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It's really demonstrative of how insidious social media and algorithmically-elevated content have become that this is even a question.
The boomers and wine moms we're all trying to get to see reason are literally having a separate reality constructed for them by the content and corporate social media that they consume.
We have a particular segment of the population, many of them Boomers, that overdosed on the internet and refuse to accept that the internet lies to them, manipulates them, and acts as a conduit for propaganda tailor made for their lack of critical thinking and short sighted ideals. Cable TV (esp news outlets) was the primer for this and continues to act in tandem.
These are largely the same people who told us ‘video games make the kids violent!’ along with many other tropes that have been fed to them so they have zero incentive to see themselves as part and parcel to the problems we face today.
Now, we have an entire generation of new voters that have spent half their lives steeped in this Trumpian bullshit. They too are so lost in the version of reality that is being sold to them online that they don’t even see actual day to day reality for what it is.
Idk how we fix this, aside from something really major happening that unites us against our oppressors, or a multigenerational project akin to educational rehab.
There absolutely no truth to the concept that boomers are anti-vaccine. They have the lowest vaccine hesitancy of any current generation. Many of them had siblings who died from things we now can vaccinate against. They already lived the reality we're rushing back towards today.
This was a movement started by Gen-X and it's has infected every generation since in increasing numbers.
Well first step is taking fox and other propoganda networks off the air. Then it's reinstituting the Fairness Doctrine and applying it to talk radio that is political as well. Then publicly funding journalism and media.
You can't combat disinformation online if the "news" corroborates it.
Most boomers are not antivax though. They saw what polio could do. They saw this shit works.
Yeah. It's rather silly how much genx shit gets blamed on boomers. In some ways genx has been the boomer+ generation. What they lacked in size, they made up in ignorance.
Weren't like half of them not born until after the vaccine was developed?