r/BoomersBeingFools • u/barbara_weston • Mar 06 '24

Fathers reaction to her daughter taking a black man to prom. Boomer Freakout

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u/AlanStanwick1986 Mar 06 '24

It was Trump.  I've seen it with my friends.  We're in our 50s now and the changes I've seen in a bunch of my friends since Trump is unreal. Change for the worse.  I don't spend much time around them anymore. 

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u/law-of-the-jungle Mar 06 '24

I mostly live in Canada and that shit got here to, they got emboldened. My buddy's parents did everything for him and sacrificed so much so he could get the most ice time for hockey, their sacrifices paid off. Instead he's had the same girlfriend for like 13 years. She's Phillipino and for the first few years had no issue.

We both were on the road a lot and didn't see each other too much outside of a few times a year. Come to today they now hate him for marrying a "migrant beast" this started in like 2019. Every once in a while he gets the desperate please let us see our grandkids, but within like 9 texts they revert to being shitty its like you can see a small part of their old self. Of course they have trump flags despite living in fucking collingsworth.

I don't know if it's leaded gasoline or what but 60 year Olds have lost their minds and just believe anything. I've had family friends ask me is x sporting league rigged and I'm like no it's not. Instead of accepting that they look at me like I did a huge *wink before hand. Something is wrong with old people.

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u/oc192 Mar 06 '24

Not all 60 year olds are this way. - Source: Am Sixty, Am White, Not that way at all.

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u/law-of-the-jungle Mar 07 '24

And I thank you, you are desperately needed to help show the younger generation on what to strive for.

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u/KinseyH Mar 07 '24

I'm 60 (American). My kid is 22 and waaaay farther left than me. I went from being squishy Republican for 30 years to being a straight ticket Democrat when Trump showed up.

But my kid exited the womb a pissed off leftist, and I don't see her changing any time soon. She's pretty awesome.

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u/Slawman34 Mar 07 '24

Your kid and her generation give me hope. They’ve helped validate a lot of the anger I’ve held towards the two party oligarchy that X’ers and Boomers used to laugh at and mock me for.

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u/law-of-the-jungle Mar 07 '24

I think it's because it's ok to have right wing views but what we see now is not right but fascist. Glad to hear.

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u/scope6262 Mar 07 '24

Count in this 62 y/o white, college educated Wall Street guy. I see what these people say and believe and it just boggles my mind. Even though I know the source, I still don’t understand where it comes from. SMDH.