Also Millenials’ and Gen Alpha’s. Once again Gen X doing all the heavy cultural lifting.

(Edit: go on then, you name a 20yo skateboarder that most people outside the sport have heard of)

(Second edit: yeesh, I retract my statement! It was a post about a skateboarder having a long career, not a calculated attack on everyone under 45, put the pitchforks away already)

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    Fuck me, all I said was there’s no culturally significant skateboarders coming up any more and you’re bringing a whole racism thing into it. Chill the fuck out dude

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      > Accuses every generation after theirs of being useless

      > Gets pissy and defensive when their bad logic is pointed out

      No one called you racist, bud, but clutch those pearls.

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        The guy compares my post to White supremacist rhetoric and I’m the one clutching pearls? lol

        I know he didn’t call me racist. I said he brought racism into it, like as though it was anything like on the same level and not a ludicrous pearl-clutching analogy. Also “accuses every generation of being useless” is a way OTT characterization that you’ve inferred solely so that you can have something to get mad at. It was a lighthearted showerthought about a skateboarder.

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          and I’m the one clutching pearls?

          Yup, still are, ignoring the point of the comment in favor of the “ludicrous” context of their anecdote. “It’s just a joke” is also a poor, worn out excuse to discredit criticism.

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            Oh wait I see, you’re in training for when they add Extreme High Horse Riding to the X-Games. Careful you don’t fall off.

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      Nobody was calling you a racist but if it’s that upsetting that someone pointed out that your tactics are logic is similar that’s on you.

      Edit: tactics is unnecessarily accusatory and that wasn’t my intent and I don’t think it was the original commenters intent either. Changed “tactics” to “logic.”

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        “your tactics” is still like, several notches above a sane take on what OP actually posted. This is not a remotely problematic post, at least not in the sense you guys are implying.

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          You’re right, tactics is accusatory when it shouldn’t be. There’s no evidence of motive or intent. Let’s call it “your logic” instead.