In the 60's it was the young folks protesting

[kacekwl]

now it seems the young men are trying to be someone's bro and the young women are trying to look like a Kardashian. Both posting their every stupid move on tic toc. Afraid it will be up to us old koots to hit the streets again.

[Omnipresent]

1. They need motivation.

It’s time for Kim to pour some gasoline on herself and strike a match.
Someone needs to lead this protest and light the way!

[womanofthehills]

32. Hello ??They are protesting all over US and world - the recent slaughter of kids in Gaza

Times Square - yesterday

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NY today

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San Francisco

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Bay Area

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Boston

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Toronto

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Trump building.

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White House

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Rochester

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Etc etc - all over the whole world there are huge protests- way larger than when we protested in the 60’s.

[MineralMan]

2. Well, actually, it was a very small minority of young folks who did that.

I remember quite well. We were loud, but we weren't as many as we should have been.

Nothing much has changed, really. There are still young folks out there protesting.

[Polybius]

3. Perhaps Boomers were just unique when it came to their youth protesting in mass

No other generation did it like them. The youth of the Silent Gen, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z just weren't into it as much.

[TheProle]

13. Silent Generation didn't protest?

Google some images from the Civil Rights protests in the 50s and early 60s.

[Polybius]

14. You are correct of course, but I was referring to the youth

Silent Gen's protesting in the 50's and early 60's were older than the Boomers protesting in the late 60's. Boomers youth really were into political movements like no other.

[Mariana]

22. Boomers were born from 1946 to 1964.

Most of them were children in the 1960's.

[TheProle]

31. Nevertheless

MLK was born at the front edge of the Silent Generation (1929) and plenty of his contemporaries actively protested in the 50s and 60s…

[Polybius]

34. Good point

For some reason, I tend to think of the hippie movement (who protested a lot) as all Boomers.

[RazorbackExpat]

40. True, but protests continued until 1972,

when Nixon announced the end of American military involvement in Viet Nam

[womanofthehills]

33. The kids out protesting yesterday & today

Are amazing. In the 60’s we didn’t have the internet to watch a genocide in real time. Every big city in US has huge protests yesterday and today - plus the whole world is protesting.

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[karynnj]

43. Two possible factors - the draft and a shared culture

Especially music. A third factor is we were the biggest cohort.

[CareyOn]

4. In the 60's the draft was a huge motivator for turning out protesters.

[question everything]

5. There was also the Freedom Summer when many rode to the south to get African Americans to register

to vote.

I have often wished that a similar campaign would take place when so many RW states made it harder to register to vote.

And now, to help so many who were tossed from safety nets.

[IzzaNuDay]

6. you never know, St. Upid just might leverage another draft

Like he wants to take over Canada, Greenland and Panama. He’ll need more young bodies to salute and execute!

[Paladin]

7. Hey, we 60's protesters grew up and got elderly.

But never ever doubt that we still know how to do it.

[Elessar Zappa]

8. Uh huh.

Only a small number of young people protested. Nothing has changed.

[writerJT]

25. Amazing how many people don't know this.

[Torchlight]

9. If we engage, age can become irrelevant

18 to 81, stand together and speak with one voice. Or hang separately.

[blubunyip]

26. YES!

The corporate entities who want to create a sense of lack in all of us (so that we fill that need with their product) find it very useful to build a wall between generations. Generational stereotypes are constantly being used to divide us. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/18/its-time-to-stop-talking-about-generations

We are at a point in history where we "stand together and speak with one voice'--or we are corralled and contained.
Divide and Conquer-- it's an old playbook.

We need everybody who cares.

[H2O Man]

10. Silly.

[Boomerproud]

18. There's nothing silly about young people's apathy.

Their future is in their hands and the young people I know and care about are in complete denial.

[H2O Man]

21. Or middle-aged people's.

Or old people's.

But -- obviously -- that was not what I called "silly."

[GenThePerservering]

11. I was a kid in a typical small town

in the 60s. If anyone protested the war, they'd be run out on a rail.

No, like anyone noisy, the protestors got all the press but were a small part of that generation. Yet they somehow defined a generation.

It's why we need to be outshouting the magats - they ARE a minority, but they're good at making noise, and if we don't out-shout them, they WILL define this country.

[GenThePerservering]

12. This is ridiculous NT

[Vinca]

15. There was a protest in a nearby town and it was all old people. Depressing. I'm afraid by the time the young

get their noses out of their phones it will be too late.

[sakabatou]

16. That's... mostly Gen Z, I think.

Millenials like me, we're just trying to survive, working x-amount of jobs just to afford adequate living. Not comfortable. Adequate.

[Mariana]

23. A lot of Gen Z are still children.

[sakabatou]

24. The oldest Gen Z are adults. The youngest is in their mid-teens. None I'd consider "children"

You're probably thinking of the younger Gen Alpha.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. lol cmon now

[JI7]

19. There was no social media in the 60s. There are young liberals on social media

supporting our cause. We have lost in part becsuse of how the right wing has used social media to spread their bs.

Tryng to get the truth out on social media will do a lot more than the usual type of protest.

[blubunyip]

20. Social media efforts & street protests

are synergistic. We need all of it.

[Blues Heron]

27. The protests are definitely skewing gray

Granny’s out stopping the coup, where are the youths?

[Lovie777]

28. Even the young are starting to realize their freedoms may not last too long...........

[BlueTsunami2018]

29. Being drafted and killed in a pointless war is great motivation.

Far too many people, young or old, have no real idea what’s happening here.

[Celerity]

30. Oh look, another youth bash thread.

[Nixie]

35. Wow, such irony.

[pstokely]

42. get off my lawn

[LS0999]

36. When Social Security is destroyed who do you expect to be protesting?

Younger generations don't even believe it will exist when they get older so they don't care.

[intheflow]

41. I turned 60 this year and I have never assumed social security would be there for me.

Reagan's second election was the first presidential election I was eligible to vote in. I could see the writing on the wall even then.

[ananda]

37. I think about this a lot.

It used to be: Where have all the flowers gone?

Now it's: Where have all the young people gone?

[Ping Tung]

38. "Young wolves, show us your teeth." John Steinbeck to some literature sudents in the Soviet Union. in the 60s

[biocube]

39. There were certainly plenty of young people

protesting after George Floyd's death and the Women's March.