I mean most of these people are probably still on X lol
Grandpa_No on
Well, yeah. Boomers have the excuse that they’ve always mindlessly voted for the racists. Millennials needed to be convinced to do so.
ununuii on
I kind of believe it; I feel like lots of old racists will still bristle and get indignant at the label being hoisted upon them, whereas millennial conservatives who shitposted on 4chan in high school & college and mainlined white grievance internet garbage through their twenties will just smugly cop to it.
literallytwisted on
That really doesn’t seem likely based on the younger generations push for equality in many things, There’s always outliers but unless a survey is done scientifically with a wide reach the findings are not super trustworthy.
Most importantly Newsweek is well known for leaning right and the right wing is made up of lying fascists.
accountabilitycounts on
Boomers lived the Civil Rights Era, and they are much more sensitive to the stigma of racism. Younger generations think being “honest” about being assholes justifies being assholes.
233C on
It’s like they are coming out of the white robes closet.
Upstairs-Design2903 on
Personally, I don’t care when racists came to be, I care when they disappear.
Preferably through education and reason.
Don’t care when or where you’re from, just don’t be an asshole and expect no consequences.
dbag3o1 on
yep. Boomers fought for American values and just went along with tradition at the time. They loved a country and the country loved them back, any racist history and tradition be dammed. Millennials have no excuse, no values they are fighting for, they’ve learned from the algorithm to be as reactive and ragebaity as possible and if that includes identifying as racist then so be it.
quest814 on
Kids aren’t born racist, they learn it. They’ve been groomed and radicalized to hate anyone not lily white. Remember every accusation by the right wing is a confession
Ok_Soft_4575 on
It ain’t much, but it’s honest.
code_archeologist on
Make America Great Again, by making Racists feel fear again
Mollythehabsfan on
Generational labels are divisive, not as bad as racism of course but still divisive. When will people learn that it’s just modern day astrology, judging people by time of birth?
GoddessCommand on
Younger Republicans are more likely to speak their mind, while Older generations who hide behind “I’m not a racsit” claim
No_Celery_5373 on
Older republicans are failed “patriots” who support a king over their constitution, so it’s not much of a surprise that The Failures of America wouldn’t raise their kids right either.
kylebb on
Jesus Christ my fellow millennials need to get it the fuck together
Im_gumby_damnit on
Gen Z Son-In-Law called African Americans “Coloreds” the other day.
This boomer nearly fell out of his chair. I know his dumb racist GenX dad taught him this language, but how can they be so ignorant/naive – unless our education system and current culture is a complete disgrace?
Zieprus_ on
I am seeing young people get caught in a spiral of hate getting led by the algorithms. To many people can’t have a conversation or believe that life is “either or” when life is far more nuanced.
CyberaxIzh on
Wait until kids currently in schools in liberal cities grow up. You’ll be in for a surprise.
chuang-tzu on
At least the younger idiots are more willing to say the quiet bit out loud. I appreciate that in an enemy. It helps me identify them more readily.
_C2J_ on
I have many boomer extended family members who are racist af. However, they don’t “identify” as racist, they just choose not to be friends with people of a different skin tone and make off the wall, stereotype comments about different groups while living in their cozy, white towns.
Fragrant-Vehicle-479 on
I think a key difference is that Boomers don’t see themselves as racist. They see themselves as speaking “truths” that people are just too sensitive to say these days. It’s just a joke, just an opinion, just an observation.
Young republican’s have grown up in the “game” I guess you can say. They cut their teeth in politics trolling people and intentionally making people upset. I’m not saying boomer republicans didn’t do that, but there’s an intentional vibe of knowing you’re being bad and wallowing in it from certain segments of the internet. They know they’re racist, they know they upset you, and they love that you’re uncomfortable. I don’t remember ever hearing a racist boomer get their jollies from making people uncomfortable and hurting people in that way. Again I’m sure it happens, but for the most part it’s very “what, we’re all thinking it!?”.
SirRichardLove on
They have been radicalized by people like Charlie Kirk and Nick Fuentes. I’m not surprised.
jesuswasagamblingman on
They are more likely to honest. I promise you the boomers I know are horrible racists. They wont’ admit it though but get MIL drunk and she’ll start complaining that “but if they can say it why can’t we”.
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FlyingTrampolinePupp on
I believe it. I went to high school with some absolute racist shit lords.
AtomicBlastCandy on
Masks have come out, it’s telling how many people I used to respect are so full of shit.
fr0z3nf1r3 on
It’s why they are lonely. They haven’t quite figured that out yet.
IAmInExtremeDebt on
Boomers get offended and hurt by being called a racist. CK, Fuentes, Shapiro, they made being racist cool!
gegroff on
Maybe stop calling the racist and start calling them pieces of shit then. That may be more on point.
YupThatsMeBuddy on
Boomers just don’t admit it. They gas light and pretend like they aren’t.
Cold-Cell2820 on
Racist boomers have to rectify their beliefs with what they saw in the Civil Rights Era. Only the dumbest and most ignorant are able to do that. Racist millennials really have no visceral reference point.
anonskeptic5 on
>More Likely to Identify as Racist
in other words, admit to it.
Thpike on
You mean to tell me years of incubation in closed circles made them MORE racist?!
ctothel on
All the boomer racists I know *insist* they’re not racist, and then will say a racist thing.
Due-Egg4743 on
Gen Z as well. Pretty much all generations are still very racist and homophobic, sadly. I play a lot of pickup basketball games at the Y and guys of all ages openly use gay slurs like people did in the 80s and 90s. People are often openly racist as well or try to conceal it by buzzwords such as “woke” “DEI” etc.
Piscator629 on
The boomer MEGA types should really be starting to see what their WWII daddies were talking about.
ThePrettyGoodGazoo on
I call bullshit.
Boomers *think* they hide their racism by wanting to return to the “good old days”. Everything they fondly remember is from the 40s-70s where they claim everyone “kept to themselves”.
This is just Boomer code that they want to return to segregation and keeping LGBTQIA+ in the closet, never to see the light of day. It was all blue skies and sunshine for them in the 50’s when everyone that wasn’t white “knew their place”.
Boomers will vehemently deny they are racist while using a half dozen racial slurs in a casual conversation. Then, when you call them out, they say that people are too sensitive and that nobody minded those terms when they were younger.
Both mine and my wife’s parents are in their late 70s and they were emboldened by Trumps first term because he was one of them. They thought he would just bring the 50s right back and make all the stuff that scares them go away.
Boomers will never admit to being racist because, in their minds, they really don’t think that they are.
The world will be a better place when Boomers are gone.
citizen_x_ on
Yeah no shit. Their parents didn’t raise them right and conservative culture has spent the last few decades normalizing dog whistles and white nationalist conspiracies or shaming anyone who pushed back on it as being woke.
Liberals have been 1000% vindicated in everything they’ve said the right was in the US and it’s time to be honest about that.
Chris_HitTheOver on
Excerpt:
> The survey found that, overall, **a majority of the current Republican Party rejects openly racist individuals**, with 36 percent stating that these individuals are not welcome and do not represent what they stand for, and **16 percent saying the party can try to get their votes if it is useful, but they should not be in positions of power and leadership**.
I’d say a full 64% of the party welcoming racists so long as they don’t rise to power isn’t jiving with the suggestion that “a majority of republicans reject racist individuals.”
Also, how’s that keeping-racists-out-of-power going for ya, GOP?
Kahzgul on
When they tell you who they are, believe them.
Wrong_Confection1090 on
I mean they all *are* racist, but millennials are just willing to admit it.
Prestigious-Car-4877 on
Old racists don’t think they’re racist. Young racists are proud of it.
chriskot123 on
Being honest about being a racist doesn’t make it okay to be a racist.
Holden_Coalfield on
Boomers thought they had to hide it
Mr___Wrong on
I bet Gen Z beats them both.
ionbear1 on
“Republicans more likely to identify as racist: Poll”
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Fuck off, newsweek.
I mean most of these people are probably still on X lol
Well, yeah. Boomers have the excuse that they’ve always mindlessly voted for the racists. Millennials needed to be convinced to do so.
I kind of believe it; I feel like lots of old racists will still bristle and get indignant at the label being hoisted upon them, whereas millennial conservatives who shitposted on 4chan in high school & college and mainlined white grievance internet garbage through their twenties will just smugly cop to it.
That really doesn’t seem likely based on the younger generations push for equality in many things, There’s always outliers but unless a survey is done scientifically with a wide reach the findings are not super trustworthy.
Most importantly Newsweek is well known for leaning right and the right wing is made up of lying fascists.
Boomers lived the Civil Rights Era, and they are much more sensitive to the stigma of racism. Younger generations think being “honest” about being assholes justifies being assholes.
It’s like they are coming out of the white robes closet.
Personally, I don’t care when racists came to be, I care when they disappear.
Preferably through education and reason.
Don’t care when or where you’re from, just don’t be an asshole and expect no consequences.
yep. Boomers fought for American values and just went along with tradition at the time. They loved a country and the country loved them back, any racist history and tradition be dammed. Millennials have no excuse, no values they are fighting for, they’ve learned from the algorithm to be as reactive and ragebaity as possible and if that includes identifying as racist then so be it.
Kids aren’t born racist, they learn it. They’ve been groomed and radicalized to hate anyone not lily white. Remember every accusation by the right wing is a confession
It ain’t much, but it’s honest.
Make America Great Again, by making Racists feel fear again
Generational labels are divisive, not as bad as racism of course but still divisive. When will people learn that it’s just modern day astrology, judging people by time of birth?
Younger Republicans are more likely to speak their mind, while Older generations who hide behind “I’m not a racsit” claim
Older republicans are failed “patriots” who support a king over their constitution, so it’s not much of a surprise that The Failures of America wouldn’t raise their kids right either.
Jesus Christ my fellow millennials need to get it the fuck together
Gen Z Son-In-Law called African Americans “Coloreds” the other day.
This boomer nearly fell out of his chair. I know his dumb racist GenX dad taught him this language, but how can they be so ignorant/naive – unless our education system and current culture is a complete disgrace?
I am seeing young people get caught in a spiral of hate getting led by the algorithms. To many people can’t have a conversation or believe that life is “either or” when life is far more nuanced.
Wait until kids currently in schools in liberal cities grow up. You’ll be in for a surprise.
At least the younger idiots are more willing to say the quiet bit out loud. I appreciate that in an enemy. It helps me identify them more readily.
I have many boomer extended family members who are racist af. However, they don’t “identify” as racist, they just choose not to be friends with people of a different skin tone and make off the wall, stereotype comments about different groups while living in their cozy, white towns.
I think a key difference is that Boomers don’t see themselves as racist. They see themselves as speaking “truths” that people are just too sensitive to say these days. It’s just a joke, just an opinion, just an observation.
Young republican’s have grown up in the “game” I guess you can say. They cut their teeth in politics trolling people and intentionally making people upset. I’m not saying boomer republicans didn’t do that, but there’s an intentional vibe of knowing you’re being bad and wallowing in it from certain segments of the internet. They know they’re racist, they know they upset you, and they love that you’re uncomfortable. I don’t remember ever hearing a racist boomer get their jollies from making people uncomfortable and hurting people in that way. Again I’m sure it happens, but for the most part it’s very “what, we’re all thinking it!?”.
They have been radicalized by people like Charlie Kirk and Nick Fuentes. I’m not surprised.
They are more likely to honest. I promise you the boomers I know are horrible racists. They wont’ admit it though but get MIL drunk and she’ll start complaining that “but if they can say it why can’t we”.
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I believe it. I went to high school with some absolute racist shit lords.
Masks have come out, it’s telling how many people I used to respect are so full of shit.
It’s why they are lonely. They haven’t quite figured that out yet.
Boomers get offended and hurt by being called a racist. CK, Fuentes, Shapiro, they made being racist cool!
Maybe stop calling the racist and start calling them pieces of shit then. That may be more on point.
Boomers just don’t admit it. They gas light and pretend like they aren’t.
Racist boomers have to rectify their beliefs with what they saw in the Civil Rights Era. Only the dumbest and most ignorant are able to do that. Racist millennials really have no visceral reference point.
>More Likely to Identify as Racist
in other words, admit to it.
You mean to tell me years of incubation in closed circles made them MORE racist?!
All the boomer racists I know *insist* they’re not racist, and then will say a racist thing.
Gen Z as well. Pretty much all generations are still very racist and homophobic, sadly. I play a lot of pickup basketball games at the Y and guys of all ages openly use gay slurs like people did in the 80s and 90s. People are often openly racist as well or try to conceal it by buzzwords such as “woke” “DEI” etc.
The boomer MEGA types should really be starting to see what their WWII daddies were talking about.
I call bullshit.
Boomers *think* they hide their racism by wanting to return to the “good old days”. Everything they fondly remember is from the 40s-70s where they claim everyone “kept to themselves”.
This is just Boomer code that they want to return to segregation and keeping LGBTQIA+ in the closet, never to see the light of day. It was all blue skies and sunshine for them in the 50’s when everyone that wasn’t white “knew their place”.
Boomers will vehemently deny they are racist while using a half dozen racial slurs in a casual conversation. Then, when you call them out, they say that people are too sensitive and that nobody minded those terms when they were younger.
Both mine and my wife’s parents are in their late 70s and they were emboldened by Trumps first term because he was one of them. They thought he would just bring the 50s right back and make all the stuff that scares them go away.
Boomers will never admit to being racist because, in their minds, they really don’t think that they are.
The world will be a better place when Boomers are gone.
Yeah no shit. Their parents didn’t raise them right and conservative culture has spent the last few decades normalizing dog whistles and white nationalist conspiracies or shaming anyone who pushed back on it as being woke.
Liberals have been 1000% vindicated in everything they’ve said the right was in the US and it’s time to be honest about that.
Excerpt:
> The survey found that, overall, **a majority of the current Republican Party rejects openly racist individuals**, with 36 percent stating that these individuals are not welcome and do not represent what they stand for, and **16 percent saying the party can try to get their votes if it is useful, but they should not be in positions of power and leadership**.
I’d say a full 64% of the party welcoming racists so long as they don’t rise to power isn’t jiving with the suggestion that “a majority of republicans reject racist individuals.”
Also, how’s that keeping-racists-out-of-power going for ya, GOP?
When they tell you who they are, believe them.
I mean they all *are* racist, but millennials are just willing to admit it.
Old racists don’t think they’re racist. Young racists are proud of it.
Being honest about being a racist doesn’t make it okay to be a racist.
Boomers thought they had to hide it
I bet Gen Z beats them both.
“Republicans more likely to identify as racist: Poll”
Fixed their title