A message from Generation X ( Our silence should not be mistaken for weakness. )
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- To GEN-Y and GEN-Z, I want to convey a message. Our silence should not be misconstrued as weakness. Our strength is not an indication of hostility towards you but a source of hope for a brighter tomorrow. #genx #generationx #millenials #genxers #genz #culturewar
72 born X'er. Anyone working on a time machine? I really want to go back to the 80's and 90's.
Fellow 1972 baby Jerseygirl.❤❤
Can I join you guys? 🥺
Me too
For almost all of the 1980's and 1990's, we knew that we were going to all die of AIDS or in a mushroom cloud and businessmen were doing lines of coke because it made them work better. The hole in the Ozone layer was going to kill us if acid rain didn't get us first. There's a reason we all grew-up violent and tough: the times were violent and tough!
I like it here in 2024, with my WiFi, streaming services, 1-3 day shipping and free long distance calls. My car has a backup camera and cruise control for those long drives. I love living in the future. 😎
I’m working on something.
I’ll keep you posted.
76 🤘
I remember in the '70's, in elementary school on the west coast, still doing nuclear drills. The west coast is closer to Russia, China, et cetra...
I was on the West coast, I only think we did it a couple times when I was in first grade… Middle-ish late 70s… I also recall believing that Russia was the aggressor/enemy until my early college years, around ‘90-‘92, when I learned the Cuban Missile Crises happened because we had placed nuclear missiles in Turkey around ‘60… It was about then when I realized our government has not, nor will ever be, truthful; and, I stopped trusting our government (still a patriot, but objectively skeptical on all matters)… I also developed much more respect for my father’s advice…
Yet all missile fields and most manufacturing of military equipment ( you know primary targets ) were in the Midwest .
Before you talk sht know I grew up on several SAC bases around the country knowing if it went down I had less than 30 minutes to live .
Gen X doesn't care because we are sleeping. It's easy to not care like that, you leave us be we leave you be and we're happy. Let us sleep, because the same people wanting to wake us forget Tarantino is Gen X. And he is merely an example, he is not special. The things he does to his movie characters is stuff we're not afraid to do to a person with twenty pounds of metal and ink planted in their face to feel special while being like every one of their friends.
Hard time creates strong man (boomer & Gen x), strong man creates good time (millennials & Gen Z time), good time creates weak man (millennials & Gen Z time), weak man creates hard time (???? time)
We tried to thicken their skins, but they cried.
I remember a girl shouting "one down, a million to go!" When the challenger blew up. She got suspended...
Gen X doesn’t talk and take excuses because we didn’t get to talk and give excuses. Grow up and get yourself together. Like my daddy use to say, “Life ain’t fair!”
As GenX, we rolled with everyone who wasn't an A$$hole!!!
Damn Straight
Yup....you were either cool or a douchebag....that was it.
Right on! Nobody really knew us either, except our friends--other Gen X'ers. We had large groups of friends of every race, then smaller groups within that group and if we disliked a person it was because they were a jerk not because of skin color or religion. We weren't spoiled either because like he said our parents were from the Silent Generation and that means they were little kids during the Great Depression. I told a Millenial other day that we darned our socks, not because we were poor but because our Mom did it because that's how they rolled during the Depression so we had to suffer those lumps in our shoes where Mom darned them (and later me because as a girl I had to learn to sew haha). The Millenial woman asked me what it means to darn socks hahaha I was like sew the holes ya get in your heel or toe then walk around all day feeling like ya got a rock in your shoe. She looked at me weird lol
There were still a$$holes in GenX. And no with them, I did not roll.
Yes, yes we did. Wish it would go back to that. These people are exhausting..... Emotional vampires
We were 30 at 12.
I believe the saying is, "We turned 30 at 10, and are still in our 30s well into our 50s."
It's True. We just don't care what others say or think.
When a man feels 30 at 60, he's still ready to throw hands! And we know where to hit someone, and make it hurt.
Those of us who are Veterans have been getting ready for Red Dawn since it came out in 1984. (The crappy remake doesn't count!)
@@nowthatsjustduckyIf you havent grown up by the time you hit 50, you don't have to. Everyone's like oh you're immature and childish. No, it means I still know how to have fun and have a good time. You can pay your damn bills and still want to hang with friends and have fun when you get older. Where is this weird age cap that says once you're past 30, that's it no more fun? Sheesh, get a life!
@starscreamthecruel8026 that's why my generation has tictok.
I feel like 12 at 30.
As a Gen-X I remember our football coach saying that we had a 50/50 chance of being winners or losers. How much are you willing to work to be winners? No participation trophies in our day.
FACTS!! GEN X💪💪💪
I disagree, there were participation Trophies when we were kids. Our Participation trophies we wear as a badge of honor that is the massive 4 inch scars we still carry from wiping out and eating $hit taking our stitches like a champ and doing it over again the next day this time with better results.
So who started giving out the trophies in the first place?
'77 born here. When it comes to racism and prejudices, I think ignorance breeds contempt. Gen X is the first generation to be accepting of others because we were exposed to different cultures via media. It's easier to drop your biases when you can find the similarities. I remember how much more I loved the song "Walk this way" once DMC collaborated.
It's just bizarre how batshit obsessed Millennials and Zoomers are about race and other group traits. We literally didn't notice any of that 40 years ago.
We aren't pansies and we had to rear ourselves. What the hell do other generations want from us. We didn't have the validation and parental acknowledgement that these younger generations seem to need. Other generations want to mess with us, don't expect us to come swooping in to save you. No one saved us, we saved ourselves. Seriously, if you are looking to blame us it will fall on deaf ears. We had to do our own thing. Start learning to do your own thing. And it is finally our time to take over the bigger positions that Boomers wouldn't vacate. But, we are a smaller generation so it will be mixed.
@@annmarieknapp Zoomers and Millennials should be aware that we of the Awesome Generation, we who weaponized apathy as a tool to survive and thrive, are just nihilistic enough to put them into facial recognition databases and leave them drowning in student debt if they pull their crappe on us.
@@annmarieknapp Bzzzt. You're not GenX. Real GenX don't believe their kids should suffer, or can survive without, because we did. Go sit down.
Probably because our schools were integrated. They're, meaning the political/religious Right, is trying to roll back. If you like an open society, don't vote for the GOP, whatever you do.
Exactly!! We didn't have the racial and identity issues, we were friends- we only cared if you were a jerk or not. If you were good people you were good people.
Millennials and Gen Z will be glad we are here if the shit hits the fan. We can do shit.
Exactly! They will hate on us until one day they need us.
And they don't know how grateful they should be that We have stayed out of their business so far, but keep nipping the Lion's heel you weak little jackals. The Lion is about to wake up and you'd best be far away when that happens.
We will be the ones saving this hellhole, apparently.
@@vaderladyl
It is...our destiny.
I am sure you can, from Millennial :)
So true! As the last generation of free-range children we learned how to take hard knocks and how to back each other up. We didn't give a rap about anyone's race or orientation, if you acted right you were okay.
I remember more than enough of my fellow Gen-Xers who did indeed make a big deal about someone's race or orientation. Lumping people into generations is a pretty stupid thing to do in the first place, it's just another form of stereotyping.
Gen-Y is rather "free-range" considering that they were apparently raised without any manners or personal responsibility.
We really didn’t. The millennials started the race war.
71 genXer, our parents (or at least my parents) NEVER mentioned race. So I never thought they are black or brown. I just thought they are my friends. As far as "we don't have representation in media" but we had the Cosby show, Sanford & son, family matters, One at a time, and the Jeffersons.
Free-range children....😂😂😂😂
Amen.
We also had 'School House Rock's' that taught us lots!!!
Early nineties had school house rock too, I’m just a bill
🎶Conjunction, junction, what's your function?....🎶
Dammit! Bring back ‘School House Rocks’ immediately! Play it in schools as the day starter mantra for at least grades 1-5. And then require short form research papers every year on EACH topic for each of those five grades to pass.
I am so grateful that you brought up the Challenger explosion. That, to me, is the defining moment of why gen x is the way we are. We voted to put our own teachers on that rocket and then we watched, collectively, as it exploded. By the end of the day, we were making jokes about it. Why? Because that was how we learned to handle our trauma.
NASA…. need another seven astronauts 🤣
We started making fish food jokes within a day.
Come now, don't speak for all of us! I couldn't make jokes for at least a week!
What's an Astronauts favourite drink? ...7 Up.
What color were Mrs. Mcauliffe's eyes? Blue! One blew this way, one blew that....
Our Silence should scare them.
We're only quiet because the cops don't know where the bullet came from.... Yet.
How tough, … how bout offer dialogue instead. But you hide behind the black sheep of your generation (who get away with everything), And don’t even know it.
@@AlucardIncognito😅 agreed!
@LJSR07 I agree! They have no idea who they're messing with.
Gen X-ers like us have one middle finger pointed at the Boomers and another at the Millenials.
This Xer is sitting inbetween them, watching them fight over minor things and stealing all the popcorn :D
Boomers? That's one year before some of us? Alot of my friends are a few years older than me and just like us!! They taught us in a way?
Mostly pointed at boomers.
How do you figure? We were the first latch key figure out generation, the 1st f around and find out! Remember 59 is very close to 60! We taught the Gen x and ran the neighborhood. They came to us for advice. We showed them how to build those bike ramps and showed them how to use the tools. We were the ones that came out like kid rock with both fingers in the air! So not sure what yourctalking about? But 61 was a great year to be born! I mean cmon man seen AC/ DC 6 times, led zeppelin, Aerosmith, Van Halen, you name it! 👍
Might be pointing fingers but I still have to support both financially.
Preach it, Brother! Latch key kids unite against the Snowflakes, we got this, we are the Ninjas, the water hose drinkers! We WILL survive a zombie apocalypse with NO FEAR.
some of our water hose drinking was wrapped up with "HEY! WHO'S OUT THERE?" or "shit! these people have dobermans!" we can laugh about some things now simply because we made it thru alive. but there was no glory days.
We would survive a zombie apocalypse bc we invented it. We've had time to think about it, and most of us already have a plan.
And we survived the merry-go-round and metal slides. We latchkey kids understood our freedoms came with responsibilities. We didn't care about the color of your skin or your religion or your sexual orientation. We cared only if you were a good person.
One of the biggest differences is that they were taught and told constantly that they were special.
They are in for a Big surprise when reality kicks in, In their sheltered worlds.
My kids are special, to me. I don’t expect others to feel they are special
I think many of them actually are special… But their mama took them to school rather than the short bus…
I remember when my father told me I wasn't special. LOL
@@a.randolph8112I was told this daily lol
The problem for those of us in GenX is that once we reach our 70s, 80s and 90s, we will have to count on these younger generations. all while we deal with the mess the Boomers left all of us.
GenX still have many years of vitality left to go and during that time we’ll have to mentor the Millennials and Zoomers and toughen them up though keep in mind that the Zoomers are as screwed as they are because we GenXers as parents helicopter parented them and crushed their initiatives. We need to undo what we did.
Dude, I'm Gen X. I don't count on anyone, ever.
I love your wisdom Gen X people. Lucky to have X parents as a Millennial.
No one is gonna be able to depend on gen z or alpha as a whole. They are too self entitled and absolutely clueless.....the 1st half of the millenials will serve a bit of purpose but the rest of these kids are just bumbling through life
count on them for what
I’m a millinail who has lived a lot like you Gen X and I have the same world view as you I have a lot of respect for you I love your work ethic gen x and you have the right attitude when it comes to your attitude towards my generation and the generations below me I was born in 82 and I have been made stronger by Gen x and the boomer generation I just wish that my generation stopped crying about it because I like you a lot
As a GenX, latchkey kid, cooked my own meals at my shitty apartment with my single mom… if these kids want a fight they don’t know what they are in for. 😈
Same! My mother was a narcissist and beat me daily since I was a baby until I was 14, and other childhood traumas. Took are of my younger brother and sister, no childhood, and started working at 14. Moved out at 18 when I got my first full-time job. Never met or knew my father. I only have one child--my daugter is 16 and I had her at 37. All of this with major depression and anxiety and diagnosed at 10. I am stunned and angry at this *woke BS when they couldn't survive a day of what we went through. And get treated like sh*t at work and by society in general. WTF!
Same. Born in 1970…latchkey kid to a single, drunk, daily-violent abusive dad who died when I was 15. At 16, all alone, lived in a shitty beater car and worked at a McDonald’s so I could eat and used the school showers so I could still go to my classes and not stink the place up. Scratched and clawed year after year, making progress n increments, and worked my way up in the world. No one helped and no one gave a shit if I failed. You earned your upgrades by being valuable and grinding it out. It makes you hard as nails and extremely resourceful to endure all of that(and great with money, too). Just try to screw with us, because we are a special kind of crazy. So, when I hear the younger folks trying to label everything as unfair, too hard, and hopeless…when their circumstances are SO much better than many of us had at our disposal, I just have to shake my head in disbelief. I’m not trying to be mean, but many of them are also extremely fragile, as well. They have to be spoon-fed praise and can’t handle criticism. They fold at the first sign of resistance. Also, despite having the internet of knowledge at their fingertips, they also seem to be incapable of basic living skills, such as cooking. It’s disturbing.
Proud Gen Xer 72. grew up in a single parent house she worked all the time to provide for us. Me and my brothers learned how to fend for ourselves and take no shit. We survived and we still carry on.
Agreed, not from a single mom at all. Have 4 sibs with a stay at home mom . We fought, she had to separate us with a broom.
That means beating us apart.
I don't think they are blaming Gen-X. They are blaming their parents. As a kid growing up in the '70s and '80s, we did too. Not to the world or to our parent's faces because let's face it, we didn't have the internet and if we talked back we would get the switch. lol, It seems every generation blames the ones that came before them, and the ones that came before them hate the ones that blame them. lol, Remember we were called slackers and told we wouldn't amount to a hill of beans and we hated the Boomers for saying that. We got mad, rebellious, and fought against that idea and proved them wrong. However, it took us time. I have been lucky with my two, both of my kids were out of the house and had jobs even before they graduated high school. My daughter owned her own car and house by the time she was 22. She worked two jobs and fostered animals. My son bought his car at 16 and got his apartment at 17. He worked one job and volunteered at a local nursing home. All I am trying to say is there are always annoying people in every generation. The people who take things to the extreme. However, not all are like that. Give them a chance they may surprise us. I know my kids surprise me all the time.
They are blaming us though. I saw another video the other week that's going viral with a Millennial woman whining about what bad, neglectful grandparents we are and I'm like first of all can you count? I'm Gen X ('71) and my grandkids if/when I have them will be Gen Beta, not Gen Alpha, because neither I nor my son had kids before we got out of high school or even college. Maybe that's what they did where she grew up, but I only knew two couples my whole school career that had kids before they graduated college. Which means we were mostly over 22 at bare minimum before having kids and likely between 26 and 30 so our kids are Gen Z. Second of all we're called the helicopter generation for a reason. We're the ones that paid attention. It's the Boomers who didn't. I don't think Millennials actually know the difference.
I am almost 50 so late Gen-X and I currently am the water operator/maintenance supervisor (only employee) in which I am helping to rebuild the infrastructure of my little village and I know I am not gonna be here forever so when I get approval to bring on a new employee and I train them, they are gonna learn hard work and how respect is earned. I know it'll have to be someone from Gen-Y or Z but they will by god know how to earn respect and a paycheck.
1967 and I give zero fks.
As a gen x'er I can tell you that this was true of my upbringing too
We were taught no free rides and go out and earn yours
And we didn't need constant validation about who we were or where our place was in society
We knew and most of all we didn't give a dam
Yep! Graduated high school in 1986! Those were the daaaaayyyysss!
Amen, c/o"86"
74 X'er here. Good points, but being self-responsible and instinctively individualistic does NOT automatically lead to conservatism, at least not the insanity that is current (neocon) conservatism in America. My politics have always been far-left (anarchist/green libertarian) because the mainstream on both sides - liberals AND conservatives - have only ever been concerned with power and control. I suppose I'm "conservative" in some very personal ways, but where I grew up at least (rural midwest) the right wing was/is always about things like enforced conformity, regressive social policies, anti-intellectualism, knee-jerk distrust of science, hyper-religiosity, authoritarianism, all that. The vocal conservatives I know, GenX and otherwise, are bootlickers and disgusting examples of humanity. Just saying that qualities of personal ethics and integrity are *not* the monopoly of any one political stripe. ↘↘↘🔻🏴
Yes, my use of the term Conservative without defining what it means to me in detail. leads to some confusion and the automatic exclusion of some people who may actually feel the same way on issues. This was an error on my part, as such I have been considering doing an update to this and remedying the mistakes in my delivery.
very much appreciate the time taken for the well-thought-out comment and feedback.
Soooo true!!!! I ‘offend’ everyone bc I am straight to the point! If you don’t Shan an honest, mater-of-fact, blunt response....then, don’t ask!!! Who else is grateful for our struggle and to be born in an amazing window of time in history!!
As a gen-X employer I would say....yep...all their complaints are true...and I'm not apologizing.
Gex X were mostly raised by Silents, perhaps the most Conservative generation in our nation's history Silents believed in hard work, self-reliance, and the idea that everyone should get an equal chance (equality, not equity) at a good life. They passed these ideas on to their children. Ironically the generation before them (WWII generation) suffered far more hardships and they as parents want to make a softer bed for their kids.
I think it was 50 50 Silent/Boomers
I'm Gen X and Ace (the A of LGBTQIA+). I disagree that we are overly conservative generation. We started LGBTQAI awareness and acceptance. As kids, the term "gay" was an insult, but by the time we finished high school, we were championing queer rights. Gen X was and is the least racist generation, too, because the Civil Rights movement was embraced and cherished. In fairness, we were self-reliant, latch key kids. By 14, I was my grandmother's primary caregiver because both my parents had to work long hours. We had to do chores in order to earn an allowance. There were no participation trophies. You only got an award in you placed first, second or third. We moved out and did not move back home. I'm mid Gen X, circa 1973, and after university (with loans, grants, and scholarships), I moved by myself to Europe. I've been living in Ireland since 1999 from the age 26. Most Millennials had university paid for by their parents and then moved back in with their parents. Don't get me wrong, the 2008 financial crisis caused much of that economic instability. I don't blame Millennials, but moving back home was not an option, EVER. When things got tough, I worked shite jobs and sometimes found myself in dire housing scenarios, but I didn't blame my parents or grandparents because times were tough. We learned the value of being resilient and resourceful. In short, Gen X quietly fixed the problems, not the blame.
100% with you here, I'm part of the LGBTQ+ community and also neurodivergent, which wasn't a thing that was acknowledged to even exist where I grew up in the Bible belt. Self-reliance and responsibility for me was a matter of survival and of coping with a legitimately abusive home life as a kid in the 70's and 80's (born in 74). I think simply because the bell curve in statistics is what it is, we end up with a lot of mainstream liberals and mainstream conservatives in every generation, because of the simple fact that it's literally just that - the "main stream". Those of us who were not part of that middle ground, regardless of anything else, are gonna have divergent stories and paths. Strength in connection and networking is so important I think, because we are such small subsets of an already small generation that's instinctively prone to self-isolation anyway. And... I feel that so much, about how going home was never an option. I'd rather die, and tbh I almost did several times. Sometimes you just have to do a full break and start things from scratch.
Gen X, AroAce :) Glad I'm not the only one. I was a kid, born 1973. As I look back despite being more sheltered than my cousins across the pond and isolated by parents who didnt want me to mix with the wrong sort, I've been through a lot and survived because you couldnt grow up in the 70s without getting cynical and jaded quite early on, something that helps you survive all the crap that followed. I dont believe in hope anymore though because all it seems to do is prop up false promises.
Its simply because the goal-posts have been moved.
As a gen X i live by the "live and let live" and everyone is an individual kind of thinkning.
The vicitim olympics of the millenials made that into intersectionalistic categories where all they think about race, gender, sexuality. It comes first , last and in between.
We didnt give a fuck about that, and we still dont. A good person is a good person; a friend is a friend and an asshole is an asshole. And whoever thinks one person is better or more deserving of shit because of race, gender, sexuality or other meaningless shit (ie millenial intersectionality) is the enemy of common sense, ie gen Xers.
They love to call us conservative, when truly we are the most inclusive generation there is.
Millenials are a generation of constantly blaming others so that they never have to take a good long look at themselves.
Agreed! 1969 and ACE. Same though centrist and lean sometimes right and sometimes left or old school Liberal. We worked so hard to eradicate homophobia, racism, and get rid of a lot of labels and i feel we are going a bit backwards now. I will do what i always work hard, keep it together and live my life.
Born in 1970, latchkey kid, fkd up trauma throughout life. Excellent video! Just discovered your channel and new subbie . Best generation ever!!! 🖤🖤🖤
Born in 1970. I’m not conservative, I’m a British Socialist most of us in England ARE. I’m Autistic and trans, I’m a Metal, Rock, Goth I was accepting of people.
The rant every Gen x'r wants to let loose ha ha ha!!! Bet that felt pretty good afterward :)
Yes. Yes, it did.
Leftist GenXer here, taking responsibility for your choices and owning your shit isn't purely a conservative thing, it's a grown up thing.
It's nonsense that gen x is conservative, but then I'm a gen x from a country that is not the US (yes we exist)...
I'm gen x and progressive. I want to move this country forward, not backward. I firmly believe in equal rights for all. I believe in human rights. I believe in freedom of religion, freedom of speech, the right to protest. I believe every America, regardless of race, sexual orientation, socio economic background, or religion, or national origin should have equal access to the ballot box, without voter purges, gerrymandering. I believe healthcare is a human right, not a privilege for the wealthy few. I am against discrimination. I believe education is a public good. I believe in equal pay for equal work. I believe that when the cost of living increases, wages should increase as well.
For real! Leftist Progressive X'er reporting in.
The reason these generations are so squishy is because you wrapped them in bubble wrap and didn’t let them fall down. You reap what you sew.
No mine went to war for freedom he was raised by me his mother who is not playing with mine and others have a beautiful day
I liked the bubble wrap.
Woah back up. The laws were changed when gen x had kids, WE DIDN'T HAVE A CHOICE! ALL the things society allowed the silent and boomer generations to inflict on gen x was made illegal. Try again.
Lots of Gen X is very Liberal; depends on the geography. As to LGBT, we grew up on Boy George and Twisted Sister, we don’t have a fucking problem with how someone wants to present.
I'll never forget the wall coming down. I was raised by my grandparents because my bra burning, strong whaman mother decided that smoking meth with 1%'ers was more important than my sisters and I... anyway, my Oma was born and raised in Nazi Germany and after the war was cut off from her family in the east. Two days after the wall came down she got a call from her brother, the first time in 30+ years (they did trade the occasional letter, that is how he had our number, but they never really said anything or called due to the Stassi and their monitoring of mail and phone calls). To see the joy in that woman that day is something I will never forget. That and our cousins asking us to send them 501s!
I was born in 87. Both my parents are gen x. They raised me the way they came up and I thank them for that. I identify closer to gen x than I do with millennials. Yes we have our differences yet I don't blame them for my problems. I'm trying to raise my kids the same way. My parents provided well for us and if/when I need help now they help me. I respect gen xers majorly. Thank you to all the gen x that have helped me with life advice and all that good stuff
My parents are boomers and I was born in 87 as well. But I identified more with Gen X and still do.
No they are not gen x unless they had you as kids.
My dad was born in 68 and my mom 71
They are rebels without a clue. They need to get offline and get into the real world.
I am glad I discovered this small gem if a channell.A channel just for Gen Xers! Even if Gen Xers come from different cultures,religions,genders(only two:guys and ladies) and geographical locations..the things this spoke of will resonate with mist Gen Xers.Gen Xers as young adults in the 1980s and 190s had to earn a paycheck through physical labor even as teens still living at home.There were Mc Donalds or mall jobs or maybe Cna jobs.The Gen X men had the construction and labor jobs.We Gen Xers did not expect are bosses or team leaders to pat our backs every five minutes or buy us donuts for work done.A thank you and a paycheck for work was enough.The older adults(Boomers and older) dud nit care about Gen Xer feelings as kids.Most if Gen xers got the belt as kids and were fired from jobs if we acted out as yiung adults.There were no "safe spaces"for Gen X young adults.The Gen Z kids are such babies..expecting the world to cater to them.They are snowflakes.I am glad I never had kids.
All other generations live in la-la land, hating on the only one living in reality. Here is my advice, we were the first to fight back against those who chose to go along with evil; don't fk with us because we can return the favors in ways you couldn't even dream of. We're not conservatives, we're anarchists, against organized leadership structures; but where we were mostly peaceful. Millennials came in and ruined everything we started, now they're pissed at us? Those got another thing coming, we likely have more guns per person than any other generation combined... because we learned how to build them in high school!!
A+ video!
Fantastic, great points!
we x generation walk the walk but no talk the talk
They don’t like us because we are unbothered by their foolishness 😂
74 born gen xer we are the strong men that made good times and now we have Generation Z making hard times.
If the younger generations are so upset with us Gen X people, then why don't they come and settle it? Oh wait, we're talking about millennials and Gen Z people.... the same people who could be blown over by a small breeze.
As a Gen X'er let me sum it up we don't give a f***
I’m a Gen Xer who’s moderate to left leaning in my politics, but this new generation just goes too far in wanting to paint people as victims based on their identity. My belief is that you treat everyone equally regardless of their identity, and you rise and fall based on what you do and who you are as an individual. That’s the only true equality in my view, but to some in the younger generations, that’s being “too conservative”.
I think the identity politics is coming from the ongoing racism when it comes to police brutality and voting. It comes from ongoing struggle for equality. Certain groups are marginalized and discriminated against. What they're trying to do is raise awareness.
Think of it this way. When we were growing up, there was no childcare, no after school care, no breakfast in schools. So we changed things when we got older. We created the after school care, the child care centers because we didn't want our kids roaming the streets. It's the same thing.
Are there people that play victim a lot? Of course. But not everyone is. I taught developmental writing in Florida. When I graded essays, I graded solely on the person's writing skills, following the assignment.
If a student wrote things like "she do," I'd deduct points because it's incorrect, not the color of a student's skin.
88 here, your gen is great, big respect for some of you with big balls… but lot of gen x sold out massively. Similar to boomers, originality turned to cash grab and comfort.
Your Generation too
1980 baby. The last of GEN X. Honestly I'm tired of being so tough and strong. I'm a bus driver (blue collar). My life has been fighting, resilient, diehard etc. I need a time out from living in survival mode for the last 30 year. Just think of being in a war for 30 years no break.. I'm tired of thinking of how I'm going to make it without my rifle and shotgun. Hell, my retirement and 401k consist of a ar15 and a remington tac 13 v3 shotgun. Everytime i think I'm going to get my chance to rise up, something happens governmental and back to square 1 again.. i truly can't continue living this way. I'm trying not to snap and go outside!! If you know what i mean.. I've been working since 1992. All i have to show for it is my house.. I'm still driving a 2010 f150. I deserve a push button start. No! I deserve a chance to really save for retirement but our generation is constantly in a depression/ recession from 911 to housing to covid-19. 3 major disasters in 1 lifetime. I've actually committed crime just to eat several times in my life. I shouldn't be living this way. Concrete cracks and diamonds can be broken. I'm tired...
I'm a 66 GenX. I'm fucking tired.
the extroverts are afraid of the introverts cause the extroverts think the introverts might kill the extroverts themselves
I am a responsible, self motivated, successful Gen X person and i am not conservative. We are not ALL conservative. We are not all angry.
Lmao 🤣
Gen X'r here (77) I don't know about the "no racism" when we we're growing up though. I got called the n word in high school multiple times..so it was still around..the thing is we didn't whine about it..we beat that a s s. But yeah Gen Xr's are warriors..we've always been and always will be.
Absolutely correct its all about actions and consequences truth and honesty with Absolutely no bullshit 👌 💯 👏
Gen X is the most ACCEPTING generation! But GenX won’t put up with people pushing shit in our face! DO YOUR THING! Be you! We grew up being told in every way how insignificant we were. We were the punk generation. Why do you think Punk came about? I can’t speak on conservatism when it comes to politics. But when it comes to values ie work hard, put your nose to the grindstone, don’t be a sniveler, respect is earned, look out for each other, loyalty, stand on your word, sometimes a fight is the only way to settle something.
boomers started Punk
As a gen Xer, I am very progressive.
Gen X 1965 - 1980
Millenials 1981 - 1996
Gen Z 1997 - 2012
Gen Alpha 2013 .......
As a Gen X leader of people, I seem to carry far more respect than my peers in similar positions. This is because I do my best to understand everyone, and at the same time I find the "hard lines" that I stand for, which are based on simple logic and human psychology. When my employees make bad decisions, I rarely have to even have a sit down with them. They know, and it is because of respect. Not given respect because I am older than them, but because I lead by example and they watched. In my experience, this has not led to a lucrative life. It has led to one that is fulfilling and trains our youth. I would love to find a way to become more "successful" in financial terms, however I will stand on my compass of learning and treating my employees in a way that exhibits pride in what my employees do, creating a culture of becoming better, and end result making everyone better. Leader, employee, customer.
yeah but not when they come at you
As a gen xer I have to honestly say what kept my life messed up was the boomers. They inherited the whole world on the sacrifices their parents made in WWII and my Gen was deemed good enough to rake their leaves and mow their lawns.
"If you are a sexist, racist, homophobe, or basically an asshole, don't buy this CD. I don't care if you like me, I hate you." -Kurt Cobain, leader of Gen-X.
Most of us have friends of many backgrounds. We just don't go around virtue signaling about it.
Tread lightly snowflakes - cuz we don't play nice, and we are quite petty with revenge and in a dystopia that is brewing - y'all ain't Mario with extra lives.
My favourite thing is when Y and Z complain about how X don't do anything to help them or even bother to train them in basic labor or living skills. How they completely ignore the training we do provide and then blame us when life gets hard.
We tried to tell them life isn't always fair and never will be. I add that it isn't unfair either, it is what it is. We tried to tell them NOTHING is free. It's not our fault they wouldn't listen.
My only wish at work, other the getting paid accurately and on time, is for no one above me to know my name. Give me a task, teach me to do it, leave me alone to get that sht done. Praise is not needed, I do because that is my job, I agreed to do it.
I shall ask again, why should we care no one cared about us when we X'ers were growing up. We learned by doing not have shit done for us. No handed me much of anything maybe some advise ir an opportunity but no one filled out my hand written applications or go to my interviews. Grow up Gen z and millennials
I was born during the 60s race riots, I lived though Watergate, oil embargo, factory strikes, manufacturing loss.
We were self reliant ferral children.
Before I was ten I could use tools and do yardwork. 💪
See, I'm the only millennial in my clan. My parents were boomers, all of my siblings are Gen X.
The perception of "conservative" and "liberal" is all relative. The 'Overton Window' (perceived center of socio-political viewpoint) is not where it used to be and has been constantly shifting to the left for decades. So these younger generations see everything from a perceived centrist viewpoint that is well to the left of our own as Gen X ers. This is why they see us as conservative on average. I fully agree that from my perspective they are mostly downright commies. I'm certainly less liberal than I was in my early twenties too. That said while I was a relatively liberal minded kid in the '80s and am far more conservative today someone like me back then would not have been labeled "far right" or extreme in the least back then. Now I am measured that way by the standards of today. I wear that as a badge of sanity and moral integrity. Given that the world has gone so far off the left end of that scale only those labeled as "far right" are likely sane. So when Gen Y or Z calls you conservative you should be comforted by that. Remember these labels don't mean what they used to.
We had Boy George and a trans Bond girl. We knew that David Bowie and at least a dozen others were bi and no one freaked out about it. We were constantly told we were going to be nuked. There was a hole in the Ozone, space junk was falling, There were several cults in the news, I don't like Mondays is the first song about a school shooter. We remember when Sugar cost $5 a freaking pound and our parents could get 5 gallons of gas every other day. And that was a decade or so before Ronnie RayGuns took a 💩on the economy.
We've been there done that and did it without being all weird about it. If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem. So help out here or gtfo Of our way.
Just a counterpoint. I am Gen X, and growing up enmeshed in the AIDS crisis, where the queer community lost an entire generation of their leaders, role models, and watched as the government only made things worse. We were getting gay bashed, and had to face defendants get off because it was a perfectly legal defense to say, "But judge, I'm homophobic!"
Not all Gen X is conservative, not all of identity politics is silly, and I am definitely a liberal. But what *is* true about Gen X is that it didn't matter if your friend held the same ideology, you wouldn't fear that they might do it say something offensive that would end the friendship. We could agree to disagree and move on. These days the political parties feel like the Sharks and the Jets.
Well put counterpoint, This is what I like to see. Real conversation Direct and engaging.
Yes, we could and were friends with different beliefs. Today it seems more and more people refuse to engage outside their small narrow vision of what should be. I Appreciate your stopping by and Putting forward your point.
Sits on arse, does nothing.
"FEAR ME!!!"
Nah.
Who chose this guy to represent and speak on behalf of an entire generation?
I didn't sign off on that
Millenials don't think they're going to get old.
As someone born 1980, a tale end Xer, I learned basic responsibility. Equal opportunities does not always mean equal outcomes. Life isn't always fair. Suck it up.
Then they need to look up a little song by Megadeth called Peace Sells.
Who fucking cares seriously...
Wow, solid gold truths right there! In fact, we are Titanium!
All I want to do is get back to the 70’s and 80’s. As a Gen x girl I miss the Sid and Marty Kroftt/ little house on the prairie era. In a world without stigmas or PC culture that has ruined the world. And I just want to say… go Texas! Don’t let the government push you around. Peace!
Ok let’s see first of all I only give the respect that is given and I don’t see anyone saying anything nice about my generation…soooo that answers your question on that. Let’s just say my generation was told and I have a boomer and gen x parent I would like to mention that as I am an older millennial. And I come from a single parent home. So you don’t have to tell me about hard work I watched my mom work hard as a gen x for a very long time and I have nothing but the upmost respect and admiration for her and everything she did for me. But anyways our generation was told go to school graduate and I did and also worked odd jobs while in high school. Graduated in 2004. Then we were told oh go to college pick a degree you’ll graduate and everything will work out you can do anything. Put all this pressure that you can be anything…so go to school. Instead of shortly graduating and headed off to work it was now you need massive schooling that you won’t ever be able to afford so that didn’t work oh you need more schooling to add to the massive student loan debt you already have. So ok I’ll stay home work and try to pay this off and hopefully get the job I wanted hahahah what a joke. Then 2008 happens the economic crisis meanwhile I had to drop out of school because I couldn’t go to school work a full time job and have money to buy a house and do everything else that I was being pressured to do and then I actually had 2 jobs yes two a full time and a part time. So you tell me I think gen x had Millennials all wrong you are thinking of gen z they are all still home with mommy more than likely I wouldn’t know I’m an only child and I never got handed anything I was expected to work so we are not really angry at any generation how about all of them for telling us lies about things that are not here for us in this economy that was the economy you were in not us all that ended in the 90s. So we Weren’t handed anything we had to stay home because we were broke overworked and stressed out trying to do what were told by your generation and millennials do not like liars and basically that’s what you did. I moved out in my 20’s despite all that and being broke and it took up until a few years ago to pay everything off and finally buy a house and be a let to even get a loan to get a house. So I think you are wrong and you are not looking at real statistics of what happened from millennia’s being born until where we are now you might be interested to find those answers and see that actually we got a really shitty hand economical speaking.
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My Millenial friend can't take criticism !
Gen X here, & definitely not conservative
Exactly the difference between we gen X and the other generations : they are indignant gen X are engaged. Being indignant it is soundly fun and easy, to be engaged is hard work it imposes discipline responsability it is not something you will be recognize for, but in the end....it works
as a Gen x I don't agree and don't call me a conservitive
Do t insult me by calling me a conservative
They cant even decide was gender they are.
The reaganomics is no longer there now
1971 here. And no, they are not ready.
Sorry but this sounds like a boomer
Extroverts always fear for their own safety
Gen X unite!! We are the best!! Standing ovation sir! Mad respect.
Agreed. The Berlin Wall coming down was the single most significant event in terms of affect on the world.
don't tread on gen x
I want a whole lot of the same things that Millennials and Y gen want. The issue I have is that they don't seem to realize that they need to fight for it. Getting on social media and complaining isn't going to make the changes they want to see. They need to get involved down at the grass roots level. They need to enter politics themselves, and deal with everything that comes with that. They need to do a lot more protesting, and some of them are going to get hurt. Political change in the US is made that way. Sure, it should be easier, but it isn't, and that's a reality that not many seem to realize.
We Gen X are the parents of the millennials....yes? So their weirdness must be partially our fault.
What I noticed, is that they all love pain. They went nuts with the tattoos and piercings.
Nah, that's self expression 😂 micromanage that.
I'm Gen x and my kids are zomers . The majority of millennials parents are boomers ,including my millennial wife , hell her youngest sibling was born in 91 to again boomer parents .
@@winnawinna5953 Not exactly, Tatoos and piercings were once cool, many had them in Gen X but they were special/rare and had meaning. Millennials, weren't being different by getting a tat, but following the trend. Many have tattoos without a deep Personal meeting ,like to honor someone or an event or milestone. But just something that in the moment seemed cool...which makes it by Gen x standards very uncool.
Truth '76 here.. And I totally agree, we were quite taking the blame for boomers screw ups. Exactly 💯 Thank you, get the told!!! ❤
what does all these GEN-x.y.z
even means....!??! 🤔
Never really knew..
It's origin etc..
Just started being used to identify ,Apparently my age group...
It actually means nothing...
Hahaha..
Well.. Gen Z and Gen Alpha ain't too bright!
Dont tell their parents that. Lmao.
@@Melissa12175You are their parents, Einstein.
All people generally become more conservative with age. Gen x was also attending integrated schools. Gen x also supported homosexuals rights.