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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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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.
FoxyQueen · 51-55, F
@LadyGrace i don't claim all boomers, just boomer culture. Boomer culture has been around since my birth and it has been rife with cruelty.

Most of the generations after have actually brought more things to light that boomers used to make fun of, like mental health issues, trauma, the different types of violence, equity over equality, punching up vs punching down, etc.

Sure there are shit head younger people, but their general cultures are far more kind and empathetic. My experience has shown me the younger generations have a lot of care for the world and people around them and those who follow boomer culture are angrily trying to suppress that. But that's my experience. Ymmv
@FoxyQueen We'll have to agree to disagree on that. Yes, everyone's experiences different and that's okay. ❤
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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.