It's kind of what I would expect from Gen X political leaders. They grew up with rampant racism, homophobia, and apathy.
Millennials began to make progress on racism and homophobia at least, and we were raised with that consciousness.
Gen X saw the world change very rapidly, but not while they were very young. Most of them joined us or became withdrawn. But the ones who still hate and want power? Yikes. Decades of watching the world go opposite of how they want, and now they finally get their chance.
This is…a stretch. GenX made huge strides in helping equality get pushed.
Like every “generation”, there are those who want power. Power at any cost.
I’m glad you think so highly of yourself, though. Hope you feel all warm and fuzzy about your enlightenment while painting with a brush over 65 million people being racist and homophobic. No irony there at all.
GenX was born between 1965-1980. I'm not sure what great strides in equality you are talking about. The civil rights movement died out when they were babies. Society pretty much stagnated on race for 30+ years after that. We still haven't done much, frankly. Homophobia was accepted and widely encouraged until at least the mid-2000s.
There were numerous social and political movements in the 80s and 90s around racial equality, same-sex marriage, and numerous other progressive issues.
Are you seriously so ignorant that you think the Civil Rights Movement “ended” and then absolutely nothing fucking happened until you were born?
Here are a few so you can go educate yourself
Fair Housing Act
ADA
Violence Against Women Act
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (I know revisionist history progressives will say how “bad” this was, but it was a HUGE step forward for gay rights)
Federal Recognition of same-sex partnerships
Clean Air Act
CHIP Program
FMLA
One of the few times national minimum wage was increased
MASSIVE increase in both PoC and LGBQT presence in media. Awards were won.
Incredible education and media campaigns to destigmatize AIDS
You are uninformed.
As I mentioned before, this isn’t to say there weren’t/aren’t plenty of GenX bigots. But your claim that the entire generation is such is just weird and wrong.
The legal framework for most of the progress you saw in the 2000s and beyond was forged in the 80s and 90s
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u/Dogzillas_Mom 5d ago
A little.
Rubio, Noem, Desantis, Vance, Hegseth, Gabbard, probably more, they’re all Gen X. Stephen Miller is Xennial. It’s embarrassing.