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GenThePerservering

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11. I was a kid in a typical small town

Wed Mar 19, 2025, 03:10 PM

Mar 2025

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.

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In the 60's it was the young folks protesting [View all] kacekwl Mar 2025 OP

They need motivation. Omnipresent Mar 2025 #1

Hello ??They are protesting all over US and world - the recent slaughter of kids in Gaza womanofthehills Mar 2025 #32

Well, actually, it was a very small minority of young folks who did that. MineralMan Mar 2025 #2

Perhaps Boomers were just unique when it came to their youth protesting in mass Polybius Mar 2025 #3

Silent Generation didn't protest? TheProle Mar 2025 #13

You are correct of course, but I was referring to the youth Polybius Mar 2025 #14

Boomers were born from 1946 to 1964. Mariana Mar 2025 #22

Nevertheless TheProle Mar 2025 #31

Good point Polybius Mar 2025 #34

True, but protests continued until 1972, RazorbackExpat Mar 2025 #40

The kids out protesting yesterday & today womanofthehills Mar 2025 #33

Two possible factors - the draft and a shared culture karynnj Mar 2025 #43

In the 60's the draft was a huge motivator for turning out protesters. CareyOn Mar 2025 #4

There was also the Freedom Summer when many rode to the south to get African Americans to register question everything Mar 2025 #5

you never know, St. Upid just might leverage another draft IzzaNuDay Mar 2025 #6

Hey, we 60's protesters grew up and got elderly. Paladin Mar 2025 #7

Uh huh. Elessar Zappa Mar 2025 #8

Amazing how many people don't know this. writerJT Mar 2025 #25

If we engage, age can become irrelevant Torchlight Mar 2025 #9

YES! blubunyip Mar 2025 #26

Silly. H2O Man Mar 2025 #10

There's nothing silly about young people's apathy. Boomerproud Mar 2025 #18

Or middle-aged people's. H2O Man Mar 2025 #21

I was a kid in a typical small town GenThePerservering Mar 2025 #11

This is ridiculous NT GenThePerservering Mar 2025 #12

There was a protest in a nearby town and it was all old people. Depressing. I'm afraid by the time the young Vinca Mar 2025 #15

That's... mostly Gen Z, I think. sakabatou Mar 2025 #16

A lot of Gen Z are still children. Mariana Mar 2025 #23

The oldest Gen Z are adults. The youngest is in their mid-teens. None I'd consider "children" sakabatou Mar 2025 #24

lol cmon now WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2025 #17

There was no social media in the 60s. There are young liberals on social media JI7 Mar 2025 #19

Social media efforts & street protests blubunyip Mar 2025 #20

The protests are definitely skewing gray Blues Heron Mar 2025 #27

Even the young are starting to realize their freedoms may not last too long........... Lovie777 Mar 2025 #28

Being drafted and killed in a pointless war is great motivation. BlueTsunami2018 Mar 2025 #29

Oh look, another youth bash thread. Celerity Mar 2025 #30

Wow, such irony. Nixie Mar 2025 #35

get off my lawn pstokely Mar 2025 #42

When Social Security is destroyed who do you expect to be protesting? LS0999 Mar 2025 #36

I turned 60 this year and I have never assumed social security would be there for me. intheflow Mar 2025 #41

I think about this a lot. ananda Mar 2025 #37

"Young wolves, show us your teeth." John Steinbeck to some literature sudents in the Soviet Union. in the 60s Ping Tung Mar 2025 #38

There were certainly plenty of young people biocube Mar 2025 #39