Also Millenials’ and Gen Alpha’s. Once again Gen X doing all the heavy cultural lifting.
(Edit: go on then, you name a 20yo skateboarder that most people outside the sport have heard of)
(Second edit: yeesh, I retract my statement! It was a post about a skateboarder having a long career, not a calculated attack on everyone under 45, put the pitchforks away already)
That has always struck me as a bad hot take.
One of my closeted racist family members love to ask “Who is Africa’s Leonardo da Vinci ?” to make some sort of claim to both his da Vinci’s genius and the implied lack of genius to Africans.
And the answer is Leonardo da Vinci is Africa’s Leonardo da Vinci … and the only people trying to say otherwise is people trying to profit off of making up a difference.
So I guess that I get it but also it is … I just think that it is a bad take.
Fuck me, all I said was there’s no culturally significant skateboarders coming up any more and you’re bringing a whole racism thing into it. Chill the fuck out dude
First time?
> Accuses every generation after theirs of being useless
> Gets pissy and defensive when their bad logic is pointed out
No one called you racist, bud, but clutch those pearls.
The guy compares my post to White supremacist rhetoric and I’m the one clutching pearls? lol
I know he didn’t call me racist. I said he brought racism into it, like as though it was anything like on the same level and not a ludicrous pearl-clutching analogy. Also “accuses every generation of being useless” is a way OTT characterization that you’ve inferred solely so that you can have something to get mad at. It was a lighthearted showerthought about a skateboarder.
Yup, still are, ignoring the point of the comment in favor of the “ludicrous” context of their anecdote. “It’s just a joke” is also a poor, worn out excuse to discredit criticism.
Oh wait I see, you’re in training for when they add Extreme High Horse Riding to the X-Games. Careful you don’t fall off.
Nobody was calling you a racist but if it’s that upsetting that someone pointed out that your
tactics arelogic is similar that’s on you.Edit: tactics is unnecessarily accusatory and that wasn’t my intent and I don’t think it was the original commenters intent either. Changed “tactics” to “logic.”
“your tactics” is still like, several notches above a sane take on what OP actually posted. This is not a remotely problematic post, at least not in the sense you guys are implying.
You’re right, tactics is accusatory when it shouldn’t be. There’s no evidence of motive or intent. Let’s call it “your logic” instead.