Wrong. Im the same age as this guy and my circle of friends are all around the same age. Not one of us think like this guy. And everyone of us knows how to use a computer and read alternative media. Quit lumping people into groups. Thats what they do.
touche' in my 70s here and the part OP wrote about but glossed over is that coworker WILL VOTE FOR TRUMP. Now let's just get the MidTerms right so TRUMP can make Lasting Change.
Yeah but he still turned against Trump because he was too stupid to see Fox is as bad as CNN. If not worse. Now because this guy is a moron that refuses to turn off the TV all the deep state has to do is run a shiny RINO turd and he'll vote for him instead of Trump. How many morons around the country will fall for that because Fox convinced them Orange man bad? That could lead to splitting the votes of the party and losing an election. All due to idiots like this guy. That's the scenario they are priming and people are dumb enough to fall for it.
Wish I could have replied in time but since george Bush took all or most of my money in 2009 I still have to work. We cannot beat the news as Wilson taught the whole world that the press is controls the World we must live in it. What we can rely on is when EVERY ONE else falls only TRUMP the GEOTUS will remain standing.
Stereotyping people into groups is definitely something that's been indoctrinated into most people, myself and others here included. It's an easy option to group the minority as the whole -- it's also an even easier way to divide us.
Like you said: "Quit lumping people into groups." It's something I think we all need to work on.
Think you will find he is referring to the statement about people over 40 , maybe he is right, i am 58 and have been awake to what is going on for a long time. The first gulf war for me.
Agree that it is mainly older people watching MSM though. Hard habits to break.
I am much older than you and haven't watched TV at all in years. I saw a couple in the store a few days ago piling tomatoes, tomato sauce, and tomato paste into their cart. I mentioned the crop failure in California, and they said they'd heard of it, and that's why they were stocking up. I see a lot of older people buying everything they can to stock up. One guy I talked to said he was clearing out a place to store plywood and lumber for future projects. He knows that lumber prices are now dropping.
Didn't you just lump them into a group by saying that?
I'm not saying you're wrong about them.
I'm just saying if you can't handle a generalization without calling it an offensive stereotype .... which is what you just said ... you're kinda doing EXACTLY what they do when they accuse us of being racist.
You are a small fringe minority in that age group and you know it. You're lumped in that group because almost every boomer I know still gets their news exclusively from Fox and refuses to change. The stereotype is accurate. You and your friends are remote exceptions.
Truth hurts. The fee boomers here, which I am proud of for breaking the mold, are a tiny fringe of their demographic. The overwhelming majority are still asleep watch Fox. OP was correct. It's happening this way because the vast majority are still sheep. Especially the older gen. Trust me I work in service. I run into a hundred new people on average a week. Mostly conservative. Almost all of them watch Fox and only Fox.
"You're lumped into that group because every boomer I know..." That right there is what the other side does. "All blacks are XXX...", "all Latinos do XXX...", "all women...", etc.
Stereotype: an often unfair and untrue belief that many people have about a group of people with a particular characteristic. (Britannica)
I have news for you... Boomer here with boomer friends that are wide awake and are not Faux news devotees. There are more of me and my friends than you realize. Hell, my 84yo mother was more awake than some people here!
Again, you and your friends, which I am very proud of, are the fringe minority. My job puts in contact with a lot of new people every week. Mostly conservative. In your age group, 90+% are Fox sheep. This is about fours of experience too and it hasn't changed much in the last two. I run into very few boomers getting their news outside Fox and even fewer doing their own real research. It's a critical issue and if we act like it's not because you and your friends say it's not, we can't address it properly. Frankly, I'm sick of this group because many of them are dumb enough to turn on Trump because they're too thick to release that narrative is being feed to them by Fox.
Im not a boomer. Im gen x. Born 1965. And I am not a small fringe minority. This is the age group all of my friends are in. Our first Presidential vote was Reagan in 1984. Dont tell me what "I know" because you are freaking clueless about what I know, where I live, who I associate with and our life experiences.
You and your friends do not change the fact that the majority of conservatives in a certain age group overwhelmingly get their news from only one place. There are majorities and there are always exceptions. The existence of exceptions do not discount the majorities existence just as noting the obvious majority does not discount your experience.
Wrong. Im the same age as this guy and my circle of friends are all around the same age. Not one of us think like this guy. And everyone of us knows how to use a computer and read alternative media. Quit lumping people into groups. Thats what they do.
touche' in my 70s here and the part OP wrote about but glossed over is that coworker WILL VOTE FOR TRUMP. Now let's just get the MidTerms right so TRUMP can make Lasting Change.
Yeah but he still turned against Trump because he was too stupid to see Fox is as bad as CNN. If not worse. Now because this guy is a moron that refuses to turn off the TV all the deep state has to do is run a shiny RINO turd and he'll vote for him instead of Trump. How many morons around the country will fall for that because Fox convinced them Orange man bad? That could lead to splitting the votes of the party and losing an election. All due to idiots like this guy. That's the scenario they are priming and people are dumb enough to fall for it.
With Fox and the other mainstream media, a good saying is "with friends like that, who needs enemies?"
Wish I could have replied in time but since george Bush took all or most of my money in 2009 I still have to work. We cannot beat the news as Wilson taught the whole world that the press is controls the World we must live in it. What we can rely on is when EVERY ONE else falls only TRUMP the GEOTUS will remain standing.
Stereotyping people into groups is definitely something that's been indoctrinated into most people, myself and others here included. It's an easy option to group the minority as the whole -- it's also an even easier way to divide us.
Like you said: "Quit lumping people into groups." It's something I think we all need to work on.
When 5-6% of the population commits fully half the violent crime in the country...
Think you will find he is referring to the statement about people over 40 , maybe he is right, i am 58 and have been awake to what is going on for a long time. The first gulf war for me. Agree that it is mainly older people watching MSM though. Hard habits to break.
I am much older than you and haven't watched TV at all in years. I saw a couple in the store a few days ago piling tomatoes, tomato sauce, and tomato paste into their cart. I mentioned the crop failure in California, and they said they'd heard of it, and that's why they were stocking up. I see a lot of older people buying everything they can to stock up. One guy I talked to said he was clearing out a place to store plywood and lumber for future projects. He knows that lumber prices are now dropping.
Amen.
This.
Same
I wasn't saying ALL, it was a generalization based on people I know.
Didn't you just lump them into a group by saying that?
I'm not saying you're wrong about them.
I'm just saying if you can't handle a generalization without calling it an offensive stereotype .... which is what you just said ... you're kinda doing EXACTLY what they do when they accuse us of being racist.
You are a small fringe minority in that age group and you know it. You're lumped in that group because almost every boomer I know still gets their news exclusively from Fox and refuses to change. The stereotype is accurate. You and your friends are remote exceptions.
Do you even hear yourself? Ffs I thought we were learning to actually think in here. Catch up pup or be left behind.
Truth hurts. The fee boomers here, which I am proud of for breaking the mold, are a tiny fringe of their demographic. The overwhelming majority are still asleep watch Fox. OP was correct. It's happening this way because the vast majority are still sheep. Especially the older gen. Trust me I work in service. I run into a hundred new people on average a week. Mostly conservative. Almost all of them watch Fox and only Fox.
"You're lumped into that group because every boomer I know..." That right there is what the other side does. "All blacks are XXX...", "all Latinos do XXX...", "all women...", etc.
Stereotype: an often unfair and untrue belief that many people have about a group of people with a particular characteristic. (Britannica)
I have news for you... Boomer here with boomer friends that are wide awake and are not Faux news devotees. There are more of me and my friends than you realize. Hell, my 84yo mother was more awake than some people here!
Again, you and your friends, which I am very proud of, are the fringe minority. My job puts in contact with a lot of new people every week. Mostly conservative. In your age group, 90+% are Fox sheep. This is about fours of experience too and it hasn't changed much in the last two. I run into very few boomers getting their news outside Fox and even fewer doing their own real research. It's a critical issue and if we act like it's not because you and your friends say it's not, we can't address it properly. Frankly, I'm sick of this group because many of them are dumb enough to turn on Trump because they're too thick to release that narrative is being feed to them by Fox.
"Stereotype" - an inconvenient truth.
Im not a boomer. Im gen x. Born 1965. And I am not a small fringe minority. This is the age group all of my friends are in. Our first Presidential vote was Reagan in 1984. Dont tell me what "I know" because you are freaking clueless about what I know, where I live, who I associate with and our life experiences.
You and your friends do not change the fact that the majority of conservatives in a certain age group overwhelmingly get their news from only one place. There are majorities and there are always exceptions. The existence of exceptions do not discount the majorities existence just as noting the obvious majority does not discount your experience.