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Polybius

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

Reply to TheProle (Reply #13)

Wed Mar 19, 2025, 03:58 PM

Mar 2025

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.

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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