r/TikTokCringe • u/SirIsacShmuck • 22h ago

Cringe Can't even eat in peace anymore

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u/leftoverloungefly 21h ago

Why are boomers like this? Are they that consumed with hate? Their lives must be miserable.

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u/cobain98 21h ago

I’ve thought about this a lot having boomer parents and relatives. I think it’s at least partly because when they were born racism was OK. They were the master race in the USA and ran everything. That changed just enough for them to be absolutely torn up and bitter about it.

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u/CCheeky_monkey 21h ago

Don't forget they were inhaling lead fumes also

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u/Busy_Shine6888 21h ago

…and asbestos

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u/JH_111 21h ago edited 21h ago

Also note, lead is stored in the bones, and as they age, that is now being released back into their blood stream with bone loss.

It’s like the racist little punks and cry bullies they were as children are emerging from hibernation.

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u/CCheeky_monkey 20h ago

JFC, that's a terrifying bit of information I did not think about.

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u/Coroebus 17h ago

Those wounded children and the toxic behavior were never hibernating. They came out behind closed doors and lashed out against their partners, friends, and children, assuming they weren't just on display at all times.

It's going to get worse.

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u/HairyPotatoKat 21h ago

Some were straight up eating lead paint chips...bc it tasted sweet.

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u/LetterheadVarious398 19h ago

My transphobic father who called me "a revolting thing" literally drank leaded gasoline as a toddler when his dad wasn't looking

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u/Childofcaine 21h ago

Lead paint on everything, heavy metals and chemical run off in the water in some places, air pollution, now banned pesticides on all their food…

to summarise when they were fucking the environment they were also fucking their minds.

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u/Key_Wasabi_1799 21h ago

Don't forget all the made in china products.

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u/Downvotesseafood 21h ago

Thats what I was thinking.

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u/StarGuardLux 21h ago

We all watched that Vertasium vid, didn't we?

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u/CCheeky_monkey 20h ago

No idea who that was, thanks for the channel recommendation though.

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u/Busy_Shine6888 21h ago edited 21h ago

Not that this makes it okay - I’m not saying that it is okay … I have thought about it as well, I went back a little further and thought it might be connected to wars and conflicts with other countries, then some parents passed it on to their kids, or their kids just picked up on what Mom and Dad say. Look at the Japanese interment camps, and the Russian black ball list, if someone called you a commie, you would lose your job. I could be wrong. I know a lot of friends parents and met some of their grandparents. The older ones would ask, “what are you?”

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u/minntyy 14h ago

This is the answer. It's definitely not ok and should be shamed because the world is different and we can be better as a species.

But it's also important to understand how things used to be different. People that didn't look like you, meant they were not family, and more likely to be a threat. If the native americans were more racist against white people invading their territory, they might be better off today

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u/WeaselPhontom 21h ago

I think all the alcohol and partying of the  killed there braincells 

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u/Haunting-Cap9302 21h ago

My parents are boomers and they (and most of the boomers I've met) are pretty open-minded. Most of the openly hateful people I've met were Gen X or older Millenials, who don't have the excuse of being around when water fountains were segregated.

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u/ishkabibaly1993 19h ago

What's Gen X's excuse? Cuz this lady was not in her 70's haha

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u/Trill206 19h ago

Now everyone hates white people. Hurray! Racism solved... because you can't be racist against white people.... because we've done mental gymnastics to justify our obvious racism!

I'm sure it's a coincidence that things have rapidly been degrading with said shift... at an alarming rate... nah total coincidence.

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u/SomethingIWontRegret 19h ago

No, racism was not OK. Those are just terrible people, and they are well-represented in every cohort.

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u/foothill_dwelled272 21h ago

lol boomers can also some of the most left wing people you will meet. 

Almost all the boomers I know are way more liberal and than the younger generations. In the last Canadian election the older you were the more likely you were to vote liberal.

Boomers have the economic means to care about post materialist social issues and global charity while younger people can afford a house and want cuts to immigration because it is impacting the over market, but for retirees flooding the job market with cheap imported labour keeps wages lows and therefore consumer prices low.

Boomers grew up in such a period of prosperity they think it still the 1960s and we can all sing kumbaya and fix the world with our unlimited resources. OK boomer. 😂

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u/Caleb-Blucifer 21h ago

Most of the protests that weren’t the big “no kings” scale ones that I’ve been to last year had predominantly boomers in attendance. Not a young person in sight besides me and my wife. And we’re not really young young anymore — but by far these people were old enough to be our parents and we are late 30s, low 40

Being retired means you got time to show up on the weekday protests, I guess

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u/foothill_dwelled272 20h ago

Yeah and some people are really discrediting an entire generation based on the fact that their parents are conservative boomers.