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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Exactly, which is why the comment I was responding to…

  Most boomers spent the 60s beating the shit out of Civil Rights protestors and spitting on children because their schools were desegregated.

  …was wrong.

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  • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s correct in the South and parts of the Midwest (this stuff happened in the 80s and 90s too).

    Still happening in a few southern areas.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Okay, let me try again:

      It was happening in the ‘60s, but it was the boomers’ parents – the Silent Generation – perpetrating it because the boomers were still mostly teenagers at the time.

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      • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There is no miscommunication here. We understand what you’re saying. Do you think that kids weren’t bullying each other? Those black kids walking into a formerly white school were NOT welcomed with open arms by their classmates.

        Sure, the Boomers learned it from their parents, and probably weren’t nearly as bad as the Silents, but they were still pretty racist as a whole.

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