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)

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    > 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.

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

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        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.