Also Millenials’ and Gen Alpha’s. Once again Gen X doing all the heavy cultural lifting.

(Edit: go on then, you name a 20yo skateboarder that most people outside the sport have heard of)

(Second edit: yeesh, I retract my statement! It was a post about a skateboarder having a long career, not a calculated attack on everyone under 45, put the pitchforks away already)

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
    199·
    21 days ago

    That has always struck me as a bad hot take.

    One of my closeted racist family members love to ask “Who is Africa’s Leonardo da Vinci ?” to make some sort of claim to both his genius and the implied lack of genius to Africans.

    And the answer is Leonardo da Vinci is Africa’s Leonardo da Vinci … and the only people trying to say otherwise is people trying to profit off of making up a difference.

    So I guess that I get it but also it is … I just think that it is a bad take.

    • skisnow@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      159·
      21 days ago

      Fuck me, all I said was there’s no culturally significant skateboarders coming up any more and you’re bringing a whole racism thing into it. Chill the fuck out dude

      • Ech@lemmy.ca
        125·
        21 days ago

        > Accuses every generation after theirs of being useless

        > Gets pissy and defensive when their bad logic is pointed out

        No one called you racist, bud, but clutch those pearls.

        • skisnow@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          31·
          21 days ago

          The guy compares my post to White supremacist rhetoric and I’m the one clutching pearls? lol

          • Ech@lemmy.ca
            32·
            20 days ago

            and I’m the one clutching pearls?

            Yup, still are, ignoring the point of the comment in favor of the fomenting over the “ludicrous” context of their anecdote. “It’s just a joke” is also a poor, worn out excuse to discredit criticism.

      • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        46·
        20 days ago

        Nobody was calling you a racist but if it’s that upsetting that someone pointed out that your tactics are logic is similar that’s on you.

        Edit: tactics is unnecessarily accusatory and that wasn’t my intent and I don’t think it was the original commenters intent either. Changed “tactics” to “logic.”

        • papalonian@lemmy.world
          61·
          21 days ago

          “your tactics” is still like, several notches above a sane take on what OP actually posted. This is not a remotely problematic post, at least not in the sense you guys are implying.

          • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
            31·
            21 days ago

            You’re right, tactics is accusatory when it shouldn’t be. There’s no evidence of motive or intent. Let’s call it “your logic” instead.