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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    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.