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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 · 51-55, F
@bijouxbroussard I explained earlier in a comment it was boomer culture. I'm also not saying that every generation since is altruistic.

I am.simply saying, from the time I can remember till the last 15 years or so, a lot of "humor" in the media, which was controlled by boomers, was done at other people's expenses and how that sets a precedence to not care about other people.

As I've also said, your mileage may vary. This has been my 54 years of experience.
@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):