer range.
As to hating generation X, they were often described as slackers, practically with a capital S, meaning not merely lazy but persuing slack as a way of life. The more generous descriptions described lack of opportunity compared to boomers who found it easier to get anywhere in life. There were also descriptions of bitterness and cynicism compared to the hippie youth, although it was the later boomers that saw the growth of punk rock and first wave industrial music. The generation X youth actually got to witness the rave/electronic scene come to fruition, and see indie label "college" rock become major label alternative rock. But then they all took too much heroin and killed themselves. Only Beck Hansen survives; the loser became the winner.
As to hating generation X, they were often described as slackers, practically with a capital S, meaning not merely lazy but persuing slack as a way of life. The more generous descriptions described lack of opportunity compared to boomers who found it easier to get anywhere in life. There were also descriptions of bitterness and cynicism compared to the hippie youth, although it was the later boomers that saw the growth of punk rock and first wave industrial music. The generation X youth actually got to witness the rave/electronic scene come to fruition, and see indie label "college" rock become major label alternative rock. But then they all took too much heroin and killed themselves. Only Beck Hansen survives; the loser became the winner.
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Sheila LaBoof double-posted this 9 years ago, 12 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #794,586
J.R. Bob Dobbs, the fictional patriarch of The Church of Subgenius, a fictional Church that melded evangelical promotion with conspiracy theories of illuminatiSvet !jzYkdX7lIw replied with this 9 years ago, 17 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #794,588
@794,576 (E)
What's funny about That? We're all 39 at some point unless you die young in which case I'm winning.
What's funny about That? We're all 39 at some point unless you die young in which case I'm winning.
FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI replied with this 9 years ago, 1 hour later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #794,597
@794,531 (Svet !jzYkdX7lIw)
I think it ought to be, but my marketing text book showed it as a tiny demographic, which is why I say the whole business is garbage.
I think it ought to be, but my marketing text book showed it as a tiny demographic, which is why I say the whole business is garbage.
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Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 1 hour later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #794,617
Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 7 hours later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #794,662
Because we, Generation X, did not do anything bad. We invented the internet, cell phones, personal computers, we had the 1980s with its cocaine, money, and music, etc. We are the best.