I'm seeing a lot of my fellow Gen-Xers saying "When did we start thinking the police were the bad guys?"
Did you not come up on Fuck the Police? On Killing in the Name?
Or is this only because now that you have your little bit of shit and feel entitled that you want to remake it? To be safe for you, instead of strong for them? To become the generation we hated for not protecting us?
These kids are doing what we did. Being who we wanted to be. Help them, don't shit on them. Fucking cowards.
@LeviKornelsen@thebrand Myself and the few of my peers I'm still good friends with were never on the conservative side, and took much of the anti-establishment ethos of our high school years deeply to heart even if we wound up being boring old dudes. The ones who turned into raging MAGA chuds were just like us, going to the same clubs and listening to the same music and wearing lipstick and eyeliner and skirts. That's why it's so damn baffling.
@LeviKornelsen@thebrand Like when I was 20 I was muttering "Fuck the Police" when cops were profiling me as I walked down the street. I kind of never stopped. Somewhere along the way, the same people who would have done the same are slapping Punisher stickers on their lifted trucks. No idea WTF happened to them.
@LeviKornelsen Yea, true, and part of why I'm glib about generational studies. They're not everything folks think they are.
But in the cases that prompted this post... I'm talking about people I came up with. Specific people who I marched with. Fucking people who got gassed by cops with me. And now these fucks are talking shit about the kids protesting now.
And I'm like... what. the. fuck. Angry as hell, but also baffled. The sheer balls out hypocrisy of it is sick.
@thebrand@LeviKornelsen The dude I know who I met when he was a 16-year old punk kid and who was in a diverse circle of friends that included many sexual orientations and genders and ethnicities turned into a neo-Nazi, racist, Odinist, mouth-breathing MAGA. And he's half-Hispanic to boot. Blows my fucking mind.
@thebrand@LeviKornelsen One of his best friends growing up, the younger brother of one of my high school girlfriend's friends, was from Guatemala. Their family escaped to the US in the early 80s, and before that they saw some shit. He had to completely disown the MAGA chud even though it broke his heart to do it.
@rivetgeek@LeviKornelsen I do have some thoughts about why this happens, other than pure cowardice. But Imma save them for another time because I'm just too raw pissed tonight.
@LeviKornelsen@thebrand Xennial here. For my own part, that time came in the early 2010s, when the evidence that the cops are the bad guys really started piling up where it couldn't be ignored as merely anecdotal or flukes.
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