When old people complain about the world

To be fair, the generation in its 70s and 80s now is the children of that generation, so if you meet an octogenarian, he or she (okay, probably she) more likely protested against the Vietnam war than for school segregation.

Pick up a history book sometime. The people protesting the war were beaten in the streets and thrown in jail. That isn't something that happens to the majority. Nice attempt at rewriting history though!

They were teens and twenties then -- the people who were clinging to the old order were people who WERE older. If in 1962 you were a 30-something, poorly-educated white person who felt threatened by desegregation, you'd be 90-something now.

We made the progress that we did because people who were minorities organized and spoke up, but also because of generational change. The baby boomers (as cringe as they sometimes are) moved the dial.

Check this guy out:

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/25/1020501110/bob-moses-1960s-sncc-civil-rights-leader-math-educator-dies-at-86

He was actually a little too old to be a baby boomer.

You know who else was a part of that generation? Every cop who beat the protesters and every politician who called the national guard on them.

Looks like I found at least one overly sensitive boomer still clinging on.

My point is, you're not seeing the generational differences among people older than you . . . a dangerous lack of perspective. The cops and authorities beating protestors in 1964 WERE NOT boomers (the very oldest boomers turned 18 that year).