You realize that also means they got to suffer until those improvements happened? And then, of course, ending Jim Crow didn’t really fix everything. For Black boomers things got a little better for a while and then got worse again.

Boomers were alive in the 50s and 60s.

To be fair, a lot of them came into maturity later in the 70s and 80s, but it’s an age range of like 20 years.

Generations are bullshit ttbh

Willing to negotiate a surrender that wouldn’t force them to become a conquest of the US. They just wanted to keep their own government. The US refused, it wanted unconditional surrender and total control of Japan.

So? The nukes weren’t dropped on he military. They just slaughtered civilians.

Japanese civilians weren’t exactly the ones doing the slaughtering. It’s not like the nukes targeted a military target.

Palestine has never existed as a state. It was supposed to be created for the first time alongside the state of Israel in 1948, but the Arabs rejected the UN transition plan and went to war against the newly formed Israel instead of accepting independence.

It sure sounded like you were saying Palestine is not real.

Let me clarify too - many of the people called “Arabs” in Palestine were descended from Jews that converted to Islam, as well other Levantine and Semitic peoples in the region. It was actually only under the Ottomans that there was this distinction created between Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Jews, before that many Palestinians can trace their families back to their Jewish roots.

Unfortunately Zionists continued this racist program to further segregate their home into ethnostates instead of forming a single multi-ethnic, multi-religious democracy. Then they got a white European dominated UN to force a racist agreement onto the rest of Palestinians, which would give the best and most land to the Jews while kicking the rest of Palestinians out of their homes. Why the fuck would they agree to a colonial partition plan and let their land be taken from them?

There is no justification for ethnostates. Only a single multi-ethnic, multi-religious democracy from the river to the sea.

A nuclear war definitely implies use of nuclear weapons on both sides. That was nuclear conquest, or nuclear terrorism.

Just slaughtering civilians in a country that was already willing to negotiate their surrender.

We haven’t had a nuclear war yet!

The people that lived in that region certainly didn’t think of themselves as British or Ottomans, and neither did the British or the Ottomans. That’s just colonialism.

This revisionist “Palestine isn’t real” nonsense is indistinguishable from the justification for the Holocaust. Jews were seen as parasites without their own nation-state, rootless cosmopolitans and not really people, and so they had to be exterminated. Now the fascists are coming for Palestinians, and with the same fucking justifications as always.

Stop spewing revisionist fascist history. This was the lie that was used to justify the Nakba and it’s the lie they’re using now to justify turning Gaza into a death camp.

So you created an example that doesn’t match on purpose?

Yes, many forms of racist oppression have either stayed the same or gotten worse, particularly the prison industrial complex and with police killings just replacing lynchings.

But are you telling me that Black boomers had it easy under segregation and Jim Crow?

That could apply to individuals, like you said, but you can’t apply it broadly like you can apply privileges to white men.

Furthermore, they’re doing the same thing today so that literally hasn’t even changed.

But defeating the civil rights movement was more about killing off the leaders.

Times were not overall easier for everyone under segregation. You’re just looking at history through a white lens.

Only white men, though. They, as a cohort, definitely had it easy like no one else. Particularly straight able-bodied Christians.

I’m right where I need to be.

Yeah that boomerism only works if your economic position improves as you get older.

Yeah, but then add a dozen or more generations. Not your grandma, your many times removed ancestor from before the printing press or some shit.

Your comment makes sweeping generalizations about boomers as if they all had it easy. I want to remind people that this really only applied to a select group of specially elevated boomers. A white man could have what you say, good fucking luck if you were a Black woman though.

Literally the same argument used to genocide the Native Americans.

I have no idea what you’re even trying to say.

This thread is a circle jerk about how boomers had it easy. I just wanted to remind people that it was only the white ones that had it easy, and in particular, the able-bodied straight Christian men.