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I don't know why people find it funny

to make jokes at other people's expense. I know it has been a huge boomer thing to do. They made fun of Britney Spears, Justin Beiber, Anna Nichole Smith, Lorenna Bobbit, and many many others who they didn't bother to understand their situations, they just went for the low hanging fruit jokes.

America's Funniest Home Videos, Impractical Jokers, and a variety of other shows were created to point and laugh at other people's physical and mental traumas, as if somehow, those were up for comedy grabs.

The main theme of the jokes were completely devoid of empathy and compassion, laughing at the pain and emotional hurts. There was no putting one's self in the shoes of the object of the laughs.

We wonder where our comapssion and empathy have gone. Since I can remember, boomers have been proving time and time again they never had any to begin with. The pain and hurt of others is their Comedy Castle.
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So why attach a whole generation to it ? That’s just another aspect of the problem-ageism. 🙄
I call bs on your claims to compassion and empathy if you’re putting an age limit on it. 🥺
@FoxyQueen There are many different cultures. And people of my generation exist in all of them. So "boomer culture" is still slanted, because while we may have some common life experiences due to the world that existed during our lifetimes, there are many things we don’t share, based upon where we grew up and who we have been.
FoxyQueen · 51-55, F
@bijouxbroussard truthfully, I'm glad your experience has shown you a better side.
@FoxyQueen What it’s shown me, is that prejudice comes from all sources, even unexpected ones.
Incidentally, the "social justice warriors" were not just Gen X,
Here are some boomers who were protesters (we got our behinds kicked; and many of us were true believers who were back out there for Occupy and anti-MAGA):

I don't think we can include all boomers in that. I see it way more in this generation, that people are so much more cruel and insensitive to others.
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@FoxyQueen oh that's awful. I'm so sorry to hear this. Yes we should indeed be kind to everyone.
FoxyQueen · 51-55, F
@LadyGrace to be fair, a lot of the laws and revoking of rights have been ongoing since just before Regan, but, when the social justice warriors came out, (all people in my daughter's generation) it was super easy for the "adults" to get mad at "kids" telling them how they know they should be behaving and carry that anger to politicians who were happy to fan those flames to get their votes. Eventually, that fire becomes an inferno, hence, we have the current administration in 2025.
I don't know about the ages or any boomerism but I do feel many people of all ages lack empathy and I fail to find that type of stuff funny either.
I agree and often wondered the same thing.
katydidnt · 61-69, F
Well said. And don't forget disabled reporters at political rallies.
JimboSaturn · 56-60, M
I do find that Impractical Jokers embarass themselves instead of other people.
FoxyQueen · 51-55, F
@JimboSaturn They have other very problematic issues as well that make them a horrible show.

I have only seen episodes where they scare random people in malls and such and all I can think of is how they have no idea what trauma those people may have been through that they may be forcing them to relive. I stopped there because that just isn't funny.
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@FoxyQueen No. just you.
FoxyQueen · 51-55, F
@Mamapolo2016 how Christian of you ❤
People have always done this.. It's not a new thing
FoxyQueen · 51-55, F
@AbsolutelyFabulous I never said they hadn't
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
Think of POTUS and his making fun of others!
FoxyQueen · 51-55, F
@samueltyler2 and how many of his suppprters laugh and say people are too sensitive.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@FoxyQueen words cannot really describe how i loathe them .
true. the @#$@ hits the fan in grade school and never stops.
We became what we became as feral Gen X'ers because of the of the selfishness of our boomer parents, their epidemic divorces breaking our homes.
FoxyQueen · 51-55, F
@NativePortlander1970 I'm okay with the divorces. It saved lives and prevented abuse.

But yeah, growing up as a Gen X, my parents had no idea who I was as a person because to them, I was never a person. I was just a thing that lived with them, only acknowledged when I did something wrong, or they were socially required to behave like parents in public. I was told I don't deserve luxuries and that they did because they were the adults.

Boomers don't seem to want to take accountability for the huge number of people they broke.
@FoxyQueen They broke a lot of us, that's why our peers taught their kids taught them to not respect the boomers, attack them the way they did, now we're seeing the end result of our resentments towards a parent, or both. I disagree on the divorces, they showed us that marriage is no longer sacred, that your partner isn't worth working things out like our grandparent's generation tried.

 
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