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from Quim Magazine

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Try as best as you can to track down some old retired folks who have been doing the activism thing for decades. And just old retired folks who care about anything, anything at all.

This crap with labeling the generations and talking like "boomers" are this way and "gen Z" is that way, it's silly to the point of being dangerous.

Younger generations in USA kind of reject the whole thing about respecting and valuing your elders but the truth is, all different kinds of cultures have these values and they're right. Elders have more knowledge and understanding than you can ever find written down anywhere.

And they WANT and NEED young people to connect with them. Elders are suffering more from our society of isolation than anybody else. And they are energized and invigorated by having young people to share their knowledge, information, and stories with.

So often I have been in a room of people majority over 65, wondering where all the "politically aware" gen Z are. And the answer is, they're on social media, arguing with strangers and stressing themselves out, while the "boomers" are getting shit done.

Social media isolates young activists from the most experienced and knowledgeable of all. And it's a dangerous trap for people of all ages who feel lonely and afraid. Either radicalizing them into hateful ideology and cult-style groups, or convincing them of apathy and pointlessness.

Like, y’all know you’re also why conservatives are removing shit, right? Because you laud every time they shut down things that make you uncomfortable because you think that existing in the public means you need to “never feel anything uncomfy ever uwu”, at the expense of others having safe ways to express themselves online and in public.

Some of y’all are acting like cops online with the progress flag and acting like you’re safe for kinksters when you’re harming them, and it’s just sad.

Sometimes existing means other people exist in ways that make you uncomfortable and that’s not the same thing as being harmed. Go to therapy and unpack your upbringing and trauma.

Fucking hell